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Show HN: Share cancelled conference posters virtually

41 points by pbnjay 7y ago

pbnjay 7y ago
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 https://tailwindui.com basically has some great copy-pasteable HTML templates, and https://undraw.co https://undraw.co has lots of royalty-free svg graphics. Minimal data collection app in Go for the backend.
- masukomi 7y ago
  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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poster_session
- Eridrus 7y ago
  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?
haberdasher 7y ago
Along the same vein: If you'd like to give that slides-based talk and share online: https://presentio.us/ https://presentio.us/
- sidesquid 7y ago
  Website loaded so slowly on my 4g I noped out of there
  - haberdasher 7y ago
    The content's faster: https://presentio.us/view/cbf30a https://presentio.us/view/cbf30a
  - gnolless 7y ago
    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 https://presentio.us/img/ss/201904.recordings.png A whopping 53mb for the content page. https://storage.googleapis.com/spork-user-media/g7ps4qb42n4.pngquant.png 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.
- llarsson 7y ago
  The name sounds like "pretentious", which is not how most speakers want to come across.
  - haberdasher 7y ago
    Sure. Naming things is hard :)
s3nnyy 7y ago
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
- pbnjay 7y ago
  Thanks! Trying to reduce friction as much as possible (and save some $$ on hosting costs in the off-chance this actually takes off)

41 points by pbnjay 7y ago

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 https://tailwindui.com basically has some great copy-pasteable HTML templates, and https://undraw.co https://undraw.co has lots of royalty-free svg graphics. Minimal data collection app in Go for the backend.

masukomi 7y ago
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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poster_session
Eridrus 7y ago
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?

haberdasher 7y ago

Along the same vein: If you'd like to give that slides-based talk and share online: https://presentio.us/ https://presentio.us/

sidesquid 7y ago
Website loaded so slowly on my 4g I noped out of there
- haberdasher 7y ago
  The content's faster: https://presentio.us/view/cbf30a https://presentio.us/view/cbf30a
- gnolless 7y ago
  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 https://presentio.us/img/ss/201904.recordings.png A whopping 53mb for the content page. https://storage.googleapis.com/spork-user-media/g7ps4qb42n4.pngquant.png 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.
llarsson 7y ago
The name sounds like "pretentious", which is not how most speakers want to come across.
- haberdasher 7y ago
  Sure. Naming things is hard :)

s3nnyy 7y ago

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

pbnjay 7y ago
Thanks! Trying to reduce friction as much as possible (and save some $$ on hosting costs in the off-chance this actually takes off)