Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On 04/27/2016 08:28 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > > >I think this was ill-conceived. Back when everybody had editor > >privileges right at account creation and there was no "cool-off" period > >it was perfectly fine to have people add their own slides to the wiki, > >but with those two things it has now become a tremendous annoyance. I > >think we need to come up with a better system to handle the uploading of > >slides to the wiki. > > I think we should just leave it to the respective conference sites.
Well, I don't like that as a solution, because conference sites can go down, lose files or whatever and the material becomes unavailable. Our wiki is reliable, backed up, monitored by the same people who runs all the rest of pg infrastructure -- all of which I like. I meant something like, can the conference organizer team request to have the slides emailed to them, and *they* upload to the wiki using a pre-existing
account.
Alternatively the conference organizers know in advance who is speaking.
Providing a list of names to enable on the wiki would be far easier than individual requests.
OTOH, after a few conferences this will probably be a non-issue as most people are repeat speakers.