Congress Assistant

This is a PHP Web-Application based on the CodeIgniter framework, initially created for the ESEB 2011 Congress in Tübingen.

Its purposes are:

• Synchronizing the time slots for talks in multiple lecture halls, by displaying a countdown during talks and a timeline of upcoming events and customizable slides for announcements between them. This is implemented via a backbone.js based frontend (Time synchronization is done by continuously fetching a master time from the the server).
• Serving webpages to assist in organizing activities (In Tübingen: Meet a Silverback, Poster Invitations, ...)
• Sending personalized emails to different groups of attendants

Basic Installation Instructions

• Follow the install instructions for CodeIgniter
• Init database using install/init_database.sql (Adjust table prefix if neccessary)
• Fill tables in database (For many tables there is no editing frontend available yet)
• Adjust application to your needs (Edit views, styles, scripts, etc. or add new functionality)

Usage

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Sending emails should be done via a cron task executing 'php $WEB_HOME/index.php cron sendmail'

Events at which this software has been used

• ESEB 2011 Congress in Tübingen
• ESEB 2013 Congress in Lisbon