[TOS] Looking for help with developing software for SIGCSE student volunteer coordination

[Dave Neary]

Hi,

DrupalCon, like this year's Desktop Summit,  was run on COD. It was OK,
but not perfect, for us.

Cheers,
Dave.

"Mel Chua" <mel at redhat.com> wrote:

>>> 2) Do you know of open source software that might be a candidate
>>> for using/modifying for this project?  If so, I would be pleased to
>>> hear your suggestions or ideas.
>
>I think the suggestion of contacting existing FOSS conferences and 
>asking what they use is a great first step for students (user
>research!)
>
>A few initiatives I do know about:
>
>PyCon - http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-tech (may be old,
>
>last time I was active on that list was something like 2 years ago)
>
>Drupal - http://groups.drupal.org/event-management-systems, and at
>least 
>one other person is trying to work on a related problem 
>(http://mavergames.org/content/drupal-event-management-system) -- the 
>interesting thing with both Python and Drupal is that they are 
>communities likely to dogfood -- that is to say, "Drupal is a likely 
>choice for a platform to build a conference system with... what does
>the 
>Drupal community use for their own conferences and gatherings?"
>
>Lather, rinse, repeat for other languages/platforms you might be 
>interested in investigating (Django, etc.)
>
>--Mel
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Dave Neary
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