[CoLoCo] Please respond directly to Jim - Re: Hardy Party RSVP MegaMail

[Neal McBurnett]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 11:51:08AM -0600, David Overcash wrote:

> We really should hack together a quick and easy web-form to
> implement into our website so that users can RSVP by entering their
> name, email address, and that they are attending.  We could just
> throw it to a big page.  And that's a heck of a lot easier than
> using a wiki for most people.  I know wiki pages are ideal (hell, I
> think they are the greatest thing to ever happen to online
> communities and development groups, absolutely ideal for
> collaboration), but they can have a bit of a learning curve.
> 
> If Nick sets up a quick and easy mysql database for me I can throw
> together a simple php script to update the database and view the
> current list of attendees.

Folks use so many names and handles, and sometimes I only know them by
one of those handles, so I'd also like to see people's nicks, wiki
pages, and launchpad ids so I can be reminded what they look like.
And also notes on what they want to do at the party.

That is relatively easy to do with the wiki, even if folks don't have
many of those fields.

A common complication with this sort of thing is authentication and
dealing with spam.  We don't want folks to have to remember yet more
sites, login ids, passwords, etc.  Or for spammers to add links to
their nastiness. The nice thing about the wiki is that it is already
integrated with launchpad, so folks can use the same info to
authenticate there, and spam is already dealt with in various ways.

Thankfully we're getting closer to a new option, as the much-heralded
openid integration of launchpad is "real close", so that we could
allow launchpad logins on our own web site to allow updates to the
info.

 https://help.launchpad.net/OpenID

But again we might well want to allow anyone who logs in to update
information for others, e.g. visitors who may not even have a
launchpad page.

-Neal

> -David
> 
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:27 AM, siblog <tehsiblog at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     I would prefer we keep the page that Mitch setup updated with all attendees
>     if at all possible. You can also or alternatively send an email directly to
>     me and I will keep track of attendees.
> 
>     Regardless I booked the room for 40+ so lets try to round up as many people
>     as possible. Please drag along significant others, friends, kids,
>     co-workers, etc. The bigger the crowd the better we look. I also remember
>     that there was a lot of enthusiasm earlier on and now I have not seen much,
>     so I hope to hear from some more members soon ;-)
> 
>     -Simon
> 
>     On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org>
>     wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>         On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Neal McBurnett <neal at bcn.boulder.co.us
>         > wrote:
> 
> 
>             So I hope Jim is willing to summarize results, and that people are
>             willing to respond directly to Jim with their plans, rather than
>             writing to the whole list.
> 
> 
>         Was mainly thinking of Siblog as he is the one making the reservation.
>          
> 
>             Alternatively, it would seem even better to make a wiki page to
>             represent the attendance, so anyone can sign up, modify and/or
>             check
>             any time.
> 
> 
>         Already done (was mentioned in the previous thread). Thanks Mitch.
>         https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ColoradoTeam/HardyReleaseParty
> 
>         And for the email list challenged, you can get a free ubuntu-rocks
>         email address (I think Joey is still setting these up but not sure).
>         It's gmail and works great at keeping threads in ONE message no matter
>         how many replies. You can set up all your Ubuntu or whatever mail to go
>         to this address and ignore it when you want to and not have it fill up
>         your regular inbox. The digest would be another option.
> 
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