{"id":142,"date":"2007-05-02T00:08:34","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T04:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2007-05-02T00:08:34","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T04:08:34","slug":"conference-listing-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/05\/02\/conference-listing-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference Listing Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I did with INFORMS Online was put in a <a href=\"http:\/\/meetings.informs.org\">system for conference listings<\/a>.\u00a0 The system began with some commercial software but I ended up modifying it so much that it is almost unrecognizable.\u00a0 The system has been very successful (a few hundred OR\/MS conferences get added every year, and the upkeep is relatively low).\u00a0 But the system is buggy (people &#8220;losing&#8221; their conferences is the most common problem) and I cannot keep reminding myself on how it works in order to debug it.\u00a0 Further, there are some things we would like (RSS feeds and ical compatibility) that this cannot do.<\/p>\n<p>So I would like a new system.\u00a0 There is an <a href=\"http:\/\/wpcal.firetree.net\/\">add on for word-press blogs<\/a> (like this one) that allows event entry, but it is pretty darn clunky.\u00a0 I am now experimenting with it on this page (see the right hand column), but I am not crazy about it.\u00a0 Has anyone seen systems like the one at INFORMS that they like and (even better) have experience with?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I did with INFORMS Online was put in a system for conference listings.\u00a0 The system began with some commercial software but I ended up modifying it so much that it is almost unrecognizable.\u00a0 The system has been very successful (a few hundred OR\/MS conferences get added every year, and the upkeep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/05\/02\/conference-listing-software\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Conference Listing Software&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}