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Re: events reports



Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> * Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> [2002-12-20 22:27]:
> > Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> >>  I know that reports for the events are a good thing.  Unfortunately
> >> they are not promoted correctly.  So I thought why not adding links to
> >> them from the events overview pages directly?
> > 
> > I don't understand.  Could you explain a little bit more verbose?
> 
>  I think a link next to the event entry in the overview list to the
> report for that event would help people to actually _notice_ that there
> is a report.  Currently they have to guess if there is a report
> somewhere, go into that event page and find the link.
> 
>  What I am willing to change is to have a link right in the overview
> page like on <http://www.debian.org/events/2002/> and e.g.:
> 
> [January 30th - February 1st] LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, New York, USA -- Report

Great!  Please modify the relevant files.  Reports are named
mmnn-event-report.wml by me, so that pattern can easily be recognized.

>  That Report at the end should be a gettext string and a link to the
> report directly.  This change will also change the layout of the single
> pages slightly because the report must be handled differently and not be
> included in the further links anymore.  Having it at the top with the
> other information is a good idea imho.

Why?

With a similar mechanism the report could be added to non-report
event pages, though.  That would be helpful as well.

Regards,

	Joey

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