Re:Show HN: Share cancelled conference posters virtually
by pbnjay on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @12:25AM
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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
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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.
Re:Show HN: Share cancelled conference posters virtually
by Eridrus on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @10:59AM
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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?
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 s3nnyy on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @08:12AM
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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
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.
for the other geeks who don't know what's going on with this "poster" stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poster_session
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.