Convention scheduling tool originally developed for Arisia. Currently being generalized to handle other conferences/conventions. Zambia tracks sessions (events, panels, and anything that needs to be scheduled), participants, and rooms.
- Track sessions, rooms, and participants
- Comprehensive conflict checking
- Participants log in to enter availability, provide biography, etc.
- Reports for various departments such as technical services and hotel liaison
- Includes interface to KonOpas (https://github.com/eemeli/konopas), a free tool for publishing the schedule to mobile devices
- PHP 7.X (Tested on 7.0 & 7.2) (Should be able to run on PHP 5.6 if tweaked to use older version of Swift)
- XSLT library
- Multibyte library
- Apache (Should be able to run on other web servers than can handle PHP and MySQL, but not tested)
- MySQL
- SMTP connection for use as mail relay (only if you want to send email from Zambia)
- Note, many hosts limit use of their mail relays in ways not compatible with Zambia
- Swift mailer (Tested on v 6.1.3)
Other software which can work with Zambia
- https://github.com/pselkirk/conguide, a tool for producing a printable pocket program in InDesign from Zambia, including a schedule grid
- KonOpas (https://github.com/eemeli/konopas), a free tool for publishing the schedule to mobile devices
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