Subject: Re: Community instance of PentaBarf?

From: "Magnus Hagander" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:36:01 +0200

> WWW Team,
> 
> Pentabarf is the software which we used to schedule and book all three 
> Canada conferences (Anniversary, pgCon1 and 2).  It's the most 
> full-featured conference presentation management package available in OSS.
> 
> I'd like us to have an instance of PB installed on a community server so we 
> can use it for pgDays and the like. Right now Selena is trying to hack up 
> something in Drupal and it'll take a lot of work.  PB is Rails, so it's a 
> bit of a resource hog, but does run on Postgres.  Can we do this?

I have been looking into doing this for the eu group. Previously the conferences have all made a point of doing their own stuff and not within the web community, but if that has changed lll be happy to make it a general community resource.

/Magnus