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.
Conferences are information age agorae -- real life marketplaces where information and ideas are exchanged and friendships and connections are made. In person convening are the most exciting, effective, and efficient ways for professionals to forge and strengthen personal connections. The conference organizing distro we are creating is being designed to seamlessly facilitate conferences in a way that can fully tap into the passions and motivations of the attendees and organizers, and drive towards measurable outcomes in terms of discussions and action items coming out of meetings and connections made between participants.
Goals
Organizers and sponsors convene conferences to reach their people. People attend conferences to make connections.
The distro will facilitates conferences by
- Giving organizers dead simple ways to organize their conference online
- Helping attendees plan who to talk to, make new connection, bring the excitement and action points from the conference back home
- Allowing sponsors and organizers more effective ways of interacting and facilitating collaboration with their audience
Needs
Website needs of a conference organizer
- Logistics - directions and lodging
- Registration
- Attendees - publish who will be attending
- Schedule for conference - proposing, rating, and scheduling sessions
- Presenters - publish information about presenters
- Content creation and capture - presentations, notes, and media
- Sponsors - highlighting / advertising sponsors
- Announcements - updates for attendees
- Working groups - creating and facilitating working groups
- Discussions - online discussions before, during, and after conference
- Merchandise
Website needs for a conference participant
- Networking - making new connections
- Promotion - self, ideas, products
- Talent - finding people to work with
- Collaboration - starting, collaborating, and recruiting for projects w/ attendees
Comments
E-mail lists tied to web site
E-mail to forum integration (and forum to e-mail list) I've found requested by every group that wants to keep in touch. Thoughts on implementation that could go in a distribution, or be an option for those with some more technical resources?
~ ben melançon
member, Agaric Design Collective
http://AgaricDesign.com - "Open Source Web Development"
benjamin, agaric
This is what I'm looking for
I'm helping with a big conference planning. This package sounds great.
I'm using a hosting server with auto installation. I could not follow the instruction to create a profile before installing Drupal. So what I did was to put all the required modules in /sites/all/modules folder. Do you think this will work?
Cannot Install Conference Organizing Distribution
I have followed all the installation instructions except the one below, I do not know how to do that
"Go to the 'profiles/cod/modules/pearwiki_filter' directory and execute the command:
cvs -d :pserver:cvsread@cvs.php.net:/repository checkout -d Text pear/Text_Wiki/Text"
I tried to do the rest of the installation without the step above, but it did not work.
Will someone help me, I think this is a very good module.
Thanks in advance.
This command requires CVS
Are you using a Mac? If so, this video might help you get through http://www.lullabot.com/videocast/install_cvs_mac_osx
how to create a conference?
Hi,
maybe it's obvious, but I'm installing it the third time (first using Drupal 5.6, then 5.2) and still cannot see where can I create a conference....
Could someone please point me in the right direction?
thanks
me too
i was so proud of myself for actually getting everything installed. but that feeling was quickly dashed when i realized i had no idea of what to do next.
any guidance would be appreciated.
Start by going
Start by going here:
node/add/webform
Fill in the fields... if you are successful, you then add sessions to your conference. But one step at a time...
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Drupal user page: http://drupal.org/user/34423
Feedback from satisfied customers: http://drupal.org/node/180284
any hope for this COD to work ?
i really liked the idea.its the first and unique cms which will do such a great useful project.
i hope developpers wont decieve us.im waiting for a really working version of the COD.
i stopped my installation in this step :
"Go to the 'profiles/cod/modules/pearwiki_filter' directory and execute the command:
cvs -d :pserver:cvsread@cvs.php.net:/repository checkout -d Text pear/Text_Wiki/Text"
i dont know how to execute it !! plz drupal experts help me.
i hope i got an answer for that.
thanks for all contributors.
Hi, you need to have
Hi,
you need to have ssh/telnet access to the server you want to deploy COD at. Then you can log in via ssh/telnet, go to that directory and just type in the command and press enter...
The key is the ssh access....
cheers
peter
cygwin ?
thanks peter for answering me.
i found somewhere that i could use cygwin.
is that what i need ?
i installed it, and i executed the command given upside.
error "batch : :cvs command not found "
how should i use this terminal ?
have i to enter to the directory of pearwiki before i execute the command ? how to do it.
i downloaded all pear packages mentioned in the readme file.what to do now? how to cvs them with cygwin ?
i know i posted a lot of "how"s.
i really need to make this work.
thanks a lot.
I don't think so...
... I use a mac, so I don't really know cygwin, but on windows you need something like telnet or PuTTY. Using these, you need to log in to the server you use (like ssh -l or at with telnet: open ), then go to the modules pearwiki dir (if I remember correctly) and then run the CVS command...
A better option would be to have someone install this COD thing on a server, then zip the whole thing and export the database, which you can just upload via ftp and phpmyadmin... (you'll need to do some configuration by hand, however)
deseperate
hi
i have two requests for the developpers responsable:
i have enough !!!
install script
Hi,
you can find an install script here: http://drupal.org/files/issues/cod_install_init.tar_.gz If you have SSH access to your server, just copy it to the directory you want to install Drupal + COD and chmod it to executable (755), then run it. When it have finished, install it as you qould install Drupal normally.
You'll need to create a database and then type in the parameters at the Drupal install.
hope it helps
cheers
peter
Help with this system for money
Hi COD developers,
I need this system, seems it is still need work. I am ready to pay something to have this system installed and worked. Who could help?
I have made it work (almost)
... and sure it needs some more work to have a smooth install experience.. The scheduling part has a bug I couldn't find yet, otherwise it works for me... Just drop me a mail if I can help
cheers
peter
I *almost* have it working too
Based on the shell script that peteror posted I created something to install the profile onto a windows machine.
I'm fairly new to Drupal and PHP but am fluent in Java. I manage all my projects using the Apache Ant build tool (sorry, I'm must not sold on Maven for small projects). I created a build environment that deploys the profile and all of the modules into a downloaded (but not installed) version of Drupal.
The first thing I noticed was that the shell script specified Drupal 5.3. I had been trying to work with version 5.8 and because I was encountering a problem during the install (a php error about a failed insert into the blocks table) I tried rolling back to version 5.3.
Next, I made sure that I downloaded the specific versions of the modules that the script grabs with wget.
The next time I ran it I still got the error. As I do all my development using Eclipse I did a search for the query string to see if I could find what was causing the error. The culprit turned out to be the Chatroom module, and specifically the chatroom.install script. When it does an insert into the blocks table it doesn't insert the "pages" or "title" fields. Adding those two fields to the insert statement with empty strings for the values fixed the problem.
I still got a WSOD but there were no errors in the watchdog log and the site appears to be working.
Re: I *almost* have it working too
Hi,
Yep, this thing still needs a lot of patience.. You should look into the cod module (sites/all/modules/conference_organizing/conference_organizing.module there is a reference to nasa_custom_toggle() function - line 1711 - that you should comment out..)
See more here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/6543 lots of good info there.
Recommendation needed
I'm researching Drupal options for a client who runs an event management business, and your distro seems to have many useful features we are looking for. However, we would need to integrate this with other modules too such as e-commerce, signup and several others.
I'd need to know if it's possible to integrate this distro with other Drupal modules, and how difficult it would be. What would you recommend in this case?
Any comments will be highly appreciated.
Btw, congrats to COD developers and keep the good job!