Show a schedule of upcoming events on homepage

[iancrowther]

The idea is to give people insights to upcoming speakers.

This should be dynamic, based on the current state of github.com/lnug/speakers

"We could pull in all the milestones setup in github I guess, that would give a list of the next few events. Would need to think about where in the UI it sits. Not gonna look at this till after the redesign is out."

• @simonmcmanus

[simonmcmanus]

do we really need show more than when the next event is?

Not sure what the value is here.

[iancrowther]

this has come from user feedback - people want to know whats coming up 2 or 3 months ahead for their personal planning.

Example: if you are travelling a long distance, you have to choose the events that stand out to you

[simonmcmanus]

We should be able to add more events to the homepage. We can reuse most of the existing mechanism, we will just need to think about how we build up the selectors.

We should ensure future events don't make it into the archive.

Check out this file to see how we build up the data:
https://github.com/lnug/website/blob/master/bin/update-json.js

I suspect we want to add another json file which stores the upcoming events.

To see how we get that data into the markup search the spec for speakerSelectors:

https://github.com/lnug/website/blob/master/spec.js

[sielay]

#154 That adds list of future events. If you tell where you want to put them on the homepage I can easily add it

[simonmcmanus]

@sielay - looking at the homepage I can't see an obvious place to add it. We would probably need to make a new section for each month to keep things clear. Now we have a future events page I wonder if we need the list on the homepage at all.

Im open to suggestions though.

[sielay]

You could put a** big button saying future, but it will draw attention from actual content. Or below 2 talks from next event, we can have dividing heading and then list of future events. Let's not be scared of scrolling ;)