Conference Organizing Distribution
In April, NASA CoLab released a Request For Proposal (RFP) for a Partnership Software which very explicitly requested the software to be built on an open source CMS, used for one particular use case, then packaged up and released as an installable application. We (Chapter Three LLC) recently won the contract with a Drupal solution, and our goal is to build an out-of-the-box "Drupal Product" that organizers can use to facilitate participatory conferences (ala Drupalcon, BarCamp etc.). The distro will support conference invitation, registration, session proposals + voting, note-taking, and forming post-conference working groups.
- COD Introduction - Vision, goals, and needs
- COD Use Cases - Different use cases in conference organizing the distribution will support.
- COD Design - Wireframes and site comps for the theme the distro will ship with
- COD Implementation Research - Unanswered implementation questions.
- COD Technical Specification - Drupal implementation specification for the different components (modules and theme)
- COD Modules and Configuration - Tracking all site configuration done in developing first instance of distro to use as a guide later when developing the install profile.
- COD Wishlisht - Feature requests for future versions.
- COD Todos - Todo list of COD development tasks
Download
Note: This is the initial check-in, it is buggy.
COD Introduction
Note: We are very excited to publicly kick off this project. We've been putting serious thought into how Drupal can be used to facilitate conference websites for some time. This is our vision for the project so far. It's a work in progress, so please do share your thoughts.
Creating a new installation profile from the DrupalCampLA conference website
The team at This By Them worked with LA Drupal organizers to design and develop a tremendously useful conference website, and released it under the GPL (see case study). With the advent of modules such as Patterns and Features, we are now able to turn this site into customizable/configurable installation profile.
About Session Control
Hi everybody,
i install COD and all needed modules. also i added a conference web form but when i open conference page i get an "Array". and i can't add session?
This is my demostration area look at: http://truvacin.com/conference/
also i attached a image about node/add/session link.
How i use COD completely stable?
Drupalcon DC - specific modules or install profile?
I've searched around and come up short. Can anyone tell me if dc2009.drupalcon.org was built on an existing conference module or installation profile?
How usable is Conference Organizing Install?
Hi!
We are considering to use Conference Organizing Install to manage an event here on Brazil and maybe expand with missed functionalities we consider usefull to our problem.
Looking in specs and screenshots CO seems to be a good starting point but it stills in development.
Thanks.
Edney Matias
Install: which modules?
One critical problem that seems to affect many people on installing this module is due to changes that have appeared in the webform module during the last year or so. So before turning your life into a nightmare make sure you are using: webform-5.x-1.7.tar.gz and nothing more recent than that.
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Looking for a ride Vancouver to Seattle Saturday night
I'm looking to catch a ride back to Seattle on saturday night after the conference. The 6pm amtrak seems to be sold out. anyone have room? or any ideas? any buses that leave later? (there is an amtrak bus leaving at 5:30pm)
Sessions scheduled a day later
Hi,
I've installed the Conference Organizing distro w. Drupal 5.2 and started to play with it. I've ran into the bug in the date module and applied the patch. Howewev, now I see that all sessions show up a day later in the schedule than where I've put them... Also, when I have only one session, it doesn't show up at all, only when I add a second session, a day later.
What's more, the dates are not in order on the schedule page... (shows up like this . * Wednesday, Jun 11, 2008 * Tuesday, Jun 10, 2008 * Thursday, Jun 12, 2008)
Did anyone encounter a similar thing?
thanks
changing proposed session to session?
I copied the COD theme to sites/all/themes and now the theme is back on. Not sure if that's kosher though.
Now I'm trying to change proposed sessions to regular sessions. Any tips on how to do that? I'd RTFM but there doesn't seem to be an FM ;-)
lost my conference theme and have errors
I've got COD running (still have a couple of errors to deal with (like the one below)). However, all of a sudden, the site wasn't pulling the conf theme css. When I go to admin/build/themes the conf theme (which I put in profiles/cod/themes as directed) doesn't show in the list of themes available. Is there somewhere else to define a theme for the conference?
Also, can anyone point me in the right direction about the following error when creating a new user:
Green Building conference solution assistance
We are seeking to create an integrated webinar system that incorporates a catalogue of possible topics, a calendar of sessions and various other resources that can automate the participation process. This system would integrate with a WebX type of program. Anyone out there that has some COD solutions, calendaring or other ways to execute this objective, please come forward:) Taking this to another level would be a virtual tradeshow….
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Installing COD experience and current wish-list
First off, I want to thank zacker and the other Chapter Three guys for the work they've done on this.
I wanted to first share how I've gotten the site up and running so far, the list some issues I've had, followed by a wish-list of features I'm looking for.
Installation Steps
I'm running drupal 5.2 and I just upgraded my php install to 5.2.4. I followed the install instructions with the following exceptions:
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We seek a website that performs the following functions:
* Users and non-users register for the conference, paying with credit card.
* Users can create profiles and add content.
NASACoLab.org / COD to be presented at DrupalCon
Just want to say thanks to Chapter3 for continuing to work diligently to make this distribution, and our upcoming NASACoLab.org instance of it, better and better. We'll be presenting about our use case and the challenges of deploying Drupal for the US government in general at DrupalCon next week in Barcelona: http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org/node/498
No valid conference days were found.
I am doing a fresh install (with the head version of the module - from 8/19/2007) I have created a new conference. When I go to the schedule I get a "No valid conference days were found" I can add sessions, but I cannot see the schedule. It seems that there is some structure or node that has the schedule for one day.
How do I add that.
p.s. I did check the dates on the conference and they are two consecutive days.
