Re: [libreoffice-marketing] conference planning tool

Hi *,

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Florian Effenberger
<floeff@documentfoundation.org> wrote:
> one of the items discussed in Bern was to set-up a conference planning tool.

What's the deadline for a testing/proofing phase?

> Basic features needed are
> call for papers, registration of participants and speakers,

That's all easily done in any system I guess :-))

> and an easy (!)
> scheduling.

That's the tricky part to do properly and as well userfriendly.

> [...]
> Before thinking about coming up with our own solution, we should check what
> existing tools are on the market, or if other projects are working on that
> (I heard rumors that other FLOSS projects are already funding efforts here).

Did not try myself yet, but pentabarf http://www.pentabarf.org might
seem a possible basis. Although no recent conferences listed as
planned with that too, it offers all from speaker management to
scheduling with basic conflict management.

As the post was ~a month ago, time already to collect the proposals
and start with trying them out? Or do people have more proposals?

So far there were:
* https://github.com/openSUSE/osem (Open Source Event Manager)
  No idea how to actually use that, as there is no clear pointer to
either screenshots or some guidelines/tutorials... All I know from
quick search is that there's an app for it (obviously :-) - and that
there was a GSoC project for a dashboard view
https://news.opensuse.org/2014/07/30/gsoc-open-source-event-manager-organizer-dashboard/

* http://www.lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/ (Free Timetabling Software)
  only covers the schedule - was used this year
  good for automatic timetables

* unnamed tool used by T-Dose
  drupal with lots of additional stuff - "quite a job to setup, but
then looks nice"

* https://github.com/hasgeek/funnel (Paper Submission and Voting)
  no end-user/usage docs, used widely for FLOSS events in India

* http://www.pentabarf.org (see above)
   quite old (last commit in 2010) - but would cover more or less
everything from speaker management, submittions and schedules
   DebConf uses it afaict (even if no current events are listed in
pentabarf's wiki - debconf pages refer to pentabarf-accounts, etc) -
at least they set it up for the '13 conference
http://penta.debconf.org/penta/submission/
   FOSDEM uses it https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/
   OpenRheinRuhr uses it http://event.openrheinruhr.de/submission

* homebrew implementation

ciao
Christian

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