ConCentric Convention Scheduling Software

Leanne Velhurst just finished showing me ConCentric, an online system she created for scheduling events, presenters and locations at the Capricon science fiction convention I am attending right now. It does everything that I want CREM to do.

1. Convention settings page automatically generates your drop-down list of start times, from 3 pieces of data:
• start day/time
• end day/time
• timeslot length
2. Catches conflicts of:
• rooms
• times
• participants
• equipment
3. Auto-generates:
• complete detailed schedule for the program book
• spreadsheet for website/pocket program
• individual schedules for presenters
4. As many user accounts as desired

...and so much more. Does she want to open-source it? YES, she will!

Here's the thing. It's written in PHP under the CodeIgniter web framework. At this point CREM, being so close in desired features, could be considered a re-implementation of ConCentric in Python. In the interim we can get Penguicon up and running on ConCentric, hopefully as soon as possible.