Re: LoCo Directory developers would like some input

2010-03-29 Thread Jan Claeys
Op donderdag 25-03-2010 om 11:57 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Dan Trevino: > Just thinking out loud here, each of the LoCo teams should already be > associated with one-to-many timezone(s). Why not just ask the event > creator to specify it? > > For my case, when I create a new event for Florida

Re: LoCo Directory developers would like some input

2010-03-26 Thread Dan Trevino
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:41 PM, David Rubin wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Fabian Rodriguez wrote: >> Dan Trevino wrote: >> [..] >> >>> If nobody wants to go through the small data entry task of entering >>> teams and their associated TZ, then just allow the team admin(s) to >>> selec

Re: LoCo Directory developers would like some input

2010-03-25 Thread David Rubin
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Fabian Rodriguez wrote: > Dan Trevino wrote: > [..] > >> If nobody wants to go through the small data entry task of entering >> teams and their associated TZ, then just allow the team admin(s) to >> select default timezone(s) available for their team. > > Ahem... a

Re: LoCo Directory developers would like some input

2010-03-25 Thread Fabian Rodriguez
Dan Trevino wrote: [..] > If nobody wants to go through the small data entry task of entering > teams and their associated TZ, then just allow the team admin(s) to > select default timezone(s) available for their team. Ahem... a team may span several time zones! Just sayin' :) And.. > On Wed,

Re: LoCo Directory developers would like some input

2010-03-25 Thread Laura Czajkowski
From: Ubuntu local community team LoCo contacts To: Ubuntu local community team LoCo contacts Subject: Re: LoCo Directory developers would like some input Date: 25/03/10 16:07 > Whats the potential of just letting the event organizer enter the time > with timezone, then store that va

Re: LoCo Directory developers would like some input

2010-03-25 Thread NICK VERBECK
Whats the potential of just letting the event organizer enter the time with timezone, then store that value in the DB as UTC along with the timezone that it was entered against. Then when a user visits the page use Javascript and Ajax to store against that users session there timezone, and just cha

Re: LoCo Directory developers would like some input

2010-03-25 Thread Dan Trevino
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Laura Czajkowski wrote: > Aloha! > > As many of you know the LoCo directory is up and running and with that > is the events section.  Many teams have added their Global Jam details > to it, well done it's looking great!  I'm posting here as the developers > would l

Re: LoCo Directory developers would like some input

2010-03-25 Thread Efrain Valles
What about displaying both timezones, local for the event according to venue and the UTC one. I'll see about trying it out... On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Daniel Holbach wrote: > On 24.03.2010 20:05, Fabian Rodriguez wrote: >> Ask the first-time visitors "What time is it for you right now ?"

Re: LoCo Directory developers would like some input

2010-03-25 Thread Daniel Holbach
On 24.03.2010 20:05, Fabian Rodriguez wrote: > Ask the first-time visitors "What time is it for you right now ?" and > store that as a cookie. That sounds nice, but it might be problematic with DST changes. I'd very much be in favour in a solution without any magic or crazy assumptions as it's in

Re: LoCo Directory developers would like some input

2010-03-24 Thread Rubén Romero y Cordero
The coordinates of the location/google maps will ALWAYS give you the right time zone where the events are hosted. I think that making the teams enter the events in UTC time really is a bad idea. I personally find it very annoying. But asking me for the time zone is reasonable. Converting local ti

Re: LoCo Directory developers would like some input

2010-03-24 Thread Fabian Rodriguez
Laura Czajkowski wrote: [...] > Our question to the community is, what would be the impact on your use > of loco.ubuntu.com for planning local events, if times were entered and > displayed in UTC,instead of local time. If the burden is not great, we > will do that. If the burden is enough to sig

LoCo Directory developers would like some input

2010-03-24 Thread Laura Czajkowski
Aloha! As many of you know the LoCo directory is up and running and with that is the events section. Many teams have added their Global Jam details to it, well done it's looking great! I'm posting here as the developers would like some feed back on the below issue, I've included the bug this