On Do, 2016-02-25 at 12:47 +0100, Tobias Mueller wrote:
Hi. On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:18:53AM +0100, Benjamin Berg wrote:* AGREED: regcfp will be our software for registration and CfP unless this should be revisited for good reasons next weekAs for the CfP system: Do we know from the VoCCC how much a frab would make their and our lives easier? Or do they expect it even? From what I can see from all the other CCC events the integration of the list of talks with the video page is reasonably good. So you can see the video from the talk in the schedule and vice versa.
This simply requires an XML export of the schedule in the defined format. https://c3voc.de/schedulexml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/voc/schedule/master/validator/xsd/schedule.xml.xsd Looks pretty straight forward. Basically defines the conference, each day, then the rooms and in there each talk.
I've seen it working for events ranging from a handful of talks (FifFkon), to a few dozen (mrmcd), up to a few hundred (FOSDEM, CCCongress). My feeling is that frab is pretty much the standard nowadays. The main feature I see is that it exports static HTML which is good for security and archival purposes. That alone makes me suggest to use Frab in the future for collecting submissions and managing the schedule.
The advantages of regcfp: * Seems to work well for us (i.e. paper team, registration/badges) * People already know the system * We have the author supporting it for us I don't want to block a move to something else. However, I don't really see schedule archives as a big enough reason to move considering we would need someone to: * figure everything out (badges, cfp, schedule, registration, payment) * evaluate which solution is really better * set it up on our servers * be dedicated to maintain it in the runup to the conference (and that should really be a non-core team person) And that has to happen before we open the CfP … Benjamin
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