Re: conference slides in wiki

On 28 April 2016 at 10:31, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > On 04/27/2016 08:28 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > >
> > >I think this was ill-conceived. Back when everybody had editor
> > >privileges right at account creation and there was no "cool-off" period
> > >it was perfectly fine to have people add their own slides to the wiki,
> > >but with those two things it has now become a tremendous annoyance. I
> > >think we need to come up with a better system to handle the uploading of
> > >slides to the wiki.
> >
> > I think we should just leave it to the respective conference sites.
>
> Well, I don't like that as a solution, because conference sites can go
> down, lose files or whatever and the material becomes unavailable. Our
> wiki is reliable, backed up, monitored by the same people who runs all
> the rest of pg infrastructure -- all of which I like. I meant something
> like, can the conference organizer team request to have the slides
> emailed to them, and *they* upload to the wiki using a pre-existing

account.
>

Alternatively the conference organizers know in advance who is speaking.

Providing a list of names to enable on the wiki would be far easier than
individual requests.

OTOH, after a few conferences this will probably be a non-issue as most
people are repeat speakers.

Dave Cramer