[Conferences] Which package do you use for your conference? - e.g.: Pinax-Symposion

[Mariano Reingart]

For web2conf we're working in callbacks to handle payments, it
originally supported Google Checkout but it was removed in order to
work in a more general, simpler and cleaner approach.
I think paypal also supports callbacks, if you want, we can try to
work together.

conf2py has built-in support for credit-car payments using Authorize.Net IIRC

BTW, web2conf was originally develeped by Massimo et. al., and also
I'm a core contributor of web2py currently maintaining web2conf ;-)

Best regards,

Mariano Reingart
http://www.sistemasagiles.com.ar
http://reingart.blogspot.com


On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually was just looking at the licenses, web2conf has a much better
> license than py2conf (New BSD vs GPL2)...
>
> So I will need to consider if it's worth my while deving with a
> license that restrictive... so I may just move to web2conf deving...
>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Mariano Reingart <reingart at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> In web2py we have almost two conference management systems:
>>>
>>> One is web2conf:
>>>
>>> https://code.google.com/p/web2conf/
>>>
>>> IIRC it was developed originally for PyCon US 2009 registration system.
>>>
>>> We're using it for PyCon Argentina, PyDays, PgDays and other events:
>>>
>>> http://ar.pycon.org/2012
>>> http://ar.pycon.org/2011
>>> http://ar.pycon.org/2010
>>> http://ar.pycon.org/2009
>>> http://www.pgday.com.ar/
>>> http://www.pyday.com.ar/
>>> http://www.jornadasregionales.org/
>>> http://www.ubucon.org.ar/2010
>>>
>>> I has a module to import former Django-based PyCon-tech system data
>>> (speakers, talks and statistics), we recovered our first conference
>>> sites (2009 and 2010) with it, as PyCon-Tech "died" (stopped working,
>>> eating the whole server memory)
>>>
>>> It fully supports:
>>>
>>> - social network login support (google, yahoo, twitter, facebook, etc.)
>>> - internationalization (English, Spanish, etc.)
>>> - Wiki (ReST)  and Wyswyg HTML CMS
>>> - navigation bar dynamic menu
>>> - talk proposal, review and schedule
>>> - attendee registration
>>> - mailing (notifications)
>>> - badge/certificate generation
>>> - sponsors sidebar and info page
>>> - speakers info page
>>> - statistics (attendee count, talk brief, maps, etc.)
>>> - slideshow
>>> - twitter and blog (rss) integration
>>>
>>> There is also a major rewrite called conf2py:
>>>
>>> http://code.google.com/p/conf2py/
>>>
>>> It has been used in academic conferences, as well as in PyCon
>>> Asia-Pacific 2011/2012 (and others):
>>>
>>> http://vizworkshop.cct.lsu.edu/viz2010/
>>>
>>> http://apac.pycon.org/2011/
>>> http://apac.pycon.org/2012/
>>>
>>>
>>> You only need web2py and no other external dependency.
>>> Most features are based on web2py provided ones (auth, login,
>>> translations, mailing, pdf, etc.), no need to install other packages.
>>>
>>> Only 1 file (layout.html) should be changed to use a diferent skin.
>>>
>>> Let me know if you're interested, maybe we can setup a mailing list or
>>> something similar (pycon-tech at python.org seems not active).
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Mariano Reingart
>>> http://www.sistemasagiles.com.ar
>>> http://reingart.blogspot.com
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Thanks, conf2py looks especially attractive, not just its
>> feature-list, but it's maintainer also. (the Prof. who core-devs
>> web2py).
>>
>> Looks like Pinax-Symposion will be quite for a little while whilst
>> PyCon 2013 commits get pushed, so I can put that to one side for now.
>>
>> The major problem I see with conf2py is its lack of PayPal support for
>> selling tickets. This will be my major focus when I start committing
>> :)
>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hiya folks,
>>>>
>>>> I'm considering getting my hands dirty in the development of a
>>>> web-based conference system.
>>>>
>>>> Pinax-Symposion seems to be the most used one? - I've requested a TODO
>>>> + feature-list here:
>>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pinax-symposion/m1RtRy0O2Y0
>>>>
>>>> Of all the open-source conference systems build with Python, which
>>>> would you recommend I devote my time to?
>>>>
>>>> All the best,
>>>>
>>>> Alec Taylor
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