frab - conference management system
frab is a web-based conference planning and management system.
It helps to collect submissions, to manage talks and speakers
and to create a schedule.
Current Status
frab is not under heavy development anymore.
Releases merely mark huge updates and
add a changelog. There are no separate release branches, fixes and development
happen in master. We want the master branch to be usable at all times.
frab has been used to organize FrOSCon since 2011, a
conference with more than 100 talks (and as many speakers) in more
than 5 parallel tracks (plus devrooms) over 2 days.
frab is also used by the Chaos Communication Congress.
The frab wiki hosts a list of conferences using frab.
Feel free to add your conference to the wiki.
Take a look at the screenshots
to get an idea of what frab does. The full
manual can be found in the wiki.
Installing
frab is a pretty standard Ruby on Rails application.
There should be plenty of tutorials online on how to install,
deploy and setup these.
See installation for more frab specific information.
It's possible to run frab via docker, or on a PaaS like heroku or dokku.
Rake Tasks
These are executed from the command line to export conferences and static
schedules, send emails or help with development. The manual has a chapter on
rake tasks for production.
More documentation on available rake tasks can be found in the wiki
or by running rails -D.
Ticket Server
frab supports OTRS, RT and Redmine ticket servers. Instead of sending
event acceptance/rejection mails directly to submitters, frab adds
a ticket to a request tracker.
The ticket server type can be configured for every conference.
Install the iPHoneHandle support if you're using OTRS.
History
frab was originally created for the organization of FrOSCon 2011.
FrOSCon has previously used pentabarf (http://pentabarf.org), and although
frab is a completely new implementation, it borrows heavily from pentabarf.
Both FrOSCon and frab owe a lot to pentabarf. But sadly, pentabarf seems to
be abandoned. And several problems make it hard to maintain. Thus we decided
to create a new system.
Contact
For updates and discussions around frab, please join our mailinglist
frab (at) librelist.com - to subscribe just send a mail to it
License
frab is licensed under an MIT-License. It bundles some
third-party libraries and assets that might be licensed
differently. See LICENSE.