Pages for previous events

[wvengen]

It would be nice to be able to see previous events. A button for this was planned to the left of the central box on the frontpage.

A page for each camp can be found in the events folder. There are some stubs at

• http://collab.camp/events/collabcamp-paris-2015
• http://collab.camp/events/collabcamp-amsterdam-2014

Let's add other content!

• Background image
• Description (content of the page - or can that be retrieved from Facebook?)
• Facebook event (link to it with nice icon)
• Google drive folder (embed and/or link to it with nice icon)
• ...
• Link from frontpage

[dahacouk]

This is great work @wvengen – I love the individual event pages, the maps and the Google drive folders – great ideas. I'm wondering about URL names and titles for these pages:

• Do we want the folder/directory to be named events (rather than camps) so we can be a bit more generic about what we put in there in the future? And also it kind of fits with what might expect this folder to be called...?
• The naming off these events has been a... err... journey – best to take a look at the CollabCamp Manual. So we name events as in the example Collaboration Lab Camp Amsterdam 2014. Using that form it doesn't expand to more than one camp per city per year – but we could always add a month word if we get lucky and this spreads. 😀
• And now to the URLs of the actual pages. Is there something in SEO-land about the URL matching the title? I've only played around with creating pages in the wiki so we've not had much prior discussion about URLs but I think it would be nice for title/URL matching like this?

Cheers!

[wvengen]

Thanks! I've been so free as to do the first two things.

SEO-friendly URLs were a bit harder though. I've tried to

• use the full name in events/ - filenames are truncated in web-views (like browsing through Github), all are called something like "collaboration-camp-...", which is quite impratical.
• Jekyll supports using custom permalinks, but that seems to be introduced in version 3.0, while Github uses 2.4.0 right now (perhaps Github will upgrade when 3.0 is released, which may be around the corner).

So I suggest to have not-so-seo-friendly URLs for now, and revisit this in a week or six.

[chozabu]

I added a button with links to previous pages: #10 criticism encouraged!

[dahacouk]

Hey @wvengen, given that we only have 2 events so far, and given that I've only heard of one or two other camps possibly being organised this year, there won't be many event pages too soon. So would the confusion caused be that much of an issue in web view? I'm assuming if you mouse over the link then you see the full URL/title?

Also, I'm concerned about changing URLs along the way. Or people starting to link to old URLs. Best to get the correct URLs from the start even if there's a little hit on instant clarity in the web view. Yeah?

• Can we do a test? Create a third event as a copy of one of the current ones but with full URL? And see how it goes?

[wvengen]

Regarding URLs - oops, I agree, let's use the full names right away. How could I forget? :o
I'll rename them, then have a look. They're not yet linked from the homepage anyway, so we can (still) experiment to our hearts' content.

[wvengen]

I do suggest that we name them collaboration-lab-camp-2015-04-paris.md and such, so that they are ordered by date. The page title can still be the canonical "Collaboration Lab Camp Paris 2015". Including the month makes sure that we can have multiple events in the same city in a year.

[dahacouk]

Hi @wvengen, here's my thinking... The URL just needs to be unique and good for SEO – i.e. matching URL/title. We don't need them to be listed in date order by an alphabetical sort – do we? I challenge you – and I know this is a hard thought for sysadmins used to a CLI 😀 – not to put any other human readable metadata in the URL that is not absolutely necessary. If we get more than 2 events in the same city in the same year then let's disambiguate with a month (for that case) but let's not do that if there's no need, yeah?

Also, I'm guess that ditching the .html is not possible with this setup?

[chozabu]

looking at jekyll/jekyll#156 - it seems we can add

permalink: pretty

in our _config.yml which lets us use

collab.camp/our-custom-page/

instead of

collab.camp/our-custom-page.html

by generating a folder with the name of the page containing an index.html with the content, rather than just putting the content in a named html file.

Though, I'm not sure I prefer a trailing slash to .html ?

[chozabu]

Hey - a little more reading - github may already support just not entering the .html extension!

[chozabu]

Confirmed: http://collab.camp/events/collaboration-lab-camp-2015-05-paris works - no changes needed! (unless someone changed something in the last 40 mins)

[dahacouk]

Cool stuff! So now I've just got to convince you guys to have title=URL and I'll be a happy OCD bunny! ;-)

[dahacouk]

A little nudge? Can we have event pages with URLs like:

• http://collab.camp/events/collaboration-lab-camp-paris-2015
• http://collab.camp/events/collaboration-lab-camp-amsterdam-2014

Hmm?...

[dahacouk]

Just so you know I've change the naming of events and URLs to be:

• http://collab.camp/events/collabcamp-paris-2016
• http://collab.camp/events/collabcamp-paris-2015
• http://collab.camp/events/collabcamp-amsterdam-2014

[dahacouk]

Now! ;-) How can we make a listing for past and future events at http://collab.camp/events ? @wvengen @chozabu @mozboz @almereyda ? Thanks!