MasonM / django-conference

django-conference is a conference and symposia management system

Overview

django-conference is intended to be a complete conference and symposia management system. It provides the functionality needed to organize conferences and allow attendees to register for the conference online.

Features

• Integrates with Django's user authentication system.
• Allows papers and session proposals to be submitted by any registered user.
• Easy-to-use admin interface for reviewing and approving sessions and papers.
• Customizable reporting engine to view registration and session/paper submission statistics.
• Highly customizable registration system that integrates with Stripe for payment.

Dependencies

• Python 2.7
• Django 1.8+
• django-autocomplete-light 3.0+

Installation

Run python setup.py install to install django-conference and any missing dependencies.

Using in an Existing Django Project

If you want to integrate django-conference with an existing project, follow these steps:

1. Add "django_conference" to the INSTALLED_APPS tuple in the project's settings.py file.
2. Add django-autocomplete-light to INSTALLED_APPS as detailed here.
3. Add (r'^conference/', include('django_conference.urls')) to the project's urls.py file.

Using Standalone

If you don't have an existing Django project, you'll need to create one. Use the project in the "example_project" directory as a starting point and customize the settings.py file for your server. See the following pages for more information:

• Deploying Django
• Django settings documentation