A request for trainings on gdo/la

Events happening in the community are now at Drupal community events on www.drupal.org.
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Posted by Techivist on August 2, 2011 at 11:31pm

Howdy fellow LA Drupaleros!

This is something I've been thinking for a while & feel like I should formally make a request. A discussion regarding what others in the community feel/want is encouraged.

Can we separate Trainings out from Events on gdo/la, please?

I sincerely believe that the rise in Trainings is a GREAT sign for the Drupal community. It means there are more people interested in Drupal as more & more join the community each day. Word on the street is that there are still more Drupal jobs than folks able to fill them so trainings are a great way to ramp-up your knowledge (as are attending the many meetups available here in LA, DrupalCampLA coming up this weekend, etc.). However, it seems that the Events feed here on gdo/la gets inundated with Trainings & drowns out the Events feed which is for the many meetups in & around LA, Drupal After Darks, Drupal Cafe sessions, etc.

In no way am I trying to offend anyone or minimize anyone's work (or cause a political dust-up) so I hope noone takes offense. Maybe there could be a Trainings block added below/around the Events block on gdo/la? It just feels like a separate Trainings tab would be best for the community in order to avoid/minimize confusion & to reduce the 'signal-to-noise ratio' (for lack of a better term as I don't consider trainings 'noise').

What do others think?

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I looked into listing trainings

Posted by christefano on August 3, 2011 at 3:03am
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I looked into listing trainings on the community calendar page at http://groups.drupal.org/la separately from community events, but all the views that available to OG admins show event nodes in order of postdate, not event date. The only exception is the "upcoming events" view that we have now but that view can't be filtered by taxonomy terms...

Until more views displays are made available to OG admins, I propose using Drupal core's RSS feeds for taxonomy term listings. I created the "event type" vocabulary last year just for this purpose. Admittedly, this doesn't help at all unless you use an RSS reader to view these feeds.

So, here's a feed just for paid trainings:

   http://groups.drupal.org/taxonomy/term/25439/0/feed

Here's a feed for all event types other than trainings:

   http://groups.drupal.org/taxonomy/term/21483+21488+25444+25449+23023+254...

Custom RSS feeds can be created that include more than one kind of event by combining multiple taxonomy term IDs in the URL (i.e. Meetups and Drupal After Darks at http://groups.drupal.org/taxonomy/term/25434+21488/0/feed or Conferences and Trainings at http://groups.drupal.org/taxonomy/term/25444+25439/0/feed).

I've updated the community calendar page at http://groups.drupal.org/la/events with this info. This is all I have time for right now, but it would be great to hear if you think anything else needs to be done.

Of course, I think it would help if there were more OG admins who could work on this. Five hands went up at the organizers meetup last weekend when the question of who wants to be an OG admin of the LA Drupal group was asked, but we don't have a process yet for deciding who becomes an OG admin and who does the deciding.

Thanks for adding that info

Posted by Techivist on August 4, 2011 at 5:27pm
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Thanks for adding that info into the LA Events page, Christefano!!! I hear ya on not being able to do much more but it's a great start. I put this out there more to have a discussion (as well as the request) of what others felt- if noone else feels it's an issue then I'm in the minority & this isn't needed, I guess. It's just that I suspect most gdo/la users are like myself & don't use the RSS feeds, rather, just get the notifications that's inherent to gdo as a whole. But I could be wrong (won't be the 1st or last time, haha).

While I wasn't at the Organizers meetup (& really wanted to attend), I'd like to virtually raise my hand to help out. After all, it benefits the entire LA Drupal community & as many already know, I'm ALL about community. I understand there isn't a process yet for deciding who becomes an OG admin & who does the deciding but those discussions have already started on the many LA Drupal Governance threads with many great ideas being contributed by many community members. I expect those things to get hashed out sooner rather than later.

Thx again!

Miguel Hernandez - www.migshouse.com
Founder & CEO - The OpenMindz Group
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