Comments on: Building a conference website

By: Tarique Sani

Tarique Sani — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:12:24 +0000

Hey Anna, any chance of seeing the scheduling backend? Having written a similar app eons ago (well 4 years ago) the most difficult part is scheduling talks with no clash of timing as well as topics…

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:57:05 +0000

I actually thought about one day cleaning up my code and release it as open-source.

I don’t think that conference organizers would agree to SaaS, because they want to control their data and possibly extend the app to suit their needs.

As for joind.in, it’s currently way too basic, even for talk feedback. That is why I’m going to simply send data gathered from confoo.ca via an API.

By: LornaJane

LornaJane — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:12:56 +0000

I agree that joind.in is the closest thing currently in use and its a must-have for attendees, speakers and organisers – it would be great to see some collaboration on future requirements for joind.in and further contributions to grow that application in the directions we collectively would use.

By: Thijs Feryn

Thijs Feryn — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:37:46 +0000

Instead of building a generic conference app, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to create a multi-tenant app that allows conference organisers to use in a SaaS way.

We have a github and a sourcefourge, why not a “conferencehub”? Could this be an extra feature/purpose for Joind.in?

By: kiang

kiang — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:38:35 +0000

What about this: http://drupal.org/node/519100

Although I’m also willing to see a solution based on Symfony, it’s not a good idea to put more time reinventing the same wheels.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:43:51 +0000

If such a package would be built I would gladly use it…

By: Ivo

Ivo — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:12:56 +0000

We’re all reinventing the same wheels. Although we’re not using many of the tools you mention for #dpc10 (there’s a lot of stuff that an ordinary spreadsheet solves just fine), but still we’re building similar features and planning an overhaul next year. Every conference uses the same concepts on their websites, and we all seem to want to build everything from scratch.

Maybe it’s an idea to join forces and build a conference website package that conference organizers can help extend and build upon?

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:45:56 +0000

Thanks for the mention of Joind.in! I’m glad the community has found it a useful resource. Oh, and if anyone’s looking for more details on that API, check out this page http://joind.in/api