[fedora-india] The new fudcon.in!

[Aditya Patawari]

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar
<siddhesh.poyarekar at 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:
>
> 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.
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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