[Foss4g2010] Abstract Submission/Voting/Survey System

[Lorenzo Becchi]

Hi Volker, thanks for your offer.
We have a different system for the submission offered by the conference
company. Anyway we would love to maintain the voting system.
We need a moment to see how to proceed in this way before opening the all
for proposal.
I'll let you know
Lorenzo

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Volker Mische <volker.mische at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I wanted to write this mail for a long time, but haven't had the time
> to. As you might know I was responsible for the 2009 Abstract/Workshop
> submission/voting system [1]. First we thought we would use OCS which
> was used in 2008, but it was hard to configure and not flexible at all.
> It's made for academic conferences and not for FOSS4G like conferences.
>
> So I decided to write my own system. I learned Django and was really
> happy with the result. The code base is relatively small for this amount
> of functionality. To come to the point of this mail: I won't have the
> time to do the same job for the 2010 conference.
>
> Here are the problems and solutions:
> - A decision must be made whether it will be used this year or not. I'd
> vote for yes (at least parts, see below :), as it was working, though it
> can be improved to do things in a smoother/more automated way (like
> opening/closing voting on a specific date). An alternative would be the
> system which was coded for the PyCon [2]. It uses Django as well (and
> I've used the survey part of it). It's always better to join forces, and
> I think if someone is willing to put some time into it, our system
> should be built upon the PyCon one (and just plug into the parts I've
> coded for the FOSS4G).
> - It was hosted at LISAsoft, it should be moved to the OSGeo
> infrastructure. I can help with the technical details (it should run as
> mod_wsgi, so a normal user can kill it if changed where made).
> - As I said I won't have much time for it, but I'll definitely support
> anyone who wants to step in (the code base is really small). You don't
> need to know anything about Django, it's really easy to learn if you
> know a bit of Python.
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Abstract_Submission_Software
> [2] https://pycon.coderanger.net/
>
> Cheers,
>  Volker
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