Provide mechanism for audience to suggest speakers

[iancrowther]

Our audience knows what it wants to see, it would be great to provide a mechanism for the audience to suggest potential speakers.

I have suggested a google form for speed of implementaion.

[ifraixedes]

How you're thinking to add Google form, embedded?

[PatrickHeneise]

you could use a plugin in gitevents :P same as the jobs plugin, provides a /suggestion endpoint and processes form data.

[ifraixedes]

I was asking because I wanted those in static pages (GH pages in my case) and embedding wasn't an option for me.

Other option that I've tried to avoid CORS issues wasn't very pleasant so the only way was to have a service how receive the post, forward to Google Forms and reply back with CORS headers, obviously I had to set up a server so if you do that you may want to put your page in the server than in GH pages, however I like how I can easily deploy in GH pages and for a static page which the only need of a server is for the form, was a shame to have to move it out.

The result has been to create that forwarding service, running in Openshift for free. Currently I don't have the implementation open source as I implemented straightaway in the Openshift repo, but I will clean up and release. So far is running and I'm using in my new landing page.

Nonetheless I implemented it in Golang.

@PatrickHeneise as you mention gitevents could have a plugin which has the same behaviour, but obviously implemented in Node.

@iancrowther for now if you want I can set in my service the form that you want to use it in any static page, but bear in mind that it would be without guarantee 😛

[iancrowther]

"How you're thinking to add Google form, embedded?" - i was just thinking a link to a form created using the LNUG google account. simple!

[ifraixedes]

Google forms give you the code to embed in your website, it's an option, not a hack.
@iancrowther your solutions is obviously the simplest one, if you don't mind to redirect people to Google domain or show the Google forms credits when you embed it, that's something that I didn't want to do in my landing.

[iancrowther]

I think a link works fine, just add the lnug logo to the form and folks are aware they are in the right place

[simonmcmanus]

i'm confused, why are we adding a google form to the website?

What problem will the form help to solve?

[iancrowther]

@simonmcmanus this is the thread for speaker suggestions - it does not have to be a form, its just a suggestion.

[simonmcmanus]

@iancrowther Can we update this issue to describe the problem that needs to be solved please.

[iancrowther]

@simonmcmanus fair call, I have updated. make more sense now or needs more?

[simonmcmanus]

much better 👍

[simonmcmanus]

Could we use the github issues with a suggestions tag? Just a thought