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

[George]

I sent this out yesterday, but apparently it didn't make it, so here it 
is, and apologies if you get it twice.
> 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 
> simply 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'? Would you be interested 
> in helping out here?
>
> 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!
>