Roboconf: Django on Conference Holding

2014/05/18 Talk @ PyCON APAC 2014, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

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1. Roboconf
   Django on Conference Holding
   RSChiang @ PyCON APAC 2014
   

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2. RSChiang
   ๏Freshman at NTU College of Law
   ๏SITCON ’13, ’14 Lead Administrator
   ๏Open source developer & advocate
   ๏You can reach me at poren.tw
   *except legal inquiries
   

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3. Outline
   ๏ The origins of Roboconf
   ๏ How does it work
   ๏ Workarounds & Challenges
   ๏ Future aspects
   

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4. What’s Roboconf?
   

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5. Students’ Information Technology Conference
   

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6. Diverse Staff
   = Difficult to Track
   *As an admin
   

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7. Mailing flood
   15 mails, 1.57 issues avg. each day
   

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8. ACL Hell
   200+ folders to lock & archive
   

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9. Jun 11, 2013
   soon after 1st year’s SITCON
   

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11. Roboconf
    a.k.a. ⥏⡨ॲ
    

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12. SITCON
    SITCON Internal Tracking & Conf. Op. Net.
    

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13. …each staff would be found with their work done too. (evil smirk)
    “Each reddish finds its own pit.”
    ƪʫϪ⢗➰ʫϪࢻơƫ
    

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14. Features
    ๏ Issue tracking (with serious notification)
    ๏ Personnel administration
    ๏ Centralized document control
    ๏ Collaborative agenda
    

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15. Architecture
    “Core” templates, settings, shared code
    Notification 

    queue
    Phased ACL
    Revision-based
    document model
    HTML frontend
    Ajax API
    

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16. Phased ACL
    Effective 

    Previlege
    “Deny” declaration 

    restricts permission gain
    “Allow” declaration 

    assigns permission
    Permission won’t be assigned 

    unless explicitly granted
    

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17. Document model
    File
    Revision
    Text blob
    Tracks file system attributes
    (name, stars, permissions…)
    Records commit data & locality
    (enables remote linking)
    Typed content storage

    (not necessary in DB)
    

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18. Notifications
    

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19. — Administrators with joy
    “Staff never ignore mails again.
    ‘cause they just can’t get rid of it.”
    

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20. Results &
    Applications
    

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21. Issue tracker
    

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22. Document control
    

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23. Staff information
    

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24. me.SITCON
    Side project of
    Creative & Web Team
    (Angular.js x Django)
    

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25. Challenges
    ๏ Narrow gap between development & production
    • Admin team is constantly on-call to fix bugs
    • Daily new features with 726 commits over 10 months
    ๏ Diverse languages choices in staff members
    • Need to work with Angular.js etc. -> Set forth API
    

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26. Future aspects
    ๏ Theming & template generalization
    ๏ Fluid, ajax-based rewritten frontend
    ๏ Clear & easy installation instructions
    ๏ Integrated client push notification app
    

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27. Repository
    github.com/sitcon-tw/staff.sitcon.org
    

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28. Repository
    github.com/sitcon-tw/staff.sitcon.org
    We’ll rename it soon 

    after generalization!
    

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29. Thanks!
    RSChiang @ PyCON APAC 2014
    

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