[Conferences] Conference website software?

[Lyndsy Simon]

> It would be nice if people writing such stuff had demo sites and more
than a GitHub repository landing page, too.

Sounds like an excellent sprint activity for a conference...

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:18 AM Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk> wrote:

> On Thursday 6. August 2015 12.56.46 M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> > On 06.08.2015 02:54, Richard Jones wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > I'd like to get an idea of what software folks are using to run their
> > > conference websites - content management, programme (CFP through to
> > > schedule) and registration.
> >
> > For EuroPython 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 we used the software developed
> > by the Python Italia team:
> >
> > https://github.com/EuroPython/epcon
> > https://github.com/EuroPython/assopy
> > https://github.com/EuroPython/conference
> >
> > It provides everything needed and has many cool features built-in
> > like talk voting, drag&drop scheduling, integration with Paypal and
> > Stripe, Django CMS, automatic switching between conference rates,
> > etc. etc.
> >
> > That said, it does take a while to get it up and running, since
> > it's not a trivial system to deploy.
>
> Once upon a time - as you will remember M-A ;-) - there were some wiki
> pages
> about conference management solutions:
>
> https://wiki.python.org/moin/EuroPython/SoftwareRequirements
> https://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConPlanning/SoftwareRequirements
>
> I think that a review of the current scene might be beneficial to everyone
> interested in this kind of thing. It would be nice if people writing such
> stuff had demo sites and more than a GitHub repository landing page, too.
>
> Paul
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