zookeeprhome grown

conference management software

by Brianna Laugher(pfctdayelise) for

Pycon AU 2011

● web-based conference management system● developed for the annual Linux & open source conference, linux.conf.au (LCA)● handles CFP, registration, invoicing, scheduling● licensed under the GPLv2

not quite...

O HAI

but also...● Python, etc● Uses Pylons MVC framework

● ORM: SQL Alchemy● Templates: Mako● DB: usually Postgres● Webserver: usually Apache +mod_wsgi

● VCS: Git, Github● Develop/install on: usually Debian/Ubuntu

timeline

2007 2008 2009

201220112010

●Initial release●CFP●Review papers●Registration

●Admin controller●Better reports

●Inventory system●Volunteer●Static pages ●Badge printing

●Funding●Social networks●Special offer

●Schedule (!!!)●Photo competition

●Watch this space...

roles

organisercore team

papers chairpaper reviewer

funding reviewerminiconf organiser

(user)(user + paid => 'attendee')

(user + proposal accepted => 'speaker')

admin reports

During the CFP:Which potential proposers are allowed to submit a late proposal?Which proposers have asked for financial assistance?What are the best proposals according to the papers review committee?Who are speakers – ie, which proposers had talks accepted?

During attendee-gathering time:Who has created an account on the website but not yet registered?How many of each type of ticket are we going to allow?Who needs to be reminded that they haven't paid yet?Who said they want to be on the mailing list?Who has signed up/been approved to be a volunteer?How many people have paid so far?

During the conference itself or after:Who didn't agree to the A/V release terms?Who has signed up for the partners programme?Which attendees have paid but not yet checked in?Which talks are on In which rooms?

cont.

Has so-and-so paid yet?So-and-so lost their invoice and needs another one.We need to print out badges for for each paid attendee (with their preferred OS and shell information, of course, and which special extras they have paid for).We need to generate a printed programme with the talk and speaker descriptions.We need some metadata in XML about the talks to put at the start of the videos.How are our attendee registrations per state/country?

contributing to open source

why do it?

what do you get out of it?

why an established project?

why this project?

PYTHONSMALLISH

DEVBASE

LARGEUSERBASE

CAN MEET FELLOW

DEVS

*

GOT USERS?

let's practice what we preach!

attention needed !

testing up-to-date idiomatic Python

un-LCA-ification proposal selection

scheduling (UI) dashboards

volunteer management mail merge / attendee lists integrated mobile interface

personalised schedule for attendees presentation feedback

getting started

Source: https://github.com/zookeepr/zookeepr

Mailing list:

http://lists.zookeepr.org - zookeepr-devel

IRC:irc://irc.freenode.org/#zookeepr

Issues tracker:https://github.com/zookeepr/zookeepr/issues

credits & thanks

● James Iseppi, for sharing a Zookeepr presentation he gave to Canberra LUG

● zookeepr logo from http://zookeepr.org/ (I don't know who made it but it's freaking adorable!)● screenshots, logos, covers and movie posters are © their respective copyright owners●Zookeeper book from Amazon.com

Anything left over can be considered © Brianna Laugher, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license.

zookeepr.orggithub.com/zookeepr

brianna@laugher.id.auidenti.ca/pfctdayelise

thanks!