Re: [school-discuss] Open Source Management System for Conventions needed?

["David M. Bucknell" <dbucknell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I love using/learning drupal and teach about/recommend it frequently  
(and am impressed by the thought that's gone into drupalEd (at  
funnymonkey.com -- by the way).  I will look into the Drupal modules  
you list.

A bit of searching discovered this, which looks interesting, too:

https://espace.cern.ch/indico-soft/default.aspx

It appears to be built on top of Zope.

My view on this question, with a focus on primary and secondary  
education, is that there is a need for easy registration and room  
assignment.  The college-university folks seem to have done a lot on  
the paper submission and review process.  Many tools for the latter  
but not many, and none perfect, that I've found for the former.

This is an important area for those of us who want to get together and  
host open source schools/ed conferences -- or just conferences for  
education using affordable, strong tools.

My view is, then, that there is, indeed, a need.

--
David

----- Message from bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------
    Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:20:04 -0700
    From: Bill Fitzgerald <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Subject: Re: [school-discuss] Open Source Management System for  
Conventions needed?
      To: schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


> There is a version of this that already exists for Drupal -- see
> http://drupal.org/project/cod and
> http://groups.drupal.org/conference-organizing-distribution
>
> It definitely needs some work, but this would be one way to accomplish
> this and leverage existing development within a thriving OS community.
>
> And with that said, there are a few other ways of accomplishing similar
> goals within Drupal -- there are two ecommerce packages within Drupal,
> and a few different ways of setting up event registration. The
> ecommerce solutions have several options for processing online payments.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
>
> dhhoward@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Could do PTA auctions/fund raisers, including credit card swipes   
> > for purchases?  Very expensive proprietary software is typically   
> > required for this nowadays.
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> > -------------- Original message ----------------------
> > From: "Les R" <openadmin@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I was wondering if there was any perceived need for an open source
> > > system to manage a convention of some sort including online
> > > registration for workshops and concurrent sessions, mailback
> > > confirmations, various reports, admin interface, that sort of thing.
> > >
> > > I have an existing system that I've used for several years, but was
> > > wondering if it might be useful to others. I was considering helping
> > > adapt this to the Ottawa Linux Symposium (OLS) but was wondering about
> > > others...
> > >
> > > Your views?
> > >
> > > Les Richardson
> > > Open Admin for Schools
>
>
> --
>
> Bill Fitzgerald
> http://funnymonkey.com
> FunnyMonkey -- Tools for Teachers
> ph. 503 897 7160


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