Pentabarf is a conference planning software written in Ruby ( using the Rails framework) and PL/pgSQL.

This project supports you in the submission collection, content planning, schedule creation, feedback collection and has various exports to put these data to use in other systems.


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Requirements:

· Ruby
· Rails
· XMPP4R - XMPP/Jabber Library for Ruby
· ImageMagick
· RMagick
· iconv ruby bindings
· PostgreSQL
· libpq - C-API to PostgreSQL including header files (to compile the PostgreSQL ruby bindings)
· Ruby header files (to compile the ruby postgres bindings)
· ruby-postgres 0.7.1.2006.04.06 (available as gem)

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Pentabarf has been modified to work with recent Rails versions and now requires Rails 2.3.5. Exceptions can now be received via email in addition to receiving them by jabber. See rails/config/mail.yml.template for an example how to set this up. Two new conflicts have been added for events without breaks inbetween. Submitters can now download the public files of their own events. Compatibility with IE8 has been improved.

· A lot of bugs have been fixed too: Event attachments are now properly handled in the html schedule export, copying events has been fixed, update_data has been adjusted to work with PostgreSQL 8.4, trying to add an event to person or a person to an event without actually selecting an event/person no longer produces an errror, the CSV controller has been modified to work with conference permissions, the HTML export now properly shows the public email address instead of the contact email address when using releases.