The exaltation and deposal of a modern warrior in fifty-seven
captivating chapters
2010-02-06 19:24:35 by
Doug Napoleone
Glad you like the app! I wrote it back in 2006 (used for pycon 2007, 2008 and now 2009). It is quite long in the tooth and needs a rewrite.
I have planned to move over to the icon way of selecting talks (just have not had time).
Some other interesting features that are not obvious:
The talk selections are stored in a cookie and are not communicated to the server as AJAX (CONFoo seems to be doing the same thing)
We parse the selected talk information and use it to track talk interest. (This came in handy back in 2007 when we had space restrictions and were able to move popular talks to the one room with more seating).
Volunteer management. The session chairs and runners are managed using the app.
Video and talk materials integration. Speakers can upload talk materials directly to the schedule. (see last years):
http://us.pycon.org/2009/conference/schedule/
There is a new json export of the information (will soon be updated)
http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/schedule/events.json
(mashup baby)
A volunteer has set up eitherpad integration which will arrive soon.
The printed out schedule is generated directly from this app and sent to the printer. (check out the print feature in the upper right hand corner).
We can print out room specific schedules to hang out side the conference rooms with the app.
We can print out custom speaker information handouts tailored to individual speakers including which volunteers they will be working with and their contact info.
We can print out custom info sheets for our session staff.
NOTE: WE NEED MORE SESSION STAFF!!!
http://us.pycon.org/2010/helping/session_staff/
In the end there are a ton of features built into it (not all of which are obvious). Features 5,6,9,10 are the only ones I did not have implemented for the 2007 conference... 9, 10 are from last year, and 5,6 are new this year.
Still need to find time to do a complete rewrite...
Glad you like the app! I wrote it back in 2006 (used for pycon 2007, 2008 and now 2009). It is quite long in the tooth and needs a rewrite.
I have planned to move over to the icon way of selecting talks (just have not had time).
Some other interesting features that are not obvious:
The talk selections are stored in a cookie and are not communicated to the server as AJAX (CONFoo seems to be doing the same thing)
We parse the selected talk information and use it to track talk interest. (This came in handy back in 2007 when we had space restrictions and were able to move popular talks to the one room with more seating).
Volunteer management. The session chairs and runners are managed using the app.
Video and talk materials integration. Speakers can upload talk materials directly to the schedule. (see last years): http://us.pycon.org/2009/conference/schedule/
There is a new json export of the information (will soon be updated) http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/schedule/events.json
(mashup baby)
A volunteer has set up eitherpad integration which will arrive soon.
The printed out schedule is generated directly from this app and sent to the printer. (check out the print feature in the upper right hand corner).
We can print out room specific schedules to hang out side the conference rooms with the app.
We can print out custom speaker information handouts tailored to individual speakers including which volunteers they will be working with and their contact info.
We can print out custom info sheets for our session staff.
NOTE: WE NEED MORE SESSION STAFF!!! http://us.pycon.org/2010/helping/session_staff/
In the end there are a ton of features built into it (not all of which are obvious). Features 5,6,9,10 are the only ones I did not have implemented for the 2007 conference... 9, 10 are from last year, and 5,6 are new this year.
Still need to find time to do a complete rewrite...
Thanks again, Doug, for these informations on how PyCon works behind the seen. I hope I will get to meet you in Atlanta.