collective.conferences 0.4

A Conference Management System for Plone

Contents

• Introduction

• Changelog

  • 0.4 (2020-09-30)

  • 0.3 (2020-09-22)

  • 0.2 (2020-08-29)

  • 0.1 (2020-07-10)

Introduction

The goal of this Plone add-on is to provide a framework for the organization of conferences.

The add-on creates a content type conferencespeaker inside a speaker folder. The speaker folder could be created at every place on the Plone site. A conferencespeaker is restricted to a speaker folder.

The site admin can create a conference program and as much tracks as needed inside this program. The title of the tracks will be indexed to the portal_catalog.

The site admin could create a page for the call for papers. The call for papers object provides a field to add topics for the conference program. It’s view template provides for anonymus user the information that they need to create an account on the site and the link to the register form. If a user is already linked in she/he gets the links to submit a new talk or workshop proposal. This proposal will be placed into a talksfolder or a workshopfolder in the root of the site. The papers - talks or workshops - will be reviewed and assigned to a track. The reviewers or site admins will set a number for the order in this track too.

The view of a track creates a dynamic listing of its talks and workshops, ordered by the ordering number a reviewer/site admin set for each talk. The listing (table) will submit information about start time of every talk and its subject too. The track view holds information about its time slot (begin and end) and the conference room where it take place. The name of the room is linked to the appropriate room object thus the audience could get very easy information about its location (the room object has spaces to provide such information including a picture of the room).

The conference rooms are merged into a roomfolder, which could be placed everywhere on the site.

The conference program shows a list of all conference tracks with their title, description and dates. The tracks had to fit inside the program timeslot. The editor of a track will get an error message, if this isn’t the case.

There is also a section for the registration of people who want to attend the conference. It is necessary to create an account on the site, before one could register for the conference.

The add-on is currently in a alpha status. Further improvemments and missing features will be added in the near future. Help in this development would be appreciated.

Note: place names and roles of the people who contribute to this package

in this file, one to a line, like so:

• Andreas Mantke, Original Author

Changelog

0.4 (2020-09-30)

• Fix view templates of twfolder, track and program if speaker, track or conference room is not set [Andreas Mantke]

• Fix textes on the attendeefolder view template [Andreas Mantke]

• Add function to set start and end time of talks, tracks and conference breaks [Andreas Mantke]

• Update localization files and German localization [Andreas Mantke]

0.3 (2020-09-22)

• Add documentation about the conference registration [Andreas Mantke]

• Add new page for conference registration [Andreas Mantke]

• Add new mail form for conference registration [Andreas Mantke]

• Move options for conference fee and bank accounts to the controlpanes, make a vocabulary from this accounts and register it as utility [Andreas Mantke]

• Move view templates to a common folder [Andreas Mantke]

• Update localization files and German localization [Andreas Mantke]

• Add Python versions 3.6 and 3.8 to the test matrix of Travis CI [Andreas Mantke]

0.2 (2020-08-29)

• Move functions for validation of email to the common module [Andreas Mantke]

• Add validation for email to attendee module [Andreas Mantke]

• Improve edit mode of talk and workshop module with register for slides, files and video [Andreas Mantke]

• Add Barceloneta theme class to table on the program and track view [Andreas Mantke]

• Update localization files and German localization [Andreas Mantke]

• Add first version of user documentation, source, HTML and PDF file format [Andreas Mantke]

• Add a new workflow for conference talks and workshops. [Andreas Mantke]

• Add registry.xml, controlpanel.xml to unistall profile [Andreas Mantke]

• Renaming of the controlpanel [Andreas Mantke]

• Use safe_unicode instead of unicode for strings. [Andreas Mantke]

• Add fields to configure allowed file extensions for images, videos, slides and additional material and corresponding validators [Andreas Mantke]

• Add unique title validators for talks and workshops [Andreas Mantke]

• Add content types for conferencebreakfolder and talksworkshopfolder [Andreas Mantke]

0.1 (2020-07-10)

• Package created first using zopeskel and manually added and edited to make it working with Python 3 and current Plone 5.2.x