The website....grrhhh

[Marcel Stör]

While I love the conference I hate the website. IMO it has the wrong focus and terrible usability. Three major annoying "features":

• even in 2012 requires Flash for certain stuff
• useless animations (at least I can switch them off this year)
• neither of the schedules is printable and PDF schedule is missing this year - the biggest issue for me
  

IMO the site should have a single purpose: pass information on to attendees. Pure, simple, to the point. You don't need fancy distracting graphics for that.

[Stephan Janssen]

Hey,

The Twitter flash animation has just been added yesterday, giving you a view of what attendees are tweeting.
Feel free to suggest a HTML5 version.

Why would you print the schedule if we've a mobile schedule for any tablet or smartphone?!  :)
See also http://www.devoxx.com/display/DV12/Mobile+Clients

Kind regards,

Stephan

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[Marcel Stör]

Thanks for the quick reply.

On Sunday, November 11, 2012 11:14:56 AM UTC+1, Stephan Janssen wrote:

Why would you print the schedule if we've a mobile schedule for any tablet or smartphone?!  :)

Ah, the Apple syndrome..."we tell you what's good for you" (I'm a Mac lover myself). For me it's all about choices. I know about the mobile schedules but I prefer paper still. Just as I prefer reading a real book instead of reading it on iPad, Kindle, et al.

It'd be interesting to know how often the PDF schedule links were actually clicked on the 2011 website. I'd bet that 20% of the participants did. The 2010 website for example had a schedule layout that printed ok directly in the browser.

Cheers,
Marcel

[Jo Voordeckers]

Hi Marcel,

The same schedule layout from last year is still available: 

http://www.devoxx.com/display/DV12/Agenda 

- Jo Voordeckers

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[Jo Voordeckers]

And if you really want your PDF schedule, here is the source code from the 2011 PDF generator, we accept contributions ;-)

https://code.google.com/p/devoxxguide/source/browse/

- Jo Voordeckers

[Stephan Janssen]

Devoxx is a Community driven conference, actions speak louder than words  :)

[Marcel Stör]

On 11.11.12 11:56, Jo Voordeckers wrote:
> And if you really want your PDF schedule, here is the source code from
> the 2011 PDF generator, we accept contributions ;-)
>
> https://code.google.com/p/devoxxguide/source/browse/

Ah, good to know. Checking out the code, changing one number in the
properties file I was able to produce a pile of PDFs aka "The Conference
Guide".
However, what I'm really after is the timesheets such as this one:
http://www.devoxx.com/download/attachments/5013581/Devoxx2011-TimesheetDay1-2.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1320916677000
Is that also produced with open-source code?

Cheers,
Marcel

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