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Conference functionality suggestions
I'm working on everything related to conferences this year, and I'd like to suggest a couple of changes in the Teams app.
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Move the whole conference block from student's page to team's page. Reasoning: we strongly recommend our students to attend a conference (which is part of the RGSoC program) as a team. First of all, when they fill out their preferences on their team's page, that raises their awareness of our recommendation. Secondly, we don't need to merge conflicts manually if two students of one team choose different conferences.
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Add a 'Suggest conference' feature. We discussed it already in the Issue #472. Students should be able to suggest a new conference on their team's page - just the same way as admins do currently. Reasoning: we don't want to overlook a cool local conference which a team wants to attend. Note: may be we should mark conferences created by students with a special flag.
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It would be useful to add a 'Comment' field where students could leave additional information about conferences (e.g. 'scholarship needed', 'applied ourselves' etc).
I like these points a lot, @mkalininait and agree strongly with the first. I think choosing a conference as a team makes a lot of sense.
About the third point though, just to make sure, you mean adding this comment field to the feature from point 2, right?
I don't have a lot of knowledge regarding the conferences process, but it is logical to have the conferences block on the team's page.
@ramonh I actually was thinking of adding a comment field in general, not related to feature 2. The idea is that sometimes teams want to add some additional info about conferences, like: "We would attend conference X only in they provide scholarships / have a LT session" or "We have already applied for the conference selected above ourselves" etc. There might be options.
In general, I need to handle so much information related to conferences this year (incl. info on traveling costs and scholarships which is super important), that I probably need to think a little bit more about how I'd like it to be entered / arranged (should it be just a comment field or something more specific). But your input is welcome anyway!