Re: website: showcase or list videos and slides, sources of all talks

[sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com>]

On 20/12/17 17:32, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> skribis:
> 
>> Am 19.12.2017 um 17:15 schrieb ng0:
>>>> It should be here:
>>>>
>>>>    https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/tags/talks/
>>>>    https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/tags/papers/
>>> This doesn't work really well to discover them, like on
>>> a submenu page in the head menu, leading to these pages
>>> or dedicated (non-blog, non-markdown) pages.
>>>
>> +1 for linking them from a more prominent page on the main website.
>>
>> Blogs are like a diary, but not good for documentation an important content.
> 
> sirgazil, WDYT?  :-)

Well, I think we could convert the current Blog item in the website menu 
into a Media item with the following subitems:

   Blog
   Papers
   Screenshots
   Talks

Just like screenshots and blog posts, some talks could be highlighted in 
the home page. These changes could make it easier for people to find 
them, I think.

Note that video preview/thumbnail images will have to be created manually.

Mark H Weaver says:

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For now, an easy improvement would be to include links to the above URLs
from our Help page.  However, I also found the old list of talks and
papers to be easier to browse than the new method, and I wonder if it
could be restored.

For example, for those who prefer to see a video, it was easy to see at
a glance on the old site which talks included videos, whereas on the new
site one must apparently click on each individual talk to find out which
ones come with videos.  Ditto for slides.
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We can design the new pages and update current pages so that people 
browsing the summaries of posts, talks, etc. know if the full content of 
a given item contains video, slides, etc.

With these changes, which I think I can start designing right now, I 
think it would not be necessary to list talks and papers in the Help 
section again. What do you think, Mark?