Promote Ubuntu-be Events on Website

• Objective: Promote events organized or endorsed by Ubuntu-be on the Drupal Website.

• Launchpad Entry: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu-belgium/+spec/website-events

• Created: 2009-03-23 by PierreBuyle

• Contributors: PierreBuyle

User Stories (sorted by priority)

Must Have

• As a visitor of the website, I want to access to the list of upcoming events presented as a traditional calendar view so that I can quickly see what's happening soon.

• As a visitor of the website, I want to know where, when and by whom an event is organized.
• As a visitor of the website, I want to access information about an event in Dutch, English, French or German.
• As an Ubuntu-be member, I want to add information about an upcoming event to the website so that visitor will be aware of the event.
• As an Ubuntu-be member, I want to edit or delete the information about an event I added earlier.
• As an Ubuntu-be Web Editor, I want to add, edit or delete information about any events.

Nice to Have

• As an Ubuntu-be member, when adding an event, I want the option to automatically link to a wiki page for working on the event organisation (and have a quick link to create a new page based on a template).
• As an Ubuntu-be member, I want to allow other Ubuntu-be members to edit or delete the information about an event I added earlier.
• As an Ubuntu-be member, I want to assert my availability to help with the organization of an announced event.
• As a visitor of the website, I want to assert my intention to attend to an announced event.
• As a visitor, I want to publish report about a past event (possibly with pictures) so that everybody can see how great it was.
• As a visitor, when accessing information about an event, I want to see its location on a map with quick access to instruction on how to get there.
• As a visitor, I want to access the list of upcoming events presented on a single map.

Glossary

• Event: Any event related to Ubuntu/Linux/FOSS in Belgium (or near).

• Ubuntu-be member: Any member of the Belgian Ubuntu team.

• Ubuntu-be Web Editor: Any member of the Ubuntu-be.org Web Editors team.

Discussion

• There is no requirement that the submitter of an event is also its organizer. Actually, it's expected that many events will be added by a reduced team of volunteers acting as relay for events announced on mailing lists, LUGs, direct email, etc.

• Must Have User Stories are the features we want to see implemented before considering the work has done. Others are like bonuses, no required but nice to have.

Approach

• Base features

  • The Date and Calendar.

  • Or the event module. There is no current stable release but Ubuntu South Dakota uses a development snapshot without any major issue.

  • A content type for events with fields for

    • Organizer
    • Location
    • start and end date/time
    • the kind of event (taxonomy ?)

    • Use body to describe the event

• Attendees using the signup module visitors can register to nodes (events are nodes).

• Helpers
  • how ?
• Reports
  • On the website:

    • Create a second content-type for report

    • Use a field to link a report to the event, and vice-versa
    • Allow pictures upload for this content-type
  • On the wiki
    • Auto-generate a link to an event report page on the wiki