Re: Dropping training events

Le mer. 7 nov. 2018 à 15:36, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> a écrit :

> I'd like to propose that we drop the ability to register training events
> on the www.postgresql.org site.
>
> Reasons:
>
> 1. It's basically a system set up to game, where it helps to flood with a
> lot of instances and then cancel them (often without actually removing the
> registration on the website, and our moderators certainly don't have the
> time to go double-check which instances are actually happening etc)
>
> 2. It takes a lot of work for our moderators
>
> 3. Based on (1) it provides very little value to the end user the way it
> is now.
>
> 4. And based on (3), in the end it also doesn't provide much value to the
> companies providing training.
>
> Instead, I propose that we long-term merge this functionality into the
> "professional services" part of the site, as a "this provider provides both
> support and training" or "this provider provides just training" kind of
> fields. Now, that section of the site *also* needs a complete redesign and
> re-thought, but the problems to consider (avoid what's basically spam and
> figuring out how to get a listing thats actually useful to end users) are
> very similar between things like support and training in this context.
>
> But short term,let's just drop them because they're useless today.
>
>
Totally agree.

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Guillaume.