Building the UCCSC Conference Site

Alex Kang and Adam Moore UC Merced (where else?)

What Motivated Us to Move from the Standard UCCSC Conference Site

• Wanted to offer additional features that were available in other packages.

• Did not have a lot of hours to work with• We have Drupal experience

Functional Requirements

• Easily be able to  • Visible session submissions• Voting on sessions• View session schedule online• Register and pay online• Mobile Site• See all attendees• Easy access to information about the conference• BOF Scheduling

Design Requirements

• Slogan: IT on the Horizon• Representative of campus• "Cartoony" without going overboard

Development

• Theme • Mobile site• Payment processor handling

Smooth Implementations

• Using COD prebuilt a lot of items for uso Session schedule handling o User registration

• Creating session schedules was very simple

Thoughts in Hindsight

• Paymentso Unless you have implemented your campus's payment

system in the past prepare well ahead of time.o People signup as proxies for other people and the

directions weren't clear on how they should register those other people.

Implemented Features :)

• Submitting sessions online• Publicly viewing the submitted sessions• Online Registration• Creating a viewable schedule• Building your own schedule

Unimplemented Features :(

• Mobile site• Voting on sessions• Shibboleth• BOF Scheduling

Our Suggestions

• Get payments working early• Implement Shibboleth• Make sure you have adequate resources to dedicate time to

the project

Nothing Wraps Up a Presentation Like a Thank You

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Thank You!

Adam MoorePHP Developeramoore5@ucmerced.edu

Alex KangWeb Designer/Project Managerakang2@ucmerced.edu