ConCentric Convention Scheduling Software
Leanne Velhurst just finished showing me ConCentric, an online system she created for scheduling events, presenters and locations at the Capricon science fiction convention I am attending right now. It does everything that I want CREM to do.
- Convention settings page automatically generates your drop-down list of start times, from 3 pieces of data:
- start day/time
- end day/time
- timeslot length
- Catches conflicts of:
- rooms
- times
- participants
- equipment
- Auto-generates:
- complete detailed schedule for the program book
- spreadsheet for website/pocket program
- individual schedules for presenters
- As many user accounts as desired
...and so much more. Does she want to open-source it? YES, she will!
Here's the thing. It's written in PHP under the CodeIgniter web framework. At this point CREM, being so close in desired features, could be considered a re-implementation of ConCentric in Python. In the interim we can get Penguicon up and running on ConCentric, hopefully as soon as possible.
Comments
brendand on Feb. 22, 2009 2:26 AM
is good people.
rbradakis on Feb. 24, 2009 9:15 PM
Let's do this thing!
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