NASA CoLab Conference Organizing
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NASA CoLab connects NASA’s engineers with the best and brightest of Silicon Valley for collaboration. Chapter Three was selected by open-bidding to create a conference organization site which has functionality to facilitate multiple events, track activity, and assist post-conference groups. Chapter Three used contributed modules to help manage organic groups and schedule management. Our experience with making Drupal scalable ensures that CoLab will keep the momentum going with post-conference working groups well into the future.
Features
- Conference management: An admin interface that makes it easy for NASA to publish and manage separate web-pages for each conference. Conferences can be permission to be open or closed only to certain members.
- Registration system: The registration system supports customized registration forms, allows administrators to add registrants directly, and provides an excel compatible download of all registered participants.
- Member directory: Members can view and search a directory of all conference attendees that displays user pictures, names, titles and a link to their contact form.
- Schedule management system: The scheduling system supports multi-day multi-track conferences and allows users to signal their intent to attend a session directly on the schedule page through an AJAX interface with no page reload required.
- Session system: The session system handles both the rating of proposed sessions, as well as the data capture for sessions that make it onto the official conference schedule. Presenters can upload assets and attendees can collaboratively track links referenced during the session as well as edit a wiki-style notes page for sessions in which they participate.
- Working Groups: After a conference ends, sessions can spawn ongoing working groups for continued discussion and collaboration.