Wanted: application for doing convention programmes

[keristor]

I'm wondering if there already is such a thing. The thing I have in mind would be a sort of graphics/GUI application. It would allow the number of days (and streams/rooms) and the time constraints to be specified as a table grid (scrollable both ways; the time (vertical) should be able to support divisions at least down to 5 minute granularity to

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[phillip2637]

I would start by looking at the class of software used for booking meeting rooms to see if any of it had enough of your desired features to be useful. It's the closest common analogy that springs to mind.

[phillip2637]

On the other hand, going to sourceforge.net and searching for 'convention scheduling' has interesting results.

[keristor]

Indeed, it found one for programming a conventional VCR *g*.

Arisia's Zambia sounds good (the others seem to have no submitted files) but is probably overkill for a 120 person filkcon *g*. I'll try getting that.

[keristor]

Ah, it looks as though it has no public entries. I've submitted a request to join, hopefully that will show something.

I rather like the idea of drag and drop, though...

[sugoll]

I've just approved the request. ProgDB might do for you, or it might not. The important things are that it's only web-based (you can't work locally), and it's not open-source (because the insides are too horrible to reveal). There many other reasons why it might (or might not) work for you, but given what you've written above, I'd guess that those would be the most important.

It runs on gaspodex's server, where the Illustrious database sat, where Olympus's is sitting waiting to be populated, and where there's a sandpit containing the data from (I think) Redemption '09. If you're still interested, I can give you access to the latter, and you can have a poke around.

[keristor]

Thanks. If you have a sandbox you don't mind me playing with that would be great. I'm not too bothered about where it resides (or really with whether it's open source, I'm a pragmatist not a purist and use a fair bit of shareware and similar), I'm more bothered about common standards (and like it or not things like Excel are a de facto standard these days, there are even Perl modules to read and write it).

Email is my LJ username at gmail dot com if you want to take it private.

Thanks.