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A Python based dashboard for the Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software. For continued development, please see http://github.com/rcos/observatory
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Move "Talks" to "Guest Lectures" and post student project slides on "Talks"! #43

Open daviddoria opened 13 years ago

daviddoria commented 13 years ago

We must post all of the student project slides. These should go on the Talks page. The external speakers we have should go on a separate "Guest Lectures" page.

colinsullivan commented 13 years ago

What about a page for "Project Presentations", and then keep the same "Talks" page.

My rational is, although I think it is important to post the project presentations, I think the stuff on this "Talks" page will be more interesting than people's progress presentations.

daviddoria commented 13 years ago

So that's just the reverse of what I said, right? Sounds good to me.

Talks: External speakers + talks by RCOS students with real subjects (like Colin's goal setting) etc. Project presentations: student project updates (normal weekly RCOS meeting presentations)

Something like that?

Could we even automate this process of submitting the project update slides? Have a form which asks for your group name, the date of the presentation, and the file you want to upload?

mskmoorthy commented 13 years ago

Will the students blogs contain their presentation slides? (as it is currently done or supposed to be done). I am afraid with so many requirements, creativity is getting a back seat (at least in my perception) - If majority feels this way, my concerns can be over-ruled

daviddoria commented 13 years ago

I don't think any outside person will ever want to look at a project's blog. They should be able to see what has been going on all in one place. This literally takes 2 minutes to do 3x per semester - I don't think 6 minutes is too much to ask!

colinsullivan commented 13 years ago

hmm yea that is true, the slides will already be on the "posts" section, because groups will post their talks/slides on their blog.

colinsullivan commented 13 years ago

I agree that they should be able to see what has been going on in one place, but I feel like that is what the "Projects" and "Posts" section is for.

daviddoria commented 13 years ago

You really have to hunt for them though. In fact, I was only able to find Cihan's presentation at first glance. These should really be aggregated somewhere so they are easy to follow. Each project should have a clear "1st presentation", "2nd presentation", "Final presentation" so we can easy go back and see what happened between each.

colinsullivan commented 13 years ago

What about an option in Observatory to "mark" your posts as "Presentation posts". Then this link on the sidebar would just display the aggregated items, and people wouldn't have to input any more information if they post it on their blog.

daviddoria commented 13 years ago

Sure. Any system to collect all of the presentations in one place sounds like a good first pass.

mskmoorthy commented 13 years ago

Cihan's presentation slides are on my weekly blog - so proves no one is reading anything - no matter where it is kept! http://rcosblogbymsk.blogspot.com/2011/02/week-2-spring-2011-242011.html - I included my blog in observatory too!

daviddoria commented 13 years ago

But Moorthy, how would someone not in RCOS know that your blog is the only place to go to see the summary information?

This part:

This week we had talks by

1) Cihan Caglayan 2) Joe Dougherty and Tom Rozanski 3) Peter Hajas 4) Matt Arsenault 5) Tim Horton

is great, but should be somewhere besides your blog, and each of those names should include the project name and the link to their presentation slides.