Collects requirements for the conference software.
Features
- Registration for the conference
- Scheduling
- Mapping of attendee locations
- Paper submissions
- Conference feedback
Users
- At a minimum, we must have a user's e-mail address so that we can contact them.
- Users can have multiple flags set: speaker, volunteer, session chair. (More such flags may be added.)
- Users can optionally supply their geographic location for mapping, paper mailings, and for inclusion on the badges.
- Attendee e-mail addresses can be exported in order to add them to a conference mailing list.
Paper submission
- Users can submit proposals.
- Some users have 'reviewer' status and can look at other people's proposals.
- Some users have 'organizer' status and can mark proposals as 'accepted' or 'declined', and can set a scheduled time/location.
- Proposals have: title, summary/abstract, description, category, length (30/45 min), difficulty level (beginner/intermediate/advanced), a list of 3 assigned reviewers, an accepted boolean, a list of reviewer comments, and a list of uploaded documents.
- On being submitted, proposals are assigned 3 reviewers at random. If the author has reviewer status, the author must not be one of the assigned reviewers.
- Reviewers can vote +1, -1, +0, -0, or 'no vote' on proposals, with a mandatory comment. These comments are not shown to authors until after the selection process is complete.
- Reports: all proposals, all proposals with fewer than 3 votes, all proposals with 3 or more votes grouped by their votes (all positive, all negative, a mixture).
- Reviewers can enter comments that will be e-mailed to the author. Authors can add replies to these comments.
- One-time operation: Authors can be e-mailed the review comments written about their reports.
- One-time operation: Authors are e-mailed the accept/decline decision about their proposal.
Registration
Must able to produce a list of attendees, showing attendee name, T-shirt size, food preferences if any, include in delegate listing Y/N, permission to e-mail about PyCon Y/N, paid/unpaid Y/N, certain special flags (e.g. speaker/session/chair) so we can hand them the right swag bag and info.
- Can charge the user's credit card for the appropriate amount. Or attendees can be marked as 'unpaid', and they must then mail a cheque to the PSF.
- Must support different prices for students and non-students.
- Keeps or can generate the total revenue for the conference.
- Badge information must be exportable (or maybe we can produce PDF for printing).
- Badges must show: user's name, certain flags (speaker, session chair, volunteer).
- Badges can optionally show the attendee's organization and home location, at the attendee's choice.
- Attendees can register for the conference and optionally for tutorials.
- The software should track the number of attendees for each tutorial, closing registration once the tutorial has filled up.
- Tutorial money may need to be refunded if a tutorial is cancelled.
- Tutorial may need to be switched to another if cancelled?
- Maybe they specify 1, 2, ... preference for am and pm, and we refund only when no preferred tutorial is available? * Multiple attendees can be registered in one operation and charged to the same credit card. A maximum of 3 attendees is sufficient.
- Registrants can optionally donate an amount to the PSF.
- Admin: add a registrant without charging a credit card. (We still need to count free attendees for T-shirt counts, hotel bookings, etc.)
- Reports: list of all publicly visible registrants, list of all registrants (admin only), list of unregistered speakers.
- Export presentation materials into a directory tree that can be turned into the conference proceedings.
Mapping
Use frapper?: http://www.frappr.com/django/
- google maps integrated
- supports foreign countries
- comment and interest tags per entry
- map 'pin' locations sent via compliant XML (to work with other google stuff)
- multiple types of 'pins' (different colors, shapes):
- Person
Sponsor of PyCon
- Corporation (employer of engineers with python experience)
- Python Users Group
- Zoom Group (see next bullet)
- When zoomed out merge multiple overlapping pins into one Zoom Group 'pin'
- support search and filter of pins by interest tag and pin type
Scheduling
- Produce printable schedules for the entire conference, and for individual rooms for a given day.
- Track session chairs for each session.
Sponsors
- Sponsors can fill in a form with contact information that gets stored in a list and also e-mailed to the sponsorship coordinator.
- (Admin) The coordinator can enter sponsors who've committed: contact info, sponsorship level (platinum/gold/silver), invoice number, paid Y/N, web graphic, banner provided Y/N, banner received Y/N, comments on where the banner should be displayed.
Feedback
- Forms for the entire conference, and for specific talks and tutorials. (Sprints aren't of interest.)
- Report: feedback summary for the conference, summaries for individual talks.
- E-mail authors with the results from their talk's feedback.