Re: Event Submission

On Jan 25, 2012, at 11:25 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Jonathan S. Katz
> <jonathan(dot)katz(at)excoventures(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Jonathan S. Katz
>>> <jonathan(dot)katz(at)excoventures(dot)com> wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to submit a new event but am getting an error saying that the "Org" field is required. Unfortunately, there are no organizations appearing in the dropdown list so I cannot submit. Is this a global issue or is it isolated to my community account?
>>>
>>> Umm, did you see the line of text below the org field? We added that
>>> last week, so I'm wondering if you missed it, or if it's in need of
>>> rephrasing (Magnus and I weren't entirely happy with the wording).
>>
>> Yes I did. It is a bit confusing - I would probably just say "To be added to an organization, contact the organization manager or webmaster(at)postgresql(dot)org"
>
> We didn't say that because we don't want to add people to orgs that
> already have a "real" manager. That should be up to them to decide who
> represents them.

You can always relay the message to the real manager, or ( feature request) list the real managers on the org page ;-)

>
>> But additionally, I would recommend having a default organization, such as "Other" or "Community" so that if someone who is not affiliated with an organization has a PG Event they can at least submit it, and we could work out the data association after.
>
> If we do that, I'll bet a pint that the majority of people just start
> picking that org instead of an appropriate one :-)

Touché - will not take that bet

Jonathan