bcholmes / Zambia

Web-based convention scheduling system

Zambia

Convention scheduling tool originally developed for Arisia. Now used by several other conventions. Zambia tracks sessions (events, panels, and anything that needs to be scheduled), participants, and rooms.

Features

• Track sessions, rooms, and participants
• Comprehensive conflict checking
• Participants log in to enter availability, provide biography, etc.
• Reports for various departments such as technical services and hotel liaison
• Includes interface to KonOpas (https://github.com/eemeli/konopas), a free tool for publishing the schedule to mobile devices

Requirements

• PHP 7.1 or greater (Tested on 7.2 and 7.4)
  • XSLT library
  • Multibyte library
• Apache (Should be able to run on other web servers than can handle PHP and MySQL, but not tested)
• MySQL (Tested on 5.6 & 8.0)
• SMTP connection for use as mail relay (only if you want to send email from Zambia)
  • Note, many hosts limit use of their mail relays in ways not compatible with Zambia

Built In Dependencies

These libraries are included in the repo and should just work if you leave as is

• Client Side
  • Bootstrap 2.3.2 / 4.5.0
  • Choices 9.0.0
  • DataTables 1.10.16
  • JQuery 1.7.2 / 3.5.1
  • JQueryUI 1.8.16
  • Tabulator 4.9.1
  • TinyMCE 5.6.2
• Server Side
  • Swift mailer 5.4.8
  • Guzzle 6.5.3

Integrations

Other software which can work with Zambia

• https://github.com/pselkirk/conguide, a tool for producing a printable pocket program in InDesign from Zambia, including a schedule grid
• KonOpas (https://github.com/eemeli/konopas), a free tool for publishing the schedule to mobile devices

More Information

Check out the wiki

Join the Slack team. Create an issue in this repo if you have no other way to reach me to request an invitation.