Whiteboard Ideas

Put your whiteboard ideas here

We'll prioritize them or flesh them out more

{deployment} It would be most simple to have a single binary deployment for both the static and dynamic bits of congo (admin + conference website) That may not be ideal for other reasons, but a single app that serves the admin, cfp, conference website, etc, would be easiest to deploy.

• As much as I dislike Javascript, it makes sense for the main congo app to be 100% REST and have consumers that publish/edit that data. The admin site can be a consumer/producer. Individual conference sites can be consumers.

• Generators are the future. We should make a conference site generator that produces an unstyled front-end app that consumes the congo API for a specific conference-id/key

Feature Ideas

GopherCon

• DP - Schedule editor and API

  • Calendaring and scheduling can be hard. There are various efforts that have built companies around this (Sched, Time.ly)
  • Would respect sessions, tracks
  • A schedule API could a) ease building of display, b) support embeddable widgets on other sites for cross-promotion

• DP - Organizer Financial Dashboard

  • Tickets sold/available
  • Revenue expected/actual
  • Expense planning and receipt management (plenty of mobile scenarios to consider)

• DP - Document management

  • Probably a simple wrapper around Dropbox, Google Drive, etc...simplify logging in and finding documents
  • Contracts, insurance policies, press release, etc.

• SB - video conference integration

  • it would be great to integrate (with multiple backends?) with a video conference solution so a congo conference can also be attended remotely.

Back-End Concerns

• DP - Ticketing Provider interface for swappable ticketing systems
  • The real decision here is whether to defer this abstraction until a later time and just implement for Tito for