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dancerfly / django-brambling

Event website manager, specifically designed for dance weekends or other events with multiple simultaneous tracks of classes.
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Rides #194

Open harrislapiroff opened 10 years ago

harrislapiroff commented 10 years ago

Should we offer ride coordinator functionality, too? It's somewhat analogous to housing stuff and it actually does seem strange to me to have one and not the other.

harrislapiroff commented 10 years ago

Dupe of #56

harrislapiroff commented 10 years ago

Not a duplicate. #56 is about rides to and from specific event activities. I'm talking about rides to the city of the event.

harrislapiroff commented 10 years ago

This doesn't necessarily need to be as fleshed out as housing. Two fields on attendees ride_status (with choices NEED, HAVE, OFFER or similar), and city should cover it. We could add an additional "ride board" functionality later if we're feeling ambitious.

harrislapiroff commented 8 years ago

Here's an example of an org ad hocking a solution to this problem: https://sites.google.com/a/oberlin.edu/dandelionromp/home

It could be as simple as providing a rideboard like that where people can post information. I think even having it integrated into the same tool as registration would make it more likely to be used and therefore easier for organizers. Might be worth doing some research with people who have done rides coordination for events, though.

melinath commented 8 years ago

(Basically it's just a simple google spreadsheet.) +1 that something this simple could probably be easy for people to use, and could be great if we implemented it right. Big +1 on doing research. I'd love to treat this similar to housing; if the redesigned checkout process & form management interfaces could accommodate this kind of thing it would be great.

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harrislapiroff commented 8 years ago

Yeah. With both this and housing, I'm increasingly interested in the idea of separating them from the registration process. Like maybe you do your registration and pay and then you get access to an "attendees area" where you can do things like request housing, arrange rides, maybe someday socialize with other attendees pre-event...

But yeah, research would be good.

melinath commented 8 years ago

I think that for housing and rides we would probably still want to include them in the registration process so that people who needed it didn't miss it, BUT also have a very clear way to update your status post-registration.

melinath commented 8 years ago

Talked with an organizer this weekend who was also really into the idea of ride share handling, even if it were really simple. Their take: Right now people are trying to do it anyway inside the Facebook event, and it's a pain in the ass and doesn't work very well.