Re: [guadec-list] Schedule Calendars



On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 16:56 -0400, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 15:55 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 15:44 +0200, Goran Rakic wrote:
> > > Are tables with schedule done by hand or data is pulled from some
> > > database?
> > 
> > By slow and painful manual HTML editing in a tiny HTML entry field.
> > 
> > Next year I fully support the use of Expectnation (the software which
> > runs the X-Tech site) instead of Drupal...
> 
> ¿Does Expectnation support retrieval of historical information?
> 
> The problem with Drupal is from one year to another, the links
> to (lets call 'historical information') gets broken.
> 
> For instance, http://2006.guadec.org doesn't respect the semantic
> of the previous years.  AFAIU, it's not as easy to do with Drupal.

Each conference is archived and always available as I understand it.
Basically it's a conference management system, not a generic CMS with
some random pages in.

The only flaw with Expectnation is that it is closed source, although
the author has said that is open to giving a free license to GUADEC (the
main author is Edd Dumbill, a previous GNOME hacker).

Ross
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