Andrew Sutherland

There are also events like lecture series (e.g. three or four lectures over a series of a few days by a distinguished speaker) that are not really seminars or conferences.

We might be able to use a spell checker to help with this -- highlight capitalized words that are not the first word that the spell checker knows and auto-suggest...

I was actually only suggesting identifying obviously non-proper nouns, and only for titles in English. But conversion to sentence case is a well-studied NLP problem (often called truecasing) and there...

I'm wondering if we should switch to title case for series names (but keep sentence case of talks). Many of them have acronyms (e.g. "Waves in One World (WOW)") that...

Just to clarify, this is only relevant for properties talks inherit from their series. For the new schema these are - `access_control`, `access_time`, `access_hint`, `access_registration` (access) - `online`, `room`, `live_link`,...

As far as implementation goes, I'm wondering if we should consider using None for the talk values of these columns to indicate that it should inherit from the series. On...

@edgarcosta Do we ever actually search on these? For client-side filtering it does not matter (the talk object can have None's filled in from its seminar). But I agree this...

Even prior to implementing this (assuming we decide to do so), I think it would be a good idea to warn the user when they modify an inherited value iand...

@poonen Agreed.

I don't think conferences should be all day events, it is much more valuable to have the individual talks listed separately. I also think that a user who is really...