[EuroPython] proposals for the webpage

[Paul Boddie]

On Monday 15 May 2006 13:02, Benedikt Hegner wrote:
>
> I had a look at the website. It is a little bit confusing.
> I have the following idea for Tracks&Talks to make it a little bit
> more structered:
>
> Is it possible to reduce this part by one Level? The information on
> "Call for Proposals" could be put directly on Tracks&Talks or the
> link renamed . "Call for Abstracts" should be deleted completely.

I tried to make a bit more sense out of this page during the weekend, but Dave 
mentioned that the call for abstracts did seem to take the user on a tour of 
many different pages, and I personally don't like the terms "proposal" and 
"abstract": you're either submitting a paper or a talk, although it's a bit 
late for the former, now.

> What about a more direct link to the programme once it is fixed.

If you follow the "conference timetable" you get to see the talk slots, but 
perhaps "conference programme" confuses this.

> One click and you are there. At the moment you have to follow too many
> links. :-(
> And maybe a link like "Propose a talk" should be on top of the
> Tracks&Talks page.
>
> Any comments and ideas?

I propose...

  * Removing the "Call for Abstracts" link (and section?).
  * Adding some text about proposing talks at the top of the page,
    linking to the "Call for Proposals" section but not necessarily
    using that label: "Propose a talk" is better. When talk
    submission is closed, we can change this section to mention
    this.
  * Changing the "conference programme" link to refer to "tracks"
    or "topics". Since the track descriptions are on the proposals/
    talks page, we could link to that instead of the Indico version.
  * Changing the last part to be about the conference timetable,
    noting that this isn't finalised yet.

It would be nice to have the date for the selection of talks in that list of 
deadlines, too.

Paul

P.S. If no-one has any objections, I'll make the above changes in a short 
while - I have some other errands to run first. :-)

P.P.S. If there's a way of pushing out published changes to the site via RSS, 
that would be interesting to know about. And when registration opens, we 
really want a comp.lang.python.announce message to be sent out, too.