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Me

Matt Goodwin aka ttamniwdoog

http://drupal.org/user/345239

ttamniwdoog@gmail.com

Twitter: @mattgoodwin

More about Me

Attend Manchester DUG

Co-organize Keene DUG

DrupalCamp NH volunteer (website, tshirts, sponsors, unofficial treasurer)

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

How I use COD

Advantage Business Media

Publisher of B2B magazinesDesignCommunicationsManufacturing ScienceConference Division

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.

What is COD?

Why it’s a fish, silly!

COD == Conference Organizing Distribution

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

Who is COD right for?

Curious Drupallers

Entrepreneurs

Conference Developers

Publishers

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

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.

What are some of its features?

Attendee RegistrationCustom fields for attendees

Webforms

Yet even more features...

Views

Commerce ReportingEvent Registration as a productSponsorships as a product

More on Sponsors

SponsorsSponsorship level is a taxonomy termSponsorship ProductsSponsorship Management Can upload their logo & manage their content

and yet more features...

Speakers / User Submitted session proposals

Rooms

Time Slots

But wait there’s more...on sessions

SessionsSession content type can have videos or even link to slidesSession Evaluations/VotingSession Statuses (Accepted, Declined)

Bonus Features

Automated Agenda(Thank You Views)

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

Finally the last feature

Printing badges https://drupal.org/node/1199914

Fierce Competition

COD competitorshttp://usecod.com/cod-comparison

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

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

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/conference-organizing-distribution