[Conferences] Which package do you use for your conference? - e.g.: Pinax-Symposion

[Alec Taylor]

Actually was just looking at the licenses, web2conf has a much better
license than py2conf (New BSD vs GPL2)...

So I will need to consider if it's worth my while deving with a
license that restrictive... so I may just move to web2conf deving...

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Mariano Reingart <reingart at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In web2py we have almost two conference management systems:
>>
>> One is web2conf:
>>
>> https://code.google.com/p/web2conf/
>>
>> IIRC it was developed originally for PyCon US 2009 registration system.
>>
>> We're using it for PyCon Argentina, PyDays, PgDays and other events:
>>
>> http://ar.pycon.org/2012
>> http://ar.pycon.org/2011
>> http://ar.pycon.org/2010
>> http://ar.pycon.org/2009
>> http://www.pgday.com.ar/
>> http://www.pyday.com.ar/
>> http://www.jornadasregionales.org/
>> http://www.ubucon.org.ar/2010
>>
>> I has a module to import former Django-based PyCon-tech system data
>> (speakers, talks and statistics), we recovered our first conference
>> sites (2009 and 2010) with it, as PyCon-Tech "died" (stopped working,
>> eating the whole server memory)
>>
>> It fully supports:
>>
>> - social network login support (google, yahoo, twitter, facebook, etc.)
>> - internationalization (English, Spanish, etc.)
>> - Wiki (ReST)  and Wyswyg HTML CMS
>> - navigation bar dynamic menu
>> - talk proposal, review and schedule
>> - attendee registration
>> - mailing (notifications)
>> - badge/certificate generation
>> - sponsors sidebar and info page
>> - speakers info page
>> - statistics (attendee count, talk brief, maps, etc.)
>> - slideshow
>> - twitter and blog (rss) integration
>>
>> There is also a major rewrite called conf2py:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/conf2py/
>>
>> It has been used in academic conferences, as well as in PyCon
>> Asia-Pacific 2011/2012 (and others):
>>
>> http://vizworkshop.cct.lsu.edu/viz2010/
>>
>> http://apac.pycon.org/2011/
>> http://apac.pycon.org/2012/
>>
>>
>> You only need web2py and no other external dependency.
>> Most features are based on web2py provided ones (auth, login,
>> translations, mailing, pdf, etc.), no need to install other packages.
>>
>> Only 1 file (layout.html) should be changed to use a diferent skin.
>>
>> Let me know if you're interested, maybe we can setup a mailing list or
>> something similar (pycon-tech at python.org seems not active).
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Mariano Reingart
>> http://www.sistemasagiles.com.ar
>> http://reingart.blogspot.com
>>
>>
>
> Thanks, conf2py looks especially attractive, not just its
> feature-list, but it's maintainer also. (the Prof. who core-devs
> web2py).
>
> Looks like Pinax-Symposion will be quite for a little while whilst
> PyCon 2013 commits get pushed, so I can put that to one side for now.
>
> The major problem I see with conf2py is its lack of PayPal support for
> selling tickets. This will be my major focus when I start committing
> :)
>
>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hiya folks,
>>>
>>> I'm considering getting my hands dirty in the development of a
>>> web-based conference system.
>>>
>>> Pinax-Symposion seems to be the most used one? - I've requested a TODO
>>> + feature-list here:
>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pinax-symposion/m1RtRy0O2Y0
>>>
>>> Of all the open-source conference systems build with Python, which
>>> would you recommend I devote my time to?
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>>
>>> Alec Taylor
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