Moving toward a conferences toolkit (ACT)
Fri, 06-Oct-2006 by
Jim Brandt
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Long-time readers might remember my <a href="http://news.perl-foundation.org/2006/03/i_need_a_perlbased_conference_1.html">plea</a> for a conference module to allow YAPC organizers to organize rather than hack the website. Well, I'm very pleased to announce that I was able to get in touch with the YAPC Europe folks and the <a href="http://act.mongueurs.net/">ACT</a> folks and they have agreed to work on making ACT the default YAPC web site framework.
One of the main issues with ACT was that it hadn't been released. I believe the main reason was that Eric Cholet and Philippe Bruhat didn't want a bunch of servers popping up running ACT when they were willing to host. Also, we get some advantages by hosting it on one server like a history of YAPC, shared accounts for login, etc.
These all seem like good reasons to keep a central host. But I also thought it would be nice if others could use ACT and perhaps see the source and hack it a bit. So we'll do both. The ACT developers are going to work on preparing a version of the system that can be released, and we will work on hosting YAPC::NA and possibly YAPC::EU on their server (really this is their work too).
We still have some details to work out, like interfacing with the TPF payment server, but there is a plan for that too. As of right now, my hope is that YAPC::NA next year will have it's web component hosted by the ACT folks.
If you are interested in helping out, there are links to various mailing lists on the <a href="http://act.mongueurs.net/">ACT home page</a>.
I should also note that I did receive some interest from others regarding my earlier post. Specifically, Gabor Szabo offered to adapt his <a href="http://yapcom.pti.co.il/">YAPCOM</a> system. Although we've decided to go with ACT, I wanted to thank Gabor for offering to help.
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By the way, I prefer to write it "Act", rather than "ACT". It's less an acronym than an injuction: "Act!" (and organize your conference). :-)
