Cool!
I have to admit, this portal is shaping up quite nicely. I've noticed that you're trying to index presenters to their presentations, so that presumably when one visits a presenter's profile, the list of that person's presentations can be seen, and not just from the most recent TKF, but from all future TKF events as well... My question is, do you have any way to do that automagically, or is it a manual process at this point?
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Automated
It's automated - I'm far too lazy to set up manual content relationships. This does, however, provide a nice opportunity to explain a bit of the logic behind the site structure. To create a TKF event:
Upcoming events will appear in the events list. Past events will be automatically removed from the events list to the archives. As Rouben guessed, presenters and events (past and future) are automatically related and cross linked. Cool, eh?
Flash video
Quick one: does Drupal include some sort of server-side Flash video encoding mechanism, or does it expect one to supply it with FLV video files and just creates a pretty Flash player on top of them?
P.S. Mark Surman's page looks impressive. Everything from the photo gallery to the embedded videos is at least one step above any other U of T web page, official or unofficial.
Many ways to get it done
Drupal core has no built-in video handling capabilities, however there are a number of contributed modules that do everything from complete server-side FLV encoding solutions to FLV embedding assistance (check out http://drupalmodules.com/module-finder?title=video&c=Media&v=6.x for examples). On TKF.org we're hosting the video on blip.tv (techknowfile.blip.tv) and simply dropping the embed code in the body of the content.
Glad you dig the site! :)
UTORtube!!!!
Hey, I like the BlueDroplet module. Actually looks like it alone can provide us with a backend for a service like UTORtube. I also like the direction in which the author is thinking, cloud computing, that is. Looking good so far... :)
If it were up to me, my next step would be to work out a cataloging standard with the folks at the library and take a stab at creating a UTORtube backbone that folks could build apps on top of.