WIAS Conference Toolkit

This is an uncomplete preliminary version. We are just about to include all facilities.

Overview

This toolkit helps to coordinate a conference and to produce printed conference materials.

Facilities

The facilities provided in this toolkit include the following:

• Produce a conference book (verbose variant in DIN A4 with abstracts, or short DIN A5 version)
• Create a web app to display the conference program on smartphones
• Write personalized emails by use of mailing scripts in the directory "mail"
• Produce name badges, letters of participation and conference dinner tickets.

With the current version, you can already clean Converia data, and build the data base

General work flow

1. From your submission and registration system, export the data into an xml data base, such that it fits into the scheme defined in xml/wias-conference-toolkit.xml
2. You can now use all other facilities.

Work flow with Converia

1. Clean your Converia data set. You can use converia-input/check_duplicates.py to find (more) possible duplicate accounts. Duplicate talks can be detected with the help of converia-input/talk_duplicates.py
2. If available, include information on the registration/payment status, and more into the according files. See input files in converia-input/README.md
3. Build the data base with the help of converia-input/build_xml_db.py (use

   make xml/db.xml

   )
4. You can now use all other facilities.