Restructure event speakers and sessions

[zerok]

Right now, speakers and their talks are listed on a single page with the main group happened per speaker. This feels a bit strange from the point of view the conference schedule, where the focus is on the sessions. What would you say about something like this?

• Single page per session per event which can then be linked to from the schedule page
• Single page per speaker (globally) that lists all the sessions the speaker was associated with
• Remove current "Speakers" page from the conference template in favor of the conference schedule page (perhaps add some redirects)

[plaindocs]

Hey @zerok thanks for raising this. Here are a couple of thoughts in return

• We don't think about checking whether speaker name combos are unique across events, though we do implicitly assume they are for profile pics
• We also need a way of publishing speaker and sessions info before there is a schedule
• The current speakers page is actually a sessions page (ie, talks with multiple speakers are listed once, with both speakers listed)
• We also don't have anything like a short description which we could use to make in a page listing sessions more interesting

Finally, the sad and neglected video archive currently lists only by conference-year combo, that might be a good place to look at a per speaker page "outside" of the conference structure.

So I'm open to optimizing all (or any) of this, but I don't think your suggestion works as is.

A very minor improvement might be to reframe the speaker page as a sessions page, restore the explicit talk anchor link to make it easier for speakers to link to their own talk, and perhaps even add the talk time and date to the session info when that's available.

Otherwise, for most attendees, it's probably more useful to have a list of sessions rather than individual pages? (especially for our relatively short list)

Thoughts?