FOSS4G 2009 Abstract Submission Software

OCS isn't suitable for a non-scientific conference like the FOSS4G. It has all the features we don't need but not the features we need. Therefore the website team decided to code a custom solution based on Django. It's develped by User:Vmische.


 * Repository: http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/2009/django/
 * Instance for FOSS4G2009: http://dev.extranet.lisasoft.com/foss4g/
 * License: It'll be licensed under MIT.

Features

 * User accounts (with password reset, changing etc)
 * Abstract submissions with tags support for easier voting (incl. editing of already submitted Abstracts)
 * Nice admin interface (thank Django, not me)
 * Nice ajaxy interface to vote on Abstracts (that also works without JavaScript)
 * Pagination
 * Abstracts are presented to the user in random order, but the order is specific to the user

Missing Features

 * You can't sort the Abstracts as you like (e.g. by author).
 * You can't search the Abstracts

For next year

 * Make it possible to have more than one person per submission.
 * Store date when the Abstract was submitted