Proposal: Create a dedicated "Events" category on Fedora Discussion

[glb (Gregory Lee Bartholomew)]

@theprogram

We would really like an Events category to promote regional and smaller events.

@lochipi

Right now, we have an “event” tag under the News and Announcements category, but event posts are rare - and the last one was in 2023. Many events don’t make it here at all, which isn’t ideal for long-term visibility or follow-up engagement.

If you really want visibility for such announcements, you can post them to Fedora Magazine. Also, there is a wp-discourse plugin that can automatically mirror posts made on Fedora Magazine to a subcategory somewhere on this forum and offload the comment handling to this forum.

@py0xc3

Usually, this ends up with it idling and being inactive because things likely develop as they start: many +1, but no one took over explicitly responsibility over time.

If a Discourse admin can help with the initial configuration of that wp-discourse plugin and subcategory, then you can make the Fedora Magazine editors moderators/admins for it and we can try to keep things moving as part of our operation.

Just an idea/suggestion.