Website Calendar Discussions

Leaving asside the fact that I'm not sure a scrolling ticker is the best way to present the info the concept is most certainly sound and it is a good idea. It woudl of course be dependent on the clubs submitting thier data but it is something I have been planning.

Then why not have it like an ad banner? One person (I volunteer) can do a Flash banner, 2 or 3 rotations, for what is coming up, OR keeps changing it to the next single event - that means probably updating it every couple of days, which isn't a problem.

Seanie.

Events can be listed in-depth on this page, but not at length i.e. only whats coming up (in detail), and not the list of meetings for the year! (the link to this could also be the ad banner I previously mentioned)

Seanie.

It would be literalty the next club meeting/date/title and location, no massive list of yearly stuff.

This would show that the IFAS is pushing the individual clubs, afterall, IFAS exists to give all the clubs a single strong voice.

I do see one problem, changing it the END of the month might not be the way to go about it. If you think of it, most of the clubs meetings are sometime in the first week of each month, not much notice there, so maybe update the entire table monthly in the second week.

If a club does not send you info to put in, that is their loss.

I do see one problem, changing it the END of the month might not be the way to go about it. If you think of it, most of the clubs meetings are sometime in the first week of each month, not much notice there, so maybe update the entire table monthly in the second week.

If a club does not send you info to put in, that is their loss.

I am not implying a monthly set up at all, as this would not suit clubs that have 2 meetings per month. I'm proposing that PERHAPS one person keeps that page updated by requesting the information from each club, or each club giving that person the information. If there is no info, there will only be a blank space. This includes maintaining an ad banner on the front page too.

The other option is that club reps themselves 'log in' and add the details to an events listing themselves.

Was there discussoin before of a feature about entries timing out, or being automatically removed after a certain timeframe to be added?

Fair enough Seanie,
If one person was to be in total change of it, and say it was you for example, would you be prepared to keep it uptodate and a weekly basis.
Whatever is decided on, I'd just be afraid of lumping alot work on someone, but if they were happy with that, then that would be fine.

Having a centralised controller seems more practical to me.

I dont think a auto timeout system would work with some clubs meeting every 4 weeks while others meet every 2 week, unless you can specify a timeout length per note...

Fair enough Seanie,
If one person was to be in total change of it, and say it was you for example, would you be prepared to keep it uptodate and a weekly basis.
Whatever is decided on, I'd just be afraid of lumping alot work on someone, but if they were happy with that, then that would be fine.

Having a centralised controller seems more practical to me, any thoughts.

Perhaps I'm missing something... But cant we just have a form on the site where people can include events? This can be for any amount of time in the future, and take into account monthly meetings.

This goes into a database, and magically comes back out again in the Clubs listing page/calendar/scrollbar etc. All autogenerated.

We shouldnt need anyone to control it, though perhaps someone to pester people to update it might have merit!

Cheers,
~Al

Fair enough Seanie,
If one person was to be in total change of it, and say it was you for example, would you be prepared to keep it uptodate and a weekly basis.
Whatever is decided on, I'd just be afraid of lumping alot work on someone, but if they were happy with that, then that would be fine.

Then it would have to be someone who is willing to put in the time. Yeah, I could volunteer for such a position, IF it arose. It would just have to fall upon a person that spends enough time on these boards to make changes as they arise to that section.

S.