Zookeepr: Home-grown conference management software
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zookeepr home grown conference management software by Brianna Laugher (pfctdayelise) for Pycon AU 2011
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A talk presented at PyCon AU 2011. Zookeepr ( http://zookeepr.org/ ) is a comprehensive web-based conference management system, written in Python and built on Pylons. It has an unusual development history: custom created for the annual Linux.conf.au conference, there are yearly spikes in event-focused feature development, but relatively little of the ongoing development typically seen in open source projects. This presentation is an introduction to the project, aimed at developers interested in contributing to a non-trivial open source project where meeting your fellow developers is quite possible, even likely, and your work is almost guaranteed to be seen and used each year by hundreds of Australia's most diehard geeks.
Transcript of Zookeepr: Home-grown conference management software
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.
