Make the Roll of Winners a dynamic page?

[burlexpo]

I'm envisioning an additional act status.

After The Main Event is concluded, someone with the right privileges can change a winning act from "Accepted" to "Winner" and bio and picture of the performer associated with that act will appear on a Roll of Winners page, grouped by the year of the performance.

[bethlakshmi]

Ooo! That's nifty!

• would I want the jumping off point to be the "act review" page (like where we rate and accept acts), or the act management page (where we set the order of acts in the show)? I don't think there's much of a difference work-wise, so it's really where it would be more intuitive for the tired conference producer.
  • inputs would be: select the act, and say what they won.
  • we won't get overly constrained in which show we all this... if for some reason you want to say that someone the Rhinestone Review was recognized for some award you made up on the fly ... have a blast. The system will trust the privileged user to be doing something good.

In the current state, the roll of winners is all Django CMS... how much of it should be our code?

I can think of two alternatives:

• make a plugin for django CMS:

  • let's us control the layout of all the years - if you don't like the accordion display, we can do something else.
  • let's you wrap anything you like into the year - for example, we have You Tube, words, tributes to particular legends or events... etc.
  • Negative - if the plugin has to be set up for each year, it would be easy to forget.

• move the display to be owned by our code completely

  • we set up exactly what we want for page display --- but it's hard to change
  • once the winners are set, they automatically load
  • it takes me some extra work to let you embed other context - just HTML text is pretty easy, I'd add a space in our conferences data and let you describe the conference there, and display it on the same page as the winners... but if you wanted to embed stuff with fancy javascript connections, that would be more work.

• Lastly, how do we backport old winners... the years that we were using this code base are easy -- I have all the data in the system still. The previous to the GBE rewrite, we COULD upload the data (or fake data) - for some years we don't have much of anything...