No misunderstanding on my part. I think it is great you are doing this
and I hope to see some great results. Perhaps in a year you may even
switch to mine. :D
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BR,
Jason
On 05/29/2011 12:14 AM, Mariano Reingart wrote:
Jason:
I did want to announce the project status, maybe it is useful to other
people and we can join forces, or not, maybe it is wise to move on
conf2py.
But please don't misunderstand me, I don't want to blame anyone, I
think this project was and is important to web2py, so it is not good
to let it die, I just want to open the discussion.
I think they are two different approaches:
web2conf: simpler, easy registration (no password, no payment support,
may be provided by external apps), no formal review process (although
I would like implement attendee talk rating, prior and post
conference, to help select talks and good speakers), automatic
schedule generation (timetable), pdf badges and certificates.
conf2py: more advanced, with focus to more traditional academic
conferences (Conference Fee Payment, Configurable billing policy,
Configurable coupon discounts and coupon cancellation, Users can
register other users and pay for them, Paper submission and review
management with roles: author, editor, review, Paper publishing with
bibtex support)
BTW, You can see the merging issue for further information:
http://code.google.com/p/web2conf/issues/detail?id=4
Regards,
Mariano Reingart
http://www.sistemasagiles.com.ar
http://reingart.blogspot.com
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Jason Brower<[email protected]> wrote:
I think that is something to bring up in a personal email. At least I would
think so.
Anyway, I am excited to see where this project can go as well, as I am
creating my own conferencing tool in web2py. InterestID.
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Best Regards,
Jason Brower
On 05/28/2011 10:44 PM, Mariano Reingart wrote:
Yarko/Massimo and web2py community:
This year, web2py will host the (inter)-national Python conference
here in Argentina, using web2conf:
http://ar.pycon.org/2011
Indeed, it is replacing pycon-tech, the django app, that not only was
old, complex and unmaintainable, but also died suddenly (no more
render request, eating 100% CPU, in two different machines and setups,
we don't know why...), so I'm preparing a migration tool to get
attendee and talks information imported into web2py app.
Also web2conf is running for the second year the Free Software
Regional Conferences (where Massimo attended last year):
http://www.jornadasregionales.org/jrsl2011
http://www.jornadasregionales.org/jrsl2010v2
it helped for the first Ubuntu Conference here in my country:
http://www.ubucon.org.ar/2010
and is serving 4 Python Days (one currently open, other to come):
http://www.pyday.com.ar/rafaela2010
http://www.pyday.com.ar/buenosaires2010
http://www.pyday.com.ar/cordoba2011
http://www.pyday.com.ar/catan2011
I'm hosting the code in my clone of web2conf, as I doesn't have access
to the main repository:
http://code.google.com/r/reingart-web2conf/
That is not enough, we cannot upload documentation nor downloadable
files and we cannot use issue tracking system.
I know that PyCon US decided not to use web2conf, and Massimo started
a fork (conf2py) with other goals, but I think web2conf has proven to
be a suitable for at least our conferences style, and, as you can see,
it is not inactive as states the project page.
So please, if you agree, could you give me admin access to main project
site:
http://code.google.com/p/web2conf/
Best regards,
Mariano Reingart
http://www.sistemasagiles.com.ar
http://reingart.blogspot.com
