Allow past sessions/schedule to be visible in sessionizer

[jennapederson]

People reach out to us looking for info on that one session by that one person who talked about some random tech. Expose past sessions and the schedule so that they can seek it out themselves.

[look]

For context, the main reason the old sessions aren't in sessionizer is that we were/are trying to run it on a free Heroku Postgres database and the database size was too small for multiple events 😭

[caseyhelbling]

This is a good point. Over the past couple years I did increase the DB to a paid tier so we do have data loaded since MinneBar 10 (I think.) As for the very old data, maybe we could dig up some old heroku db dumps - or maybe @jthingelstad has an old wiki dump and we could port it back into the tool?

[jennapederson]

So when we rebranded and redesigned the website, we did it with this in mind... that the wiki would go away and the web site would now be the source of truth after an event for more marketing type purposes. See: https://minnestar.org/minnebar/past-sessions/

But... Not all of that was implemented (like the sucking of data from sessionizer back to the website) due to time/budget constraints.

I think it's probably worth a larger discussion to figure out where it should live before these tasks are worked on.

[pcantrell]

I believe I have backups of at least some a few older Minnebars lying around somewhere. Remind me after the event and I’ll see if I can dig any up.