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Frab – free and open conference management system

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Re: Frab – free and open conference management system

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Post by ahazred8ta »

donw wrote: post #20
vharuck wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "first name, last name" fields are worse, IMO. - It doesn't apply for many cultures. - The only justification to collect them separately is to link with third-party data. - They should stop playing around and just ask me what they want to know, "How would you like to be addressed?"

> It doesn't apply for many cultures. I'm struggling to come up with a list of those. Middle names are definitely not universal, sure, but I can't seem to find a list of cultures that can't map down to "first name, last name". Iceland, Indonesia, Turkey, Ethiopia, everything I've come across seems to have adopted some superset of "first name, last name" in the last hundred years. > The only justification to collect t…

"The full name of singer Shakira is Shakira Isabel MEBARAK Ripoll. She is the daughter of William Mebarak Chadid and Nidia del Carmen Ripoll Torrado.

The full name of actress Penélope Cruz is Penélope CRUZ Sánchez. She is the daughter of Eduardo Cruz and Encarnación Sánchez."

In spanish, the family name is next-to-last. Shakira would be in the phone book under "M", not "R".

Re: Frab – free and open conference management system

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Post by rebuilder »

blahblahthrow wrote: post #17
nisuni wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some conferences are in locations with restricted accommodation facilities, and if you don’t specify a roommate, you are paired with someone of your gender. So that’s why the gender might be needed. As far as the preferred pronouns are concerned, I see them as something with heavy political connotations. No one who is not hard left believes in the necessity of the xir pronoun, and of course there are trans people als…

Automatically pairing people by gender is pretty weird IMO. As a trans woman I have to find my own roommate or find an organizer to intervene and explain my life story to them.

I can see how that would be frustrating. What would be an alternative?

Re: Frab – free and open conference management system

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Post by lazyasciiart »

donw wrote: post #20
vharuck wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "first name, last name" fields are worse, IMO. - It doesn't apply for many cultures. - The only justification to collect them separately is to link with third-party data. - They should stop playing around and just ask me what they want to know, "How would you like to be addressed?"

> It doesn't apply for many cultures. I'm struggling to come up with a list of those. Middle names are definitely not universal, sure, but I can't seem to find a list of cultures that can't map down to "first name, last name". Iceland, Indonesia, Turkey, Ethiopia, everything I've come across seems to have adopted some superset of "first name, last name" in the last hundred years. > The only justification to collect t…

Indonesia definitely has people with no last name. Former presidents Suharto and Sukarno are pretty well known examples!

Re: Frab – free and open conference management system

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Post by weinzierl »

sdan wrote: post #21

Not sure if it's just me: Anytime you show a product at least include some screenshots of how it looks like somewhere. In my brief search, I couldn't find anything.

I agree about the screenshots and a demo in addition is even better. Or even better yet: real world use cases. To see frab live and in action google for "ccc fahrplan" For example, last year's congress "fahrplan" is:

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/timeli...

"fahrplan" is running frab since 2013.

Re: Frab – free and open conference management system

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Post by markvdb »

agumonkey wrote: post #16

doo people have open source recording gig ? to ensure nice sound and synced slides ?

Have a look at what we use at https://fosdem.org [0][1]. In terms of software, a crucial component is voctomix [2], using it as a headless video mixer. Another invaluable component is nginx-rtmp [3] for streaming.

We made a heavy push to get all of this packaged in Debian. It's a surprisingly powerful combination.

[0] https://github.com/FOSDEM/infrastructure/tree/master/ansible... [1] https://github.com/FOSDEM/video/blob/master/instructions/FOS... [2] https://github.com/voc/voctomix [3] https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module/

Re: Frab – free and open conference management system

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Post by davidroetzel »

It is so nice to see this on here. I started frab way back for FrOSCon, a german free and open source software conference (which you should totally attend if you can make it!).

I stopped contributing when I stopped organizing FrOSCon, but thankfully Mario, the current maintainer, has picked it up and he does a tremendous job ever since. Also a big thank you to all contributors.

Re: Frab – free and open conference management system

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Post by Quanttek »

jph wrote: post #2

Thank you for writing and sharing - I especially like the feature for a call for papers. I'm adding Frab to a list of Meetup alternatives and related meeting software: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/social_network_plan/b...

Pretalx was also mentioned in the comments

Re: Frab – free and open conference management system

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Post by nisuni »

blahblahthrow wrote: post #17
nisuni wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some conferences are in locations with restricted accommodation facilities, and if you don’t specify a roommate, you are paired with someone of your gender. So that’s why the gender might be needed. As far as the preferred pronouns are concerned, I see them as something with heavy political connotations. No one who is not hard left believes in the necessity of the xir pronoun, and of course there are trans people als…

Automatically pairing people by gender is pretty weird IMO. As a trans woman I have to find my own roommate or find an organizer to intervene and explain my life story to them.

The choice works for 99% of people, and it’s always very clearly stated. If you have any problem with the default choice, I am sure the organizers will do their best to accommodate your request.

The same holds for special dietary requests, special assistance, people arriving late or leaving earlier, people traveling with partners, with children, etc...

I don’t want to be rude, but please just realize that usually the defaults try to accommodate as many persons as possible, and then there’s always the possibility to ask.

Do you have any better solution? I would be interesting in hearing what you think!

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