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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