@Giovanni: Is this payment system tightly integrated with the rest of the website or could it be replaced (e.g. externalized)?
@Filip: For the German PyCon conferences we built our own system that is based mostly around django-cms. Right now we are updating it for PyCon DE 2013 and it is available on https://bitbucket.org/PySV/pycon_de_website if you're interested :-) On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Giovanni Bajo <giova...@pycon.it> wrote: > Il giorno 10/gen/2013, alle ore 22:32, Filip Kłębczyk <fklebc...@gmail.com> > ha scritto: > > > I have another question. On the meeting where the board has been chosen > there was also a mention about EP conference registration web system to be > open sourced. I'm asking, because it could be potentially used also for > local PyCons websites. > > > There are two main hurdles with it: > > 1) The website is not meant to be a generic CMS, where people with no web > programming experience can setup a PyCon website. It still requires > proficiency in Django and HTML/CSS design. This also means that there is no > installation guides, and no clear separation points between specifities of > EuroPython and the generic part that could be reused. Our dream would be to > get to a point where EuroPython-specific code/templates are separated into > a different Django app, but we're not there yet. > > 2) We relay on an internal payment gateway / ticketing system which is a > large Python-based application (with different technologies, different DBs, > etc.) for the sole purpose of issuing payments (through PayPal) and > invoices. The system is indeed quite large, and we use only a small subset > of it; this is basically an incomplete transition, but I don't know if it > can be fixed this year. > > Moreover, the PSF has been quite uninterested in helping with this, > because they are already sponsoring a similar effort: the application that > powers the PyCon US website. You might as well look into it. > -- > Giovanni Bajo > > EuroPython 2012 > https://ep2012.europython.eu > > Python Italia APS > Non-profit association > Registered in Italy > > _______________________________________________ > EuroPython 2011 - Florence June 20-26 > http://ep2011.europython.eu/ > EuroPython mailing list > EuroPython@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython >
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