[Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup}

[Ramdas S]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anand C mentioned some items in the other thread. The archival is not
> critical but the Url names would be nice. Apropos the payment, the
> software side should be done. The configuration of account number/info
> on the cc avenue side will have to wait till we get the account. If we
> leave it for later, the registrations will start to depend on that and
> might get delayed.
>


I am sure we can start registrations only after the venue, agenda, dates,
content is finalized. I dont see this happening in next 30 days.

>
> On 4/22/10, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at au-kbc.org> wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 Apr 2010 12:56:08 pm Ramdas S wrote:
> >> All,
> >>
> >> Now that there's May 1 deadline. Can we start working on the site.
> >>
> >> I will be happy to chip in. I can write and fix code for apprxo 8-10
> hours
> >> over  next 10 days.
> >
> > here is what needs to be done:
> >
> > 1. current code is at http://bitbucket.org/lawgon/fossconf/
> >
> > 2. new repo to be set up for pycon 2010 specific code either in bitbucket
> or
> > git
> >
> > 3. code to be upgraded to svn trunk (basically adding the csrf_token
> stuff
> >
> > 4. site to be set up on server with some url
> >
> > 5. although fossconf does have facilities for static pages, it is not
> really
> > meant for front ending a conference. So a wiki or something to be set up
> > with
> > the few static pages we need for the next few months - announcement of
> the
> > conference, dates, venue and call for papers. Css to be developed for
> this
> > wiki and said css to be integrated with fossconf
> >
> > 6. Registration will open sometime in june/july I presume. By then bank
> > account, PAN number and ccavenue account to be created - these are not
> > programming tasks, so I will do them
> >
> > 7. Integration of ccavenue payment with the registration module - code is
> > ready at http://bitbucket.org/lawgon/certificate/ and just needs to be
> copy
> > pasted to the fossconf code. (ccavenue provides a php script for
> integration
> > to their gateway, but I had ported it to python back in 2004)
> >
> > 8. Decision to be taken on mode of review of papers and selection - last
> > time
> > it was done publicly with public review and comments, if this is changed,
> > then
> > the decorator on those views needs to be altered.
> >
> > 9. the scheduling part is not on the menu - it needs to be there and
> people
> > who would do the scheduling need to practice a bit on it
> >
> > there may be one or two things I have missed. As far as I am concerned I
> am
> > committed to doing the legal and financial stuff but certainly am not
> going
> > to
> > adhere to silly deadlines like getting online payment ready by May 1st
> when
> > we
> > are only going to need it 2-3 months later. Anyway we need online payment
> > for
> > society membership and donations and all I can say is: it will be done as
> > soon
> > as possible.
> >
> > And I can further emphasise that in a volunteer driven environment, there
> > are
> > ways to get volunteers and ways to drive them away also. To tell someone
> -
> > either do it your way and do it perfectly before such and such a date, or
> > else
> > I will do it my way, will result in all the volunteers opting out and and
> > all
> > the work landing on on or two people.
> >
> > And saying last time there were problems with the software, so this time
> we
> > do
> > not need it is like saying last time the tee shirt was printed wrongly so
> > this
> > time we will not have tee shirts.
> >>
> >> Please start discussing on how we need to set up the site. What all
> extra
> >> features is required, if any? Please come with suggestions
> >>
> >
> > --
> > regards
> > Kenneth Gonsalves
> > Senior Associate
> > NRC-FOSS
> > http://certificate.nrcfoss.au-kbc.org.in
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