Very nice!
On Sep 18, 1:33 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > Conf2py is an Open Source Conference Management Software written in > Python > > License is GPL2 > Developed by Massimo Di Pierro > Support provided by MetaCryption LLC > > A slideshow presentation: > > http://www.slideshare.net/mdipierro/conf2py > > Download as a web2py app (includes source): > > http://conf2py.googlecode.com/files/web2py.app.conf2py.w2p > > Source only from google code: > > hg clonehttps://conf2py.googlecode.com/hg/conf2py > > BACKGROUND > ========== > > This software is a complete rewrite of the web2conf software developed > for PyCon US 2009 and used for registration at PyCon 2009, PyCon 2010 > and Flisol 2010. The reason for the rewrite include source code > simplification, added features, shift focus to more traditional > academic conferences. > > Conf2py is in production since August 2010 for the 6th High End > Visualization Workshop in Austria: > > http://vizworkshop.cct.lsu.edu/viz2010/ > > FEATURES > ======== > > - Single Sign-On using Open ID (Google) or OAuth (Facebook, MySpace, > etc.) via Janrain.com, or Local registration/login process. > - Conference Fee Payment with Credit Card via Authorize.Net (no need > for secondary login) > - Default registration fields include: first name, last name, email, > web page, address, company, profile text, image, type of registration, > optional tutorial registration (multiple tutorials supported), food > preferences, arrival date and departure date, accompanying family > members (for optional hotel pre-registration). The list of fields is > easily extensible. > - Configurable billing policy based on time dependent conferences rate > for different roles and variable number of tutorials/sessions. > - Configurable coupon discounts and coupon cancellation > - Users can register other users and pay for them. > > - First page displays a slideshow > - Arbitrary number of wiki pages using the markmin syntax > - Wiki pages allow embedding of widgets such as "comments" or "videos" > or "tagging" or "latex". > - Automatic computation of geographical latitude and longitude and > display of attendees on map. > > - Paper submission and review management with roles: author, editor, > review. Author submits an abstract (talk or paper proposal). The > editor may ask for a paper submission and assign a review of the paper > or abstract to one ore more reviewers. The communication between > editor and reviewer is invisible to the author. The identity of the > reviewer is invisible to the author. The editor, based on reviewer > recommendation can accept/reject a paper. Accepted papers are > automatically published (a paper can be in any format and can include > slides). > - Paper publishing with bibtex support > - Management interface with roles: manager, editor, reviewer, author > (same person can have multiple roles depending on the paper). > > We hope it will be useful. Let us know how we can improve it even > more. > > Massimo
