Posting about online presentations
3 points by szabgab
3 points by szabgab
I organize online presentations about various topics in computing. (e.g. Python, Rust, Go, Databases, DevOps etc.) I also monitor many other channels that have online "meetups". Even if they don't use Meetup to organize them.
I am new here and I would like to get the opinion of the community here.
Purely my opinion, but my thinking is that this isn't really something I'd want to see on the site. Aren't there already a bunch of options for event listings?
While I don't think there's any particular rule against sharing events, and I'm pretty sure there have been some in the past, I also think postings here should primarily be to share and discuss the content of that posting with the community. There's not really much meaningful conversation to be had about a post that essentially is nothing but a calendar event.
By "posting events" do you mean invitations/links where one can buy tickets or videos and transcripts of select presentations/talks?
The former, I think there wouldn't be too much interest for, it doesn't really fit the site's general content. The latter, sure, talks are interesting and are generally well received.
Personally I would not welcome such posts, but then again I'm also not a fan of online live presentations.
I would also recommend reading the Guidelines:
Self-promotion: It's great to have authors participate in the community, but not to exploit it as a write-only tool for product announcements or driving traffic to their work. As a rule of thumb, self-promo should be less than a quarter of one's stories and comments.
i would be interested to discover such places. please don't post though regular invitations: an overview of the landscape would suffice. also please look at the landscape from the other direction: the author of something who wants to present and discuss what she or he built.
i also agree with a previous commenter: for most subjects, i strongly prefer written text to "talking heads". i even block the video tag: because i lack the time to engage with them. diagonal reading beats fast forwarding, so to speak.
yet, i might find live, interactive video talks (not recordigs) interesting.
TLDR: i would enjoy reading a summary of the places, but wouldnt be interested in regular invitations. thanks.