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barcamp_schedule

Barcamp_schedule is a project mainly written in RUBY and JAVASCRIPT, it's free.

Created for BarCamp Philly

This is a scheduling app for managing a one-day barcamp or other sort of user-driven/open convention.

This software is provided under the MIT License. See doc/LICENSE.

Features:

  • Browser and iPhone interface for viewing the schedule.
  • Commenting system for in-presentation discussion or notes.
  • Admin interface for quick entry and adjustment of schedule. Now with drag and drop.
  • Supports multi-day events
  • Some twitter integration available.

TO-DO:

  • Improve security around the admin pages
  • Add an all-comments page
  • migrate the whole thing to jquery
  • Add timeblocks for showing "Planning" and or "Lunch" in the schedule
  • Make the app self-service: logins create and admin new events Add subdomain-fu Add Event model to be loaded based on subdomain. ** Add Event config: icon, url, owner, contact info, color pallet
  • Add an event idea and voting system that can roll idea into the schedule the day of the event

Twitter integration ideas:

  • Add links to display text. Link @user words to twitter.com/user and #tags to search.twitter.com/search?q=tags
  • Add #tag suggestions per presentation, ie. #bcp_40
  • Investigate background tasks to search twitter for #bcp_nn type tags and post them to the presentation comments
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