Scriptum Manchester: Event types

[vliegey (Vincent Liegey)]

Session Type, now we have:
Special Sessions | Activist Sessions | Artistic Sessions | Participatory Sessions
Plenary Sessions | Keynotes | Book/Special Issue Presentation
Individual Papers
Poster Presentations
Parties | Demonstrations | Fikas | Lunchs |

@mark.burton
Which should we keep / delete?

[mark.burton]

I suggest remove ‘participatory sessions’ - we’d actually like to have the other categories of sessions as participatory wherever possible. I think making a separate category will be confusing and force a false choice.
“Fika” is a Swedish term that won’t be transparent to most participants - can we use a different descriptor - “tea break” would be very Manchester English!

[yala (jon r)]

Session types are what we call event types. I had prepared a compilation of different event types as they were communicated to me before:

@yala

Bonus¹ to help the developers:
Review and confirm the event types

• Budapest 2016 event types ($399) · Snippets · degrowth / scriptorium · GitLab
• Malmö 2018 event types ($398) · Snippets · degrowth / scriptorium · GitLab
• Manchester 2020 event types ($400) · Snippets · degrowth / scriptorium · GitLab

They will be written into the code, why it is easier to double check them now, than to apply changes throughout the system later.

Can we compile the definitive list of event types to be implemented in the pad that I suggested before? Keeping the contents in a collaborative form on the web, and not in files, will ease access for the developers when implementing your changes.

@yala

Bonus² for you:
use pad.degrowth.net/2020-event-types

[yala (jon r)]

Best @mark.burton and/or @vliegey, could you take a moment to provide the list of desired event types, similar to the ones exemplified above, in https://pad.degrowth.net/2020-event-types?edit#2020? Then we can add them to the platform and start spreading the CfP.

Visit this pad.

[yala (jon r)]

I’m compiling from recent messages:

@mark.burton

We’d like to take out Poster sessions and rename Fika as “Refreshment break”. We’d also like to rename Academic special session as academic. Could we also hide all except academic, activist, artistic, plenary, book - for now. We’d want to add individual paper but will do that after the call for individual papers goes out.

@mladen

don’t know exact answer as did not really work on multiplication of these types, but i guess that if they were multiplied they can also be reduced. For individual papers at least, they will not appear as option to submit if the submission timeline controlled from back end is not activated (start IP submission).

From your comment I conclude the answer two my question for a list of event types current looks like:

• Academic
• Activist
• Artistic
• Plenary
• Book
• Individual paper

Is that correct @mark.burton? Please see the list from which I compiled it in the linked pad above.

We will need to know this in the beginning before creating sessions, since it is not easily changed later on in the process.

[mark.burton]

I think that should work @yala with one further change back to Academic Special Session as people have already begun uploading under that category - sorry this has already started if it creates problems.
Maybe we can be relaxed about individual papers (i.e. no need to hide them) - if people upload them before the open call it doesn’t really matter.

And I have some further questions:

1. The contact address needs changing - it is still the Malmo one. Please replace with degrowth2020@manchester.ac.uk
2. There seems to be a limit on the number of papers that can form part of a special session. Please can this be removed? (@vliegey also requested this).
3. Some queries are coming in to us by email re registration problems. Where should we forward them?

[yala (jon r)]

We can implement the event types as announced above, after the design phase for the next conference has finished.

@mark.burton

people have already begun uploading under that category - sorry this has already started if it creates problems

Indeed it was my desire to start with a structured, planned and communicated development of the platform up until its launch, why I initially drafted the overview in Degrowth 2020: Manchester conference platform - #14 with checkmarks. Unfortunately we didn’t pursue a clear path together, possibly due to communication and language distances, which brings us little challenges and constraints for the implementation.

@mark.burton

And I have some further questions:

Please let’s try to stick with a rule of thumb of one subject per conversation, in so we do not derail the original subject far off its scope. We will address these points in other, dedicated places.

[vliegey (Vincent Liegey)]

@yala
@mark.burton wrote:
"I’ve changed the deadlines and that means that when logged in, I can edit my own submission.
On the screen I see this:

However,

1. The two buttons on the right lead to an error message. I can edit the submission by clicking the hyperlinked text of the session title as the page that comes next has an “edit session” button.
2. Other submitters have no edit button on their submission page. It might be because I have admin rights that I can edit, but we need to allow people to edit their own submissions.
   I doubt if this is a big change needed but there might be a need for payment for some system development time.I’m therefore copying this to John O’Neill so he is aware of this too."
   Thanks.