Show HN: Share cancelled conference posters virtually

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.

[ Parent | on HN ]

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

[ Parent | on HN ]

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?

[ Parent | on HN ]