Hi Volker, thanks for your offer.<br>We have a different system for the submission offered by the conference company. Anyway we would love to maintain the voting system.<br>We need a moment to see how to proceed in this way before opening the all for proposal.<br>
I'll let you know<br>Lorenzo<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Volker Mische <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:volker.mische@gmail.com">volker.mische@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi All,<br>
<br>
I wanted to write this mail for a long time, but haven't had the time<br>
to. As you might know I was responsible for the 2009 Abstract/Workshop<br>
submission/voting system [1]. First we thought we would use OCS which<br>
was used in 2008, but it was hard to configure and not flexible at all.<br>
It's made for academic conferences and not for FOSS4G like conferences.<br>
<br>
So I decided to write my own system. I learned Django and was really<br>
happy with the result. The code base is relatively small for this amount<br>
of functionality. To come to the point of this mail: I won't have the<br>
time to do the same job for the 2010 conference.<br>
<br>
Here are the problems and solutions:<br>
- A decision must be made whether it will be used this year or not. I'd<br>
vote for yes (at least parts, see below :), as it was working, though it<br>
can be improved to do things in a smoother/more automated way (like<br>
opening/closing voting on a specific date). An alternative would be the<br>
system which was coded for the PyCon [2]. It uses Django as well (and<br>
I've used the survey part of it). It's always better to join forces, and<br>
I think if someone is willing to put some time into it, our system<br>
should be built upon the PyCon one (and just plug into the parts I've<br>
coded for the FOSS4G).<br>
- It was hosted at LISAsoft, it should be moved to the OSGeo<br>
infrastructure. I can help with the technical details (it should run as<br>
mod_wsgi, so a normal user can kill it if changed where made).<br>
- As I said I won't have much time for it, but I'll definitely support<br>
anyone who wants to step in (the code base is really small). You don't<br>
need to know anything about Django, it's really easy to learn if you<br>
know a bit of Python.<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Abstract_Submission_Software" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Abstract_Submission_Software</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://pycon.coderanger.net/" target="_blank">https://pycon.coderanger.net/</a><br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Volker<br>
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