ConCentric Convention Scheduling Software

Leanne Velhurst just finished showing me ConCentric, an online system she created for scheduling events, presenters and locations at the Capricon science fiction convention I am attending right now. It does everything that I want CREM to do.

1. Convention settings page automatically generates your drop-down list of start times, from 3 pieces of data:

• start day/time
• end day/time
• timeslot length

3. Catches conflicts of:

• rooms
• times
• participants
• equipment

5. Auto-generates:

• complete detailed schedule for the program book
• spreadsheet for website/pocket program
• individual schedules for presenters

7. As many user accounts as desired

...and so much more. Does she want to open-source it? YES, she will! Here's the thing. It's written in PHP under the CodeIgniter web framework. At this point CREM, being so close in desired features, could be considered a re-implementation of ConCentric in Python. In the interim we can get Penguicon up and running on ConCentric, hopefully as soon as possible.

Comments

ext_525847 on Feb. 22, 2009 2:26 AM

is good people.

ext_119840 on Feb. 24, 2009 9:15 PM

Let's do this thing!