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   Re: [dita-fa-edboard] News/Announcements Content Requirements

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I think it would be unfortunate it the events page did not handle 
recurring events. If that's really the case, we may want to point people 
to the event calendar on ditamap.com for such things 
(http://www.ditamap.com/calendar.php).

...scott


Jerry Silver wrote:

>We're pretty dependent on the basic capabilities of Drupal, and I don't
>think it can handle recurring events.
>
>Also, don't forget that this is a community site.  It will ultimately be
>up to the posters to decide the best place for their content.  Your
>distinction is correct (something you can attend defines an event,
>everything else is news/announcements), and we should clearly make this
>distinction on the intro page.    But I can certainly see events being
>cross-posted to both lists, and at the end of the day we can't be too
>fussy about how the community is using the site, unless someone is
>wilfully abusing it.
>
>J.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jennifer Linton [mailto:jennifer.linton@comtech-serv.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 10:02 AM
>To: Scott Prentice; Jerry Silver
>Cc: dita-fa-edboard@lists.xml.org
>Subject: RE: [dita-fa-edboard] News/Announcements Content Requirements
>
>I agree that the CMS conference is an event. I think that anything that
>is news related includes announcements like press releases or any
>information that goes along with OASIS announcements about DITA and
>anything about the open toolkit or other products.
>
>I think they should definitely handle recurring events.
>Jen
>
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>Jen Linton
>Comtech Services, Inc.
>Senior Consultant and Web Manager
>710 Kipling St. Suite 400
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott Prentice [mailto:sp@leximation.com]
>Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 10:45 AM
>To: Jerry Silver
>Cc: dita-fa-edboard@lists.xml.org
>Subject: Re: [dita-fa-edboard] News/Announcements Content Requirements
>
>Sorry to be responding so late to this ..
>
>- What determines the difference between an event and a
>news/announcement item? In looking at the examples, I'd think that the
>CM Strategies Conference would be an event. It seems like we'd need to
>clearly define what type of items go on each list. I'd think that
>anything that can be attended by a group of people is an event and
>anything else is news/announcement.
>
>- I'd set up both of these lists in the same chronological order, the
>mockups are reversed from each other.
>
>- Will the events page handle recurring events?
>
>...scott
>
>Scott Prentice
>Leximation, Inc.
>www.leximation.com
>+1.415.485.1892
>
>
>
>Jerry Silver wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Attached is an annotated mockup for the Focus Area News and 
>>Announcements page.
>> 
>>I'd like to see a new content type for DITA announcements.  The 
>>interaction model is:
>> 
>>1. Authenticated users enter new announcements, via a form.  To enter 
>>a new announcement, they click on the "Add New Announcement" link, 
>>which will be available on the News and Announcements page, and 
>>possibly in other locations on the site.
>> 
>>2. Authenticated users can edit or delete announcements they have 
>>submitted.  An authenticated user will be able to see all the 
>>announcements they have created, use the form to update an 
>>announcment, or select an announcement for deletion.
>> 
>>3. People looking for news/announcements visit a News/Announcements 
>>page, a dynamically generated page that lists all relevant
>>    
>>
>announcements.
>  
>
>> 
>>A few additional requirements:
>> 
>>1. The News and Announcements page should show up to two months of 
>>announcements (the current month and the previous month), in 
>>chronological order, grouped by month.
>> 
>>2. Older events should still be accessible via the News and 
>>Announcements Archive page.  This page should contain a link for each 
>>month; e.g. a link to December 2005, November 2005, etc.  These 
>>archived pages can be dynamically generated, but they must be 
>>crawlable by a search engine, so they should avoid parameters in the 
>>URL.  Question: can the News and Announcements Archive Page be 
>>dynamically generated to add a new link each month?
>> 
>>Regards,
>> 
>>Jerry
>> 
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