Add Event: Add Sessions

[danieldegroot2]

This is already possible in the description input box (with Markdown). It could also be simulated by a OSMCal Widgets feature.

Add Sessions to Add Event. Not the exact "minutes" of a meeting of course.

• Shown underneath Event Description, or Participants in the sidebar.
• Default collapsed or with shortened description (Allows to keep the page compact while allowing to elaborate on topics.)
• May or may not have its own share link
• Allow to edit sessions (more information may become available at a later date); may have a checkbox for TBA/TBD.
• Allow to duplicate sessions if there's multiple during the same event, or when there is a break in between.
• (Allow to specify milestones within sessions; for meetings, workshops, competitions)
• (Integration with OSMCal Widgets: Allows to specify layout etc., whether to show them on overview and/or detail page yes/no.)

Possible inputs:

• Date(s): to refer to other related events which are not series events; has an optional OSMCal ID field.
• Time(s); start and end times, or (estimated) duration for continuous sessions.
• Location; ie. (breakout) room
• Title
• Description (incl. accessibility, fee, maximum participants per group etc.)
• User(s) (speaker/discussion leader/trainer/contact/etc.); display name -- OSM name (with/without profile picture)
• (Job(s)/Activities)
• (Organization(s)/Group(s)); not intended for the community organizing the event of course.

Useful for all event types except conferences (and similarly large events), they should have a website or wiki page with their programme. Useful for Working Groups to some extent. There may be some limit to the number of sessions which can be added, eg. 10, 20. The user should be told this is the case.

(The registration form already allows for simple parallel session organization to some extent.)

[thomersch]

So as far as I understand, you suggest having a feature that enables organisers to create schedule listings for events, e.g. "Mapping Event X" has "Intro at 9:00", "Beginner Session at 10:00", "Advanced Session at 11:00", … Is this what you mean?

I think I would like to have something like this, and I think this could be useful to smaller or medium size events, like you say.

On the other hand, I am not sure how many people would really use this feature: With event descriptions and sign-up surveys I don't see much user pickup and I am a little afraid that this feature could share the same fate. I was hoping that organisers would shift to use OSMCAL more to present this information and link to it, but many use other resources to present that information: They either link to the OSM wiki, Eventbrite, Meetup or Facebook instead of entering the info into OSMCAL. To put it into numbers: We currently have 1314 events in the DB, but only 1119 participation entries. This means that events have a median of just one registered participant.

Maybe it makes sense that we think a bit about user behaviour and how they interact with OSMCAL. I have the impression that people are getting more familiar with OSMCAL and are starting to put more info into it (longer descriptions, more details etc). We should try to understand how we would need to communicate this feature and who would use it. Possibly we could also invest some time into understanding whether people really want to put more info into OSMCAL and not just use it as an aggregator.

Is this an idea that came from your concrete need, @danieldegroot2? If so, can you maybe give some more details on your personal use case?

[danieldegroot2]

It's a wish list item. The mapathons/livestreams we do with the OSM World Discord are rather flexible in when people do things.