[CREATE] LGM and the social conference directory

[Chris Lilley]

On Thursday, March 22, 2012, 8:48:39 PM, Jakub wrote:

JJ> Hi all

JJ> I added LGM to the social conference directory
JJ> http://lanyrd.com/2012/lgm/
JJ> (there are already 2 last LGMs in directory)

JJ> if you have twitter account and will come you can sign in and confirm
JJ> that you will.

At the risk of being controversial, I don't think this is helpful.

Firstly, 'signing in' requires that I authorise an app to follow new people, post for me, and update my profile. I see no reason to let it do that. (I now see that you can also do this by tweeting @lanyrd attending #lgm which is much better).

Secondly, why would I want to come to LGM? There are only three people attending.
"Visit the Libre Graphics Meeting 2012 attendee directory"
http://lanyrd.com/2012/lgm/attendees/

Or at least, I might assume that from the site, since it links to its own list of attendees instead of the official one
http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2012/whos-coming/
with 52 confirmed attendees.

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