"eventum project" - a drupal platform for managing events and conferences

“EVENTUM PROJECT”: A DRUPAL PLATFORM FORMANAGING EVENTS AND CONFERENCES

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AGENDA• overview • the story • the scouting • the disappointment • the opportunity • the idea • how “eventum” is build? • keypoints • the debut • next steps • a little “Eventum” tour • question & answers

DANIELE PIAGGESITechnical Director @bmeme

daniele.piaggesi@bmeme.com @g0blin79

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SOFTWARE INTEGRATION UX & UI DESIGN

FRONTEND !

CONSULTING !

DRUPAL SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES

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THE STORYOnce upon a time

in a galaxy far far away

a phone rang

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THE STORYCustomer REQUESTS

A SIMPLE 2/3 pages website……to promote an event…

…users have to buy tickets online…

…and some other services.

AH! ALMOST FORGOT…

…aheam…

book hotels online??

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THE STORY

Customer REQUIREMENTS

Event Subscription (Registration?)

eCommerce

More than a product

Booking Online

Stock Management

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THE STORY

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THE SCOUTING

Conference Organizing Distribution • Event signup • Session proposal/voting/judging • Session selection/scheduling • Sponsor Management • Attendee Management • Ticket sale

drupal.org/project/cod

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THE SCOUTING

Drupal Rooms • Rooms Management • Availability Management • Integration with Commerce (drupal.org/project/commerce) • Booking online • Manage Discount and services

drupal.org/project/rooms

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THE SCOUTING

Eventbrite • Does it need presentations???

eventbrite.comdrupal.org/project/eventbrite_api

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THE DISAPPOINTMENT

• “Cod” is too much “IT-event oriented”. • “Rooms” manages only a booking “structure” at

once and it works on too much things. • “Eventbrite” integration is based on (very, very,

very, very…help me to say: very) bad library.

…MMMMMHHHH…

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THE OPPORTUNITY

• Basing on this REAL requirements… • …build a Drupal application… • …or something like that… • …with a base of features ready… • …highly customisable… • …reusable and resalable.

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EVENTUM PROJECT

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THE IDEA

• Drupal Installation Profile • With needed contrib modules inside • Drupal Commerce integration • Custom Hotel booking system with stock

management • Some nice features like:

• Session scheduling/selection • Speaker management • Registration during subscription • Sale of tickets for sessions / days / event • “Other product” management

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FEW KEYWORDS ABOUT DRUPAL COMMERCE

Product Variations: are the descriptors you can use to define kinds of products. For example, you could describe size, fabric or color of a pair of shoes.

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FEW KEYWORDS ABOUT DRUPAL COMMERCE

Line Item: the way in which customers can define something about the product.

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FEW KEYWORDS ABOUT DRUPAL COMMERCE

Payment gateways: a pluggable system that allows you to interface with a payment provider to handle the secure payment transactions for whatever you are selling.

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HOW “EVENTUM” IS BUILT?

Some simple node entities: • Place: conference rooms or halls. • Session: what, who, where, when • Sponsor: obviously

Three products displayed node entities: • Event Program: referenced to “Session” and “Program”

product variation type • Accomodation: referenced to “Room” product variation type • Service: referenced to “Service” product variation type

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HOW “EVENTUM” IS BUILT?

Simple custom Booking SystemThe system can suggest to the user the best/available accommodation and room basing on:

• The day/s of the event (then they are fixed…) • The levels of the accommodation (es: three, four, n stars) • The number of beds needed.

!And manage the quantity of each room of each accommodation.

- What else? -

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KEYPOINTS

• The organizer does not sell the ticket…he sells SOMETHING that CAN BE also the ticket (a single session, a single day of the event, different days at different prices and so on…

• During the subscription, the attendee will be registered as Drupal user.

• During or after the subscription at the website, the attendee can book a room in an hotel or buy other services.

• The rooms not more available, will not be proposed to the attendee

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LOOK BACK TO THE REQUIREMENTS

Event Subscription (Registration?)eCommerce

More than a product

Booking Online

Stock Management

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

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MANY THINGS HAVE CHANGED SINCE THEN ...

• “Eventum” now is a Drupal module with a set of predefined dependencies.

• It is really reusable and “pluggable” in any Drupal instance also pre-existent.

• With Nouvelle S.r.l. we defined pricing policies. • We are thinking about a distribution that could be

available in SaaS.

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MEANWHILE IN GOTHAM CITY

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EVENTBRITE CONNECTORgithub.com/bmeme/eventbrite_connector

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COMMERCE MONETAWEBdrupal.org/sandbox/bmeme/2227843

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TAKE A LOOK

#DrupalDaysITAGENDA

• Overview • First: the story… • …then a little bit of scouting… • …mmmm…I have to do it by myself

DANIELE PIAGGESITechnical Director @bmeme

daniele.piaggesi@bmeme.com @g0blin79 !bmeme.com @bonsaimeme #bmemebuilds

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