Conference Organizing Distribution slides from DrupalCamp New Hampshire 2013

1. Catch of the Day
Fresh COD

2. Me
Matt Goodwin aka ttamniwdoog
http://drupal.org/user/345239
ttamniwdoog@gmail.com
Twitter: @mattgoodwin

3. More about Me
Attend Manchester DUG
Co-organize Keene DUG
DrupalCamp NH volunteer (website, tshirts,
sponsors, unofficial treasurer)

4. TMI ttamniwdoog
Webmaster Since 1998
Back in 1986, typing in code I read from a
magazine into my C64.
Father of 4, Husband, fisherman and science &
computer nerd

5. How I use COD
Advantage Business Media
Publisher of B2B magazines
Design
Communications
Manufacturing
Science
Conference Division

6. Why Conferences are important?
Human Need for Interaction
We love to learn
Lack of diversity in the office
Conferences are important because they bring
smart, like-minded people together.

7. What is COD?
Why it’s a fish, silly!
COD == Conference Organizing Distribution

8. What is a distribution?
A collection of modules, theme & configuration
that can be downloaded similar to a module.
Many distributions available:
OpenPublic https://drupal.org/project/openpublic
OpenPublish http://drupal.org/project/openpublish
Drupal Commons https://drupal.org/project/commons
Commerce Kickstart https://drupal.
org/project/commerce_kickstart

9. Who is COD right for?
Curious Drupallers
Entrepreneurs
Conference Developers
Publishers

10. How do I start using it?
Like many things in the Drupal world, there are
many ways to do things: https://drupal.
org/documentation/build/cod/download
Download it https://drupal.org/project/cod
Read the directions http://drupal.
org/documentation/build/cod
Watch some tutorials

11. What to expect from COD?
COD is an event management system
In essence, a conference is an event.
But so is a BarCamp or a Webinar.
COD can host multiple events for you, not just
your annual event.

12. What are some of its features?
Attendee Registration
Custom fields for attendees
Webforms

13. Yet even more features...
Views
Commerce
Reporting
Event Registration as a product
Sponsorships as a product

14. More on Sponsors
Sponsors
Sponsorship level is a taxonomy term
Sponsorship Products
Sponsorship Management
Can upload their logo & manage their content

15. and yet more features...
Speakers / User Submitted session proposals
Rooms
Time Slots

16. But wait there’s more...on sessions
Sessions
Session content type can have videos or even link to slides
Session Evaluations/Voting
Session Statuses (Accepted, Declined)

17. Bonus Features
Automated Agenda
(Thank You Views)

18. How can there still be more features
Personalized Schedule for Registrants
Registered Users could flag the sessions they
are interested in to help determine room size

19. Finally the last feature
Printing badges https://drupal.org/node/1199914

20. Fierce Competition
COD competitors
http://usecod.com/cod-comparison

21. This is an awesome tool. How can I
help make it better?
Get Involved http://usecod.com/get-involved
Answer Questions in IRC
Join and Participate in COD Group
Submit & Fix Bugs in the issue queue
Review & Update documentation

22. What’s the catch?
COD is currently at Alpha2
I find that documentation is a bit scattered and
many times outdated
Need to get up to speed quick on modules
contained in order to use the distro like
Views, Rules, Webform, Organic Groups,
Commerce

23. I’m stuck...Now what?
IRC #drupal-cod on Freenode
Twitter @UseCOD
Issue Queue https://drupal.
org/project/issues/cod_support
g.d.o page https://groups.drupal.org/conferenceorganizing-distribution