AK Planning
Description
AKPlanning is a tool used for modeling, submitting, scheduling and displaying AKs (German: Arbeitskreise), meaning workshops, talks or similar slot-based events.
It was built for KIF (German: Konferenz der deutschsprachigen Informatikfachschaften), refer to the wiki for more Information.
Structure
This repository contains a Django project called AKPlanning. The functionality is encapsulated into Django apps:
- AKModel: This app contains the general Django models used to represent events, users, rooms, scheduling constraints etc. This app is a basic requirements for the other apps. Data Import/Export also goes here.
- AKDashboard: This app provides a landing page for the project. Per Event it provides links to all relevant functionalities and views.
- AKSubmission: This app provides forms to submit all kinds of AKs, edit or delete them, as well as a list of all submitted AKs for an event.
- AKScheduling: This app allows organizers to schedule AKs, i.e. assigning rooms, slots, etc. It marks conflicts of all modeled constraints and assists in creating a suitable schedule.
- AKPlan: This app displays AKs and where/when they will take place for each event. Views are optimised according to usage/purpose.
Setup instructions
See INSTALL.md for detailed instructions on development and production setups.
To update the setup to the current version on the main branch of the repository use the update script Utils/update.sh or Utils/update.sh --prod in production.
Afterwards, you may check your setup by executing Utils/check.sh or Utils/check.sh --prod in production.
Developer Notes
- to regenerate translations use
python manage.py makemessages -l de_DE --ignore venv - to create a data backup use
python manage.py dumpdata --indent=2 > db.json --traceback - to export all database items belonging to a certain event use
.\Utils\json_export.sh <event_id> <export_prefix> [--prod]. The results will be saved inbackups/<export_prefix>.json