Conference Management

This site is built on a combination of Symposion, a conference management system and Wagtail, a content management system. Most structured conference data (e.g. proposals, speaker profiles, schedules) is located in Symposion and be edited through the Django admin (located in the https://mysite/admin/ directory), while most of the general content on the site (e.g. the homepage’s banner image, the text on the Venue page) needs to be managed by Wagtail and its admin (located in the http://mysite/cms/ directory).

Content Management

Page Types

There are three types of Wagtail pages that can be created.

• HomePage - a page containing specialized homepage data and sections. Each site should only have one of these.
• VenuePage - a page containing specialized information relating to the venue and hotel.
• HTMLPage - a generic page containing rich text and/or raw HTML.

Most of the pages you create should be HTMLPages.

Example: Creating a Call For Proposals

Goal

Create a Call for Proposals page

For this example, we want to create a Call for Proposals on our site, at https://mysite/cfp/

Login to the Wagtail admin at https://mysite/cms/. Navigate to the root page - it should be the first page that appears when you click the “Explorer” button in the left sidebar.

Wagtail should show the page as well as all of its child pages. Click “Add a Child Page” and choose a HTMLPage. Edit the page and choose cfp as its slug on the “Promote” tab.

You now have a Call for Proposals page at https://mysite/cfp/.

Main Menu

The main menu is managed from the “Settings” menu of the Wagtail admin. Only top-level menu items need to be added. All pages that need to appear in the menu must have the “Show in menus” settings enabled (found on the “Promote” tab when editing a page).

Reviewing

Teams

The reviewing section’s permission structure relies on Symposion’s “teams” application.

Teams have three different types of membership status:

• “open”: Users can join freely.
• “by application”: Users can apply to join. Team managers receive email notification of applications and can approve applicants.
• “by invitation”: Users must be invited by a team manager in order to be able to join the team.

Each conference site should have a “Reviewers” team with the following permissions for each conference section:

• members need the reviews || Can review … permission.
• managers need the reviews || Can manage … permission.