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bettermtl / bettermtl.github.io

Community-sourced crowdsourced (wiki) information gatherer, factchecker, inviter, connector. Who, where, when, which interests.
http://bettermtl.com
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Curate 6w worth of events #2

Open pcuci opened 8 years ago

pcuci commented 8 years ago

Show what the platform is capable of when used by a fantastic community

pcuci commented 8 years ago

I added new activities, need the copy updated.

Please use bettermtl.com as golden copy, I'll copy text from here to meetup/eventbrite/facebook @David-Ro

pcuci commented 8 years ago

Added the prototyping workshops (in English only), need translation: http://bettermtl.com

@David-Ro - which other tech communities should we bootstrap with?

Tech meetups, hackathons, other startup/networking events?

I need more real activities listed to start seeing patterns between all of them, maybe we can normalize some data so it's shared between events/translations, or other non-easily seen structural elements that only surface with more content.

David-Ro commented 8 years ago

I'm going to change the label name of places by pre-pending or pre- positioning a particle, so that the order of displaying places to newbie viewer fits our current model and needs

pcuci commented 8 years ago

@David-Ro describe what you want first, pre-pending while disregarding the logic of front-matter will only complicate things, better to normalize data if this is core feature

David-Ro commented 8 years ago 
                                                                                  I want the display / sort to follow a logic, other than alphabetical. So, geographic sort is a better beginning, to show this in April and May 2016. So, maybe we need a new item in addition to the one now (not shown to the public)  currently used to create the sort.  (Geofenced sites can be made separately, each with a separate name, separate identity, separate existence. Yes they are good experiments). I've seen you put two pieces of data into a single field and call it normalized. So, I can prepend in order to have the display order that I want to show to our current crowd who are all Plateau and downtown. Notman House must be first of the list or else we have to make a new site (name, identity, existence) for all our recurring dealings with the #hackthehouse crowd in the upcoming ioT integration season.  Makes sense ? 
pcuci commented 8 years ago

put two pieces of data into a single field and call it normalized.

That's incorrect. Duplicating data on purpose is to de-normalize with good reasons (e.g.: data consistency, performance considerations).

Easier to add another front-matter data element, call it sort_order or priority_no or vip_number, and we can sort the locations accordingly. Keep concerns separate: order of display has nothing to do with address of location; therefore we split. We normalize the data.

David-Ro commented 8 years ago 
                                                                                  Screen_display_order ok