Topic on User talk:Chughakshay16/ConventionExtension

There are many things related to the conference, which sometimes are done by different tools:

1. Attendee registration (payments, pre-paid attendees, scholarships)
2. Handling of accommodation issues (price, rooms, who shares with whom, multiple accommodation sites)
3. Program - submissions, review etc. This is can be handled by software like EasyChair or Pentabarf. The output should be ready to use program (but then you need rooms, timeslot management, etc.)
4. Wikimania has also scholarships - there is an application form and review process by the committee

I have looked into the issues that you pointed out :-
Here are some of the things that that might help me solve some of the above issues
1. database changes for features such as scholarships(and a special page for a scholarship applicant)
2. submission form for the speakers .
I still havent quite got hold of the idea of how to handle accommodation issues. And as I already pointed out earlier , paypal generates a 'Buy Now' button for you so that can be easily integrated into our extension code.(but admin needs to have an account with paypal)
Please correct me if I am still missing something.

1. Current code used in 2012 for scholarships: https://github.com/saper/Scholarships
2. Sumissions could be added to a wiki using this page, which used this submission template. You can have a look at all submissions here: wm2012:Category:Wikimania_submissions.

I don't see how are you going to approach this so it's hard to tell what is still missing.

Hope this helps.

For Fedora events, we use a Trac instance to handle scholarship/funding requests (each request becomes a ticket, and the admins can accept/deny it and track its progress from "reviewed" to "approved" and "paid" or "reimbursed"). It works really well, and it might be an option to try and find a way to integrate Trac (or some other ticket tracker) with Mediawiki for events (this probably means finding an existing plugin, and tweaking it for events-specific cases), rather than trying to reimplement all the functionality in the wiki code itself.

https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ is the Trac we use.

This post was posted by Mchua~mediawikiwiki, but signed as Mchua.