Venue list in event form should only show venues for areas near that loco

[Jan Claeys]

Currently the venue list in the event entry form shows every venue in the database but most of those are completely useless. I think the venue list should only show venues that are entered by the locoteam, as even then the list will grow long soon enough.

[Chris Johnston (cjohnston)]

We spoke about this today in the Loco Dir UDS session.

We determined that we think it would be better to instead of list only venues that are entered by that loco team that it needs to be something more along the lines of showing items that are in the continent that the team is located on. This is due in part to the fact that we eventually hope to be able to have multiple teams participate in one event. (example: the Florida LoCo is helping the Georgia LoCo with Atlanta Linux Fest, so Florida should be able to add on to that event)

[Jan Claeys (janc)]

Maybe let people choose the area (which is the LoCoTeam's area by default) and dynamically update the venue list based on that? So somebody from the Florida LoCo could select "Georgia" instead of the default "Florida" and some JavaScript would automatically update the venue list?

To give you some datapoint: if I would enter all events that have happened or are already planned around Ubuntu in Belgium in 2010 until today, that would be 20 venues at least, and if I look at the last 12 month, I suppose it would be around 30. Considering that Belgium is only one small country of the 50 countries in Europe, maybe that could result in a list of 30 * 50 = 1500 venues? That's *way* more than I want to scroll through... ;) Of course not all countries have locoteams yet, and not all of them might have used as many venues, but still, it's not going to scale over time (other venues might be used every time, etc.).

PS: I wanted to attend this session but I had (well, wanted) to be at a family event on Thursday...