collective.techevent 1.0.0b1

Support for implementing tech conference in a Plone site.

Tech Event Support for Plone (collective.techevent)

Content types, behaviors, and REST endpoints to build tech event sites (conference/symposium/seminar) in Plone.

Important: This backend package requires a Volto frontend with the addon @plone-collective/volto-techevent installed. The frontend consumes the endpoints and provides the UI for schedules, sessions, sponsors, and more.

Features

Content types

Event root

• Tech Event: Represents an event edition. Available if the site supports multiple editions, otherwise the Plone Site acts as the event root.

Location

• Venue: Location where the event takes place.
• Room: A room/auditorium inside a venue.

Event schedule

• Schedule: Folderish content to organize the event schedule.
• Keynote: Main presentation of the event.
• Talk: A session presentation.
• Training: A training/tutorial.
• Open Space: Open space session.
• Lightning Talks: Lightning talks session (supports listing each short presentation).
• Meeting: Meetings (e.g., Plone Foundation Annual Membership Meeting).
• Slot: Generic slot in the schedule (Registration, Group Photo, Party, etc.).
• Break: Coffee break or lunch time slot.
• Presenter: Presenter profile.

Sponsor support

• SponsorsDB: Folderish container for sponsoring information.
• SponsorLevel: Sponsoring package/level available for the event.
• Sponsor: Sponsor/supporter entry.

Behaviors

• collective.techevent.event_settings: Event configuration; marks content as IEventRoot.
• collective.techevent.schedule: Scheduling support for content items.
• collective.techevent.session: Basic session information.
• collective.techevent.presenter_roles: Presenter roles on a content item.

REST endpoints

• /@schedule (on event root): Returns the complete event schedule.
• /@sponsors (on event root): Lists all sponsors, grouped by package level.

See it in action

• Python Cerrado 2025
• Plone Conference 2025
• Python Brasil 2025

Installation

Considering you have a Plone project created with latest cookieplone, add collective.techevent as a dependency on the backend/pyproject.toml.

[project]
dependencies = [
  # ...existing dependencies...
  "collective.techevent",
]

Then run the installation with:

make install

Load the package ZCML (if not using auto-include) in dependencies.zcml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configure xmlns="http://namespaces.zope.org/zope">
  <!-- ...existing includes... -->
  <include package="collective.techevent" />
</configure>

Ensure the GenericSetup profile is installed (e.g., from your policy package metadata.xml):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<metadata>
  <version>1000</version>
  <dependencies>
    <!-- ...existing dependencies... -->
    <dependency>profile-collective.techevent:default</dependency>
  </dependencies>
</metadata>

Create your Plone site as usual and install the “Tech Event” add-on in the Add-ons control panel if not auto-installed.

Frontend requirement

This package is intended to be used with a Volto frontend:

• Install @plone-collective/volto-techevent in your Volto app.
• The Volto addon integrates with the endpoints and content types provided here.

Contribute

• Issue tracker
• Source code

Prerequisites ✅

• An operating system that runs all the requirements mentioned.
• uv
• Make
• Git
• Docker (optional)

Installation 🔧

1. Clone this repository.

   git clone [e-mail]:collective/tech-event.git
   

2. Install this code base.

   make install
   

License

GPLv2

Credits and acknowledgements 🙏

Generated from the cookieplone-templates template on 2025-05-14 00:29:28.. A special thanks to all contributors and supporters!