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Re:Show HN: Share cancelled conference posters virtually by pbnjay on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @12:25AM (#22542978)
Hey all - I created this, after receiving a 3rd "cancelled conference" email in as many days, I realized while driving home that this is going to be (at least) a few really slow months for research dissemination.

Happy to answer any questions!

FYI for the technical folks, I was able to whip this up in a day using some really amazing resources: https://tailwindui.com basically has some great copy-pasteable HTML templates, and https://undraw.co has lots of royalty-free svg graphics. Minimal data collection app in Go for the backend.

Re:Show HN: Share cancelled conference posters virtually by masukomi on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @09:44AM (#22545759)
I was very confused by your usage of the word "poster" and "poster session". I had to go look up the meaning of "Poster Session". I've literally never heard the term used in relation to tech conferences in decades of geekery. Maybe I'm a weird edge case, but I doubt it. If you're interested in this being used for Non-academic / scientific presentations I'd suggest different wording.

for the other geeks who don't know what's going on with this "poster" stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poster_session

Re:Show HN: Share cancelled conference posters virtually by Eridrus on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @10:59AM (#22546361)
How are people dealing with publication policies around cancelled conferences? Are conferences still going to have proceedings where the papers are published, or does the work need to be re-submitted elsewhere? If the work is not considered published, will people really want to share their work like this?
Re:Show HN: Share cancelled conference posters virtually by haberdasher on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @12:27AM (#22542986)
Along the same vein: If you'd like to give that slides-based talk and share online: https://presentio.us/
Re:Show HN: Share cancelled conference posters virtually by llarsson on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @01:42AM (#22543313)
The name sounds like "pretentious", which is not how most speakers want to come across.
Re:Show HN: Share cancelled conference posters virtually by haberdasher on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:16AM (#22543500)
Sure. Naming things is hard :)
Re:Show HN: Share cancelled conference posters virtually by sidesquid on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @01:23AM (#22543215)
Website loaded so slowly on my 4g I noped out of there
Re:Show HN: Share cancelled conference posters virtually by gnolless on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @07:19AM (#22544815)
Agreed it could use some optimization.

Almost 15mb to load the homepage, with 1mb images like the following https://presentio.us/img/ss/201904.recordings.png

A whopping 53mb for the content page. https://storage.googleapis.com/spork-user-media/g7ps4qb42n4.... seems excessive when I have it in a 500x400 iframe. Perhaps it should load the slides as you progress through the content? Preloading just a few ahead would preserve the experience, which is decent once it shows.

Re:Show HN: Share cancelled conference posters virtually by haberdasher on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:16AM (#22543498)
The content's faster: https://presentio.us/view/cbf30a
Re:Show HN: Share cancelled conference posters virtually by s3nnyy on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @08:12AM (#22545092)
love the usability, freedom to choose any video conference tool and "upload poster from url/upload now/upload later" - excellent!! good idea and well done
Re:Show HN: Share cancelled conference posters virtually by pbnjay on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @08:49AM (#22545319)
Thanks! Trying to reduce friction as much as possible (and save some $$ on hosting costs in the off-chance this actually takes off)