Potential improvements for 2022 Conference landing page about conference-website

[mcturco]

Hello 😄

I have an updated art direction for the Conference 2022 more specifically for the website. I believe the sponsors section we will have to hide until we have set sponsors, but other than that we should be able to add the rest of the sections right away.

Here is an image version of the design mock-up:

And here is a Figma Prototype that you can scroll through and click around in:
https://www.figma.com/proto/ldUyQL53HBoQjEqaC1QGRr/Conference-2022-Website?page-id=12%3A377&node-id=12%3A379&viewport=445%2C473%2C0.25&scaling=scale-down&starting-point-node-id=12%3A379

Would love to hear some feedback!

cc: @AceTheCreator @derberg

[magicmatatjahu]

@mcturco Holy s***!!! I envy that @AceTheCreator will implement it. Really awesome! ❤️

[magicmatatjahu]

@mcturco Great work (again 😄). I have some ideas to improve our conference website:

As we will have in a month (or 2) information who will attend with presentation maybe we should also have an additional section with the introduction of people who will be? It would also be a good idea to have a separate page for each person like /person/{} with a description of the person with social links and a description of the presentation. We could also create separate cards for each person and display them as og images (those images that appear in the preview when you paste a link into slack etc.). What about you think?

In addition, we will need a place for the schedule of our conference like last year - then we used some kind of app where we had a whole schedule given with dates and times and people could subscribe to that. It was an iframe but that is not a problem for me.

cc @derberg @AceTheCreator @alequetzalli

EDIT: I see that @AceTheCreator mentioned about that og cards in #101 issue. Sorry!

[AceTheCreator]

@mcturco this is really cool and I really fell in love with the architectural design you did 😀

[derberg]

@magicmatatjahu the schedule that comes from the scheduling app comes from Linux Foundation services, so it includes not only the schedule but also:

• info about presenters
• the ability to login (anyone) and set up a personal schedule of talks they want to attend
• and some other fancy stuff like rating talks for example

So whatever we wanna build in this area, we should make sure we do not duplicate data on our website, and do double-work but reuse what we have come from other sources. This is the source of the iframe from last year -> https://asyncapi2021.sched.com so you can explore there what can be iframed, like for example this view of speakers https://asyncapi2021.sched.com/directory/speakers

If you do not like iframe, then let's get rid of it in 2023, but it is too late as there are more important things to do, more useful for the conference, like the "ticket" generator for people that register, so it is easier for them to share on social media that they are attending

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Regarding subscribe functionality, @AceTheCreator keep in mind to not use initial solution with spreadsheet (the one we did for voting on the event) but talk to @fmvilas to get new segment in MailChimp, and he will also explain to you how using Netlify and Zapier he introduced "email subscription" in asyncapi.com

[alequetzalli]

I am def curious to see where this all goes, what a neat design for the site this year too!!

[derberg]

So when you register as a speaker, you are asked to provide all the data that you talk about. But yeah, these are not mandatory. This is why many speakers do not provide profile pictures. This is definitely ok to follow up with them to get it.

When LF gives us access to all proposals, they are in a form of a spreadsheet with all the info about the talk and the speaker, so we can grab data from there

[mcturco]

@derberg RIP. Haha, but I guess it is better than no data!

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[mcturco]

@AceTheCreator and I just had a great first meeting about some updates to the conference website ✨

• @mcturco to establish the art direction for the 2022 conference and provide a design mockup for the landing page
• Explore the idea: How can we use events and AsyncAPI specification as an interactive element on this website? Ex: Perhaps each speaker has an assigned channel that attendees may choose to subscribe to and the speaker publishes events such as "My talk is starting in 10 minutes, join live now!" or something similar
• Speaker card generator: Perhaps on the website we would have a form-based generator where someone can upload their avatar and enter their details and be able to download a speaker card image to share on socials.
• Wondering if we could customize the design for the conference agenda instead of using an iframe from the tool that we use. Do they have an API that we could use to retrieve the agenda and output it in our own application?

[magicmatatjahu]

Nice, I knew that this app showed the whole schedule but i didn't know that also the speakers. Ok then my previous comment is probably not valid.

[mcturco]

@magicmatatjahu Yeah, we did have this idea, as you mentioned in your edit, but we were wondering how we could automate this process as much as possible. If we are using that app where the speakers can log in and update their profile, you would hope that this app would have an API to retrieve this data, but I believe @derberg said there was no API available.

IMO, regardless of what tool/app we use for this process, it would be the most ideal if each accepted speaker received an invite via email to update their speaker profile where they can enter all their information such as: Name, Title, Employer, Social Links, etc, and that their accepted talks would be listed under their names. With this information, it would be great to have a "Speaker Card Generator" where we have a set design template that the variables get applied to, and the speaker could download and share their speaker card.

Would we have this capability using the LF scheduling app?

[magicmatatjahu]

@mcturco

IMO, regardless of what tool/app we use for this process, it would be the most ideal if each accepted speaker received an invite via email to update their speaker profile where they can enter all their information such as: Name, Title, Employer, Social Links, etc, and that their accepted talks would be listed under their names. With this information, it would be great to have a "Speaker Card Generator" where we have a set design template that the variables get applied to, and the speaker could download and share their speaker card.

Would we have this capability using the LF scheduling app?

🤷🏼 I don't know, maybe @derberg will know that. Creating these cards won't be a problem (I think), but yeah, we need data for that.

[mcturco]

@derberg Gotcha, do you know if that spreadsheet automatically updates when changes are made from the app?

[derberg]

@mcturco unfortunately it does not. @alequetzalli has contact to a person that can do the fresh export for us. I mean, I have also, but yeah, I'm out soon 😄

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