Conference Organizing Install Profile

This distribution makes it easy to organize conferences through a website. It enables the following features:

• Conference management: Publishes pages for conferences that includes descriptive and logistical information (location / directions). Admin interfaces make it easy to create and manage conferences. Allows administrators to create multiple conferences per site.
• Registration: The registration process makes it easy for users with or without accounts to register for your conference. Custom registration forms can be created (supported by webform module) and registration data can be displayed in a table or downloaded as a csv file. Administers can also register attendees by hand.
• Scheduling: Supports multi day and multi track conference scheduling. Daily schedules are laid out on an easy to browse daily schedule that displays sessions in rows for each track track and height and position according to their time. On the schedule page users can check off which sessions they will be attending and their personalized schedule will then appear on their profile for others to see.
• Session proposals: Enables organizers to allow users to propose conference sessions. Proposed sessions can be voted on by users and the top rated sessions can then be scheduled into the conference..
• Session collaboration: Session presenters can upload files and assets and attendees can collaboratively keep track of links referenced during the session and edit notes displayed on the session page.
• Discussions: Allows users to start discussion threads for a conference. Discussions can be emailed out to all attendees (og module) and can be related to conference Sessions.
• Member directory: Attendees can view, sort, and search a directory of all conference attendees that shows user pictures, names, titles and a link to their contact form.
• Email: Conference administrators can bulk email all conference attendees (supported by og module).