I was somewhat overwhelmed at the amount of people who are trying to use COD, and found out a bit of that first hand this weekend. I'm happy to say beta is coming along very nicely, and we've made some great progress in the past few months...
Thanks to the NYC Camp team for input and showing me how they've used COD for their site, I'm looking forward to integrating their improvements upstream, especially the dashboards. MongoDB was there, Jason working on Ticket Module, and Emilie has written a new base theme for COD based on Omega4.
What has happened since BAD Camp (the last COD sprint)?
1) Replaced Registration module with Ticket module.
Based from discussions at Drupalcamp DC 2012 (!?!?), PDX Drupalcon, and BadCamp, it became clear that registration module did not follow a model that would work well for generic event organization. Sponsored by MongoDB, the ticket module resembles the eventbrite data and UX model and makes it much easier to register multiple people have subevents, etc. This module is currently in use by Linuxfest Northwest for its 2014 conference, and it works fairly well for free registrations and simple paid registrations. Everything COD related to registration is inside cod_registration
2) Re-built the scheduler with new entities and a grid scheduler
Instead of a page full of random checkboxes, the scheduler is now usable. You can create a schedule template, throw BoFs, Sessions, and Schedule Items in, which lets you build out schedules for your sessions. At NYCcamp we de-coupled the event and session modules from the schedule, which now has its own module: cod_schedule.
3) Created a new base theme for COD, based on Omega4
Thanks to Emilie for making a generic base theme that we can start helping camps build subthemes for. This base theme will have many of the helper functions, like speaker names instead of usernames, nice colors, a responsive grid/column schedule, and more!
4) Beta -is- close to release
Here is the issue for reference: https://drupal.org/node/2188187
5) We need documentation!
I think this was the biggest request from everyone at the camp. Written and video how-tos would be useful.
We were getting close at NYC Camp to release a beta, but ran into some workflow issues late Sunday. Thanks Willy and Forrest for supplying late night beer Sunday to keep us going. I think we were there until 1:30am =P
Linuxfest Northwest is around the corner, and after the fest is done, Beta should be following shortly. 95% of LFNW is based on COD from NYCcamp, so much of the changes being made on the LFNW site can be backported directly to COD.
Thanks to NYC Camp for the sprint room, Acquia for flying me out, and MongoDB for resources and the hotel room.
PS. Details still coming for Drupalcon. I've received many E-mails from folks interested in sprinting at Austin, so we will probably do a sprint, but we just need to figure out where, when, and the format.