On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > fudcon.in now has a completely new look and more importantly, is brand > new under the hood. > > We faced a lot of limitations with the old Drupal 6.x instance that > fudcon.in was running on. Specifically, we found it difficult > (impossible?) to show the speaker bio in talks or any kind of rich > information in various pages. Finding support for Drupal COD 6.x was > next to impossible - the only response we got was "I don't think a lot > of people use COD 6.x anymore". > > So a couple of weeks ago we finally bit the bullet and made the move > to Drupal COD 7.x. The move was not easy because the two schemas are > not compatible at all. We could manage to migrate 6.x users to 7.x, > but we had to enter all of the content by hand once again and then > continuously check to make sure that we weren't losing any data. > > There are a few breaking changes due to this: > > 1. Non-accepted talks are no longer published. That is, you can see > your submission if you're logged in, but unless the session is > accepted, others won't be able to see your abstract. > > 2. The links for sessions have changed. This is because Drupal COD > 7.x introduced the concept of namespaces for conferences, putting all > sessions for that conference into a separate namespace. This is great > because it is now possible to seamlessly add conferences to the same > instance and have them coexist. > > Please try this website out and let us know if anything is broken. http://fudcon.in/fudcon-pune-2015/promote-fudcon says "FUDCon Pune 2011" instead of "FUDCon Pune 2015"
> We will be reaching out to speakers soon to let them know of the new > website and making sure that their experience with editing the > abstract or uploading slides is seamless. > > Siddhesh > -- > http://siddhesh.in > _______________________________________________ > india mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/india _______________________________________________ fudcon-planning mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning
