Hi,
fudcon.in now has a completely new look and more importantly, is brand new under the hood.
We faced a lot of limitations with the old Drupal 6.x instance that fudcon.in was running on. Specifically, we found it difficult (impossible?) to show the speaker bio in talks or any kind of rich information in various pages. Finding support for Drupal COD 6.x was next to impossible - the only response we got was "I don't think a lot of people use COD 6.x anymore".
So a couple of weeks ago we finally bit the bullet and made the move to Drupal COD 7.x. The move was not easy because the two schemas are not compatible at all. We could manage to migrate 6.x users to 7.x, but we had to enter all of the content by hand once again and then continuously check to make sure that we weren't losing any data.
There are a few breaking changes due to this:
1. Non-accepted talks are no longer published. That is, you can see your submission if you're logged in, but unless the session is accepted, others won't be able to see your abstract.
2. The links for sessions have changed. This is because Drupal COD 7.x introduced the concept of namespaces for conferences, putting all sessions for that conference into a separate namespace. This is great because it is now possible to seamlessly add conferences to the same instance and have them coexist.
Please try this website out and let us know if anything is broken. We will be reaching out to speakers soon to let them know of the new website and making sure that their experience with editing the abstract or uploading slides is seamless.
Siddhesh
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
fudcon.in now has a completely new look and more importantly, is brand new under the hood.
We faced a lot of limitations with the old Drupal 6.x instance that fudcon.in was running on. Specifically, we found it difficult (impossible?) to show the speaker bio in talks or any kind of rich information in various pages. Finding support for Drupal COD 6.x was next to impossible - the only response we got was "I don't think a lot of people use COD 6.x anymore".
So a couple of weeks ago we finally bit the bullet and made the move to Drupal COD 7.x. The move was not easy because the two schemas are not compatible at all. We could manage to migrate 6.x users to 7.x, but we had to enter all of the content by hand once again and then continuously check to make sure that we weren't losing any data.
There are a few breaking changes due to this:
- Non-accepted talks are no longer published. That is, you can see
your submission if you're logged in, but unless the session is accepted, others won't be able to see your abstract.
- The links for sessions have changed. This is because Drupal COD
7.x introduced the concept of namespaces for conferences, putting all sessions for that conference into a separate namespace. This is great because it is now possible to seamlessly add conferences to the same instance and have them coexist.
Please try this website out and let us know if anything is broken.
http://fudcon.in/fudcon-pune-2015/promote-fudcon says "FUDCon Pune 2011" instead of "FUDCon Pune 2015"
We will be reaching out to speakers soon to let them know of the new website and making sure that their experience with editing the abstract or uploading slides is seamless.
Siddhesh
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On 18 May 2015 at 12:38, Aditya Patawari adimania@gmail.com wrote:
http://fudcon.in/fudcon-pune-2015/promote-fudcon says "FUDCon Pune 2011" instead of "FUDCon Pune 2015"
Nice catch - this was broken on the old website too I think. I have fixed it now.
Siddhesh
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