Featured items of distributed discussion collaboration

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

• determining, by one or more processors, a geographic location associated with a participating collaborator of an event;
• determining, by the one or more processors, a geographic location associated with one or more discussion items, the one or more discussion items are associated with the event;
• selecting, by the one or more processors, one or more featured discussion items for the participating collaborator of the event based at least upon a geographic relationship between the geographic location associated with the participating collaborator and a geographic location associated with a featured discussion item in the one or more featured discussion items;
• providing, by the one or more processors, the one or more selected featured discussion items for display to the participating collaborator;
• and
• receiving, by the one or more processors, information on a user preference for a collaborator-selected featured discussion item in the one or more featured discussion items, the information on the user preference includes one of a positive vote for the collaborator-selected featured discussion item received from the participating collaborator and a negative vote for the collaborator-selected featured discussion item received from the participating collaborator.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• a selection module executable by the one or more processors to, implemented on one or more computing devices, configured to:
• determine a geographic location associated with a participating collaborator of an event, the selection module further executable to determine a geographic location associated with one or more discussion items, and the one or more discussion items are associated with the event and select one or more featured discussion items for the participating collaborator of the event based at least upon a geographic relationship between the geographic location associated with the participating collaborator and a geographic location associated with a featured discussion item in the one or more featured discussion items;
• a view controller, implemented on the one or more computing devices, configured executable by the one or more processors to provide the one or more selected featured discussion items for display to the participating collaborator;
• and
• a voting module, implemented on the one or more computing devices, configured executable by the one or more processors to receive information on a user preference for a collaborator-selected featured discussion item in the one or more featured discussion items, wherein the information on the user preference includes one of a positive vote for the collaborator-selected featured discussion item received from the participating collaborator and a negative vote for the collaborator-selected featured discussion item received from the participating collaborator.