Django Conference Tool

Organize your own conference. Attendee registration, proposal upload, session management, review process, notification speaker notification,...

License:	BSD

Current Plan

Today there are several conference tools available, but most of them seem dead. This is why I tend to write something small and lightweight conference organizing software:

• user app: name, address, email, etc.
  • attendees (including speakers), reviewers, organizers
  • contains flags for: has_paid, is_speaker, needs invitation, needs visa, etc.
  • plan: adapt existing: django-registration 3.0 app (see: https://djangopackages.org/grids/g/django-registration/)
• proposal app:
  • 3 types of contributions: paper, poster, workshop, each having: - title, abstract, authors - authors have: names, institution / affiliation - institute: name, country - upload PDF - states: accept, reject, revision
  • multiple contributions possible
• schedule app:
  • event types: talk sessions, workshops, panels, keynotes
  • parallel event support
  • room capacity management
  • schedule generation
  • pre-registration for talks, workshops, panels
• notification app:
  • overall notification, speaker notification, team notification
• conference website (far future)
• review app (far future)
• sponsor app: (far future)

Settings

Moved to settings.

Basic Commands

Setting Up Your Users

• To create a normal user account, just go to Sign Up and fill out the form. Once you submit it, you'll see a "Verify Your E-mail Address" page. Go to your console to see a simulated email verification message. Copy the link into your browser. Now the user's email should be verified and ready to go.

• To create an superuser account, use this command:

  $ python manage.py createsuperuser
  

For convenience, you can keep your normal user logged in on Chrome and your superuser logged in on Firefox (or similar), so that you can see how the site behaves for both kinds of users.

Type checks

Running type checks with mypy:

$ mypy dconf

Test coverage

To run the tests, check your test coverage, and generate an HTML coverage report:

$ coverage run -m pytest
$ coverage html
$ open htmlcov/index.html

Running tests with py.test

$ pytest

Live reloading and Sass CSS compilation

Moved to Live reloading and SASS compilation.

Deployment

The following details how to deploy this application.