https://github.com/mattpolito/confed

Get educated via conference videos... all in one place
https://github.com/mattpolito/confed

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Get educated via conference videos... all in one place

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mattpolito/confed
• Owner: mattpolito
• Created: 2011-03-15T13:18:48.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-12-07T12:52:53.000Z (about 13 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-05T20:41:14.378Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Homepage: http://getconfed.com
• Size: 751 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README

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Conference Education

Development Environment Setup:

* Requires PostgreSQL database (full-text searching)

  - brew install postgres

    - follow homebrew instructions to initialize database

    - database.yml exmaple:

        development:

          adapter: postgresql

          host: localhost

          port: 5432

          database: confed_development

          schema_search_path: public

          encoding: utf8

        test:

          adapter: postgresql

          host: localhost

          port: 5432

          database: confed_test

          schema_search_path: public

          encoding: utf8

    - you need to build your initial indexes using:

        rake texticle:create_indexes

        - run this rake command anytime an index is added or the indexes change

Goal:

Have a main source for video/presentation slides of conferences

Ideas:

* Talk show page would ideally have video and slides embedded

  * Title, conference info, description of talk

  * Information on speaker

* Conference view would ideally have talks presented in order that they happened. 

* Speakers should be referenced throughout the site so that someone could pull up a specific speaker and see all presentations

* subdomains for conferences?

* allow a conference to style their scoped page

* speaker rating system... I believe there are already services for this, maybe we can take advantage of api

* searchable and/or tagging system

* if there is demand, a conference page could be created as a placeholder so only the video/slide content would need to be embedded when ready

* Is there any reason user group content would not fit into this service as well?

* What are the most used video services for conference videos?

  * Vimeo

  * Blip.tv

  * Viddler

* What are the most used slide sharing services

  * Slideshare

Obviously it will take some curation on our part at first, but hopefully it will provide a great service to many communities and people will want to add their content on their own