[Local-chapters] [OSGeo-Conf] OS conference platform

[María Arias de Reyna]

Hi,

Good to start this already!

For those of you who were not on the codesprint: the talk about
deploying an open source stack for conference management software in
OSGeo was to have a tool not only for the international event but also
for local and regional events. If I'm not mistaken, the stack
suggested was the same used in FOSSGIS (?) and has ticketing system,
program planning and mobile app:
https://pretix.eu/about/en/

I wasn't the full conversation so maybe there were more options discussed there.

In my opinion, we should get rid of Attendify ASAP. For a start, it is
not GDPR compliant (!!!!!), it has a strong vendor lock-in and, what
is worse, costs a lot of money every year (compared with open source
options) :-/ Let's apply what we always say of using "licensing" money
to extend and own the open source software :)

At the same time, we could suggest options but we shouldn't force any
decision over the LOCs because maybe in some countries the software
stack chosen is not available/feasible/useful/possible for who knows
what reason. Thinking for example on blocked countries of the origin
company.

Cross-posting to the local-chapters mailing list, where I think the
conversation was going to take place once people arrive at home. So in
case someone is there, conversation just started! Also there was
movement to start some shared knowledge between regional chapters
about how to build community and organize events. But maybe that
should continue only on the local-chapters mailing list?

Thanks for bringing this up!
María.

On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 4:59 PM Gavin Fleming <gavin at kartoza.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> The topic of consistent conference infrastructure came up again at Bucharest, with the emphasis on giving conference teams maximum space to focus on the conference rather than selecting and building new back-ends each time. I’ve recently experienced ‘Open Source Event Manager’ [1] through my interaction with the Postgresconf coming up in Johannesburg [2]. It was a pleasant and slick experience and seems to do most of what a FOSS4G would need.
>
> If we like it (or something else) we could specify it for 2021 (along with Attendify which seems to be and accepted component now)
>
> Gavin
>
> [1] https://github.com/PostgresConf/pgem, which is a fork of https://github.com/openSUSE/osem
> [2] https://postgresconf.org/
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