Re: conference slides in wiki

On 04/28/2016 06:47 AM, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> Hi Alvaro,
>
>> On Apr 27, 2016, at 11:28 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com
>> <mailto:alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>> wrote:
>> I think this was ill-conceived.
>
> I take slight exception to this as I did research the upload solutions
> prior: I looked at the list of conferences with uploads
> (https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_Related_Slides_and_Presentations)
> and it appeared that each conference was still following suit with
> uploading the talks here, even after the "cool-off” period was added.

I think what Alvaro is saying is that the influx of talks has created a
burden for those who approve editing accounts. I think that is a
reasonable observation.
>
> Per a comment later in the thread, JD suggested that we can host slides
> on respective conference sites, which we can do on the PGConf US side
> with a small tweak to the site; however I do like the fact we have a
> giant community repository of talks & slides.

IMO, a page with links to the various conferences and the slides is much
more reasonable. .Org isn't really structured to handle such an influx
of this type of content and nor should it be.

JD

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