Scalereg is the registration system used by SCALE, the Southern California Linux Expo. This registration software helped us run a smooth show for over 1000 attendees during SCALE 6X and SCALE 7X. We are releasing this code so other Open Source conferences can benefit from it as well.
The SCALE Registration System (scalereg) is written in Python and uses the Django framework.
You can find more about the projects mentioned above at their respective websites: Scalereg - https://github.com/socallinuxexpo/scalereg SCALE - https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/ Django - https://www.djangoproject.com/
To run Scalereg, you need the following:
[1] Most testing has been with Python 2.5. Please report incompatibilities with python 2.3 or 2.4.
After extracting the Scalereg tarball, from the top-level directory of the Scalereg source (which contains this file), go to the scalereg/ directory that contains settings.py.
Now edit settings.py and make sure all the settings look correct. By default, we use a SQLite database since it requires minimal setup. Please generate a unique SECRET_KEY in settings.py; any valid python string works. Also change the path in TEMPLATE_DIRS with the full path to scalereg/scale_templates. With the application configured, run the following command to initial the database:
./manage.py syncdb
To load some sample data:
./manage.py loaddata fixtures/sample_data.xml
And to start the webserver:
./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8080
Assuming all went smoothly, go to http://hostname:8080/admin to configure the registration site, and http://hostname:8080/reg6 to try out the registration software.
If you want to integrate Scalereg with your web server software or your database software, please see the Django website for more info on "Deploying Django".