[documentation] Collecting Drupal presentations / videos / resources together in one sane place

[George]

Hi everyone,

As I (George2) sit in the IRC channels, I sometimes hear about webinars 
or slide presentations that I wouldn't have known about otherwise. These 
are great resources for the Drupal community that don't have the 
exposure they deserve.

There are many excellent Drupal articles, presentations, videos etc 
scattered about the internet that are time consuming to locate and watch 
(if at all they are indexed), and as some overlap in content - there are 
many for themeing for example - it could be a waste of time.

So, I'd like to put together a site that collects these resources 
together, but not a simple aggregation site as there are also some not 
so excellent resources! Also, I think a simple RSS fed aggregation site 
becomes too large, difficult to search, of varying quality, and 
therefore pointless.

Whether this site is to be a separate domain, or a subdomain on D.O is 
unknown at this point. I can't currently see it fitting into the current 
Drupal site, but with the redesign, who knows? (Hopefully someone does!)

I've already put forward a brief idea to the assoc about this, but I 
wanted to bounce some ideas around, and ask for some ideas and help, and 
webchick pointed me to this list (so blame her!)

I'd like to have some sort of quality control, but I understand one 
man's rubbish is another man's gold. However, we all know quality when 
we see it. Should there be some sort of community voting? I'm not so 
sure, I don't believe in +1, nor stars as these can be easily 
manipulated, and people vote for different reasons, not just the 
usefulness of the content involved. Maybe there should be a team of 
people who say 'this goes whilst this stays'?

I'd also like to have some sort of way that people who want to announce 
a live presentation / uploading of a seminar has completed, and it can 
be added to the site in some sort of updates section for everyone to 
see. I'd imagine this could be published as an RSS feed, but as for 
aggregating the content, I'm not so sure. What do you think?

Also, I'd like some sort of community to be built around the site to 
encourage people coming back to the site, maybe to add their own tuition 
videos, add new presentations, make requests maybe etc. I'd like to 
encourage people to ask questions on the video, like in a comments 
structure maybe, so that questions and answers are in a sane place. And, 
to encourage video/slide makers to supply some notes to fill in hte 
missing gaps. I have no idea what format to structure this community 
around, so once again, ideas would be welcomed!

Any other ideas you think would work for such a resource site?

Ok, that's enough for now, thanks for the ears!