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ConDB Convention DB Software

ConDB is a free open-source convention database system, originally developed for CONduit. It is fairly raw and requires familiarity with Perl, Perl Objects, MySQL, Apache and Unix.

Features:

• Computerized Registration with a SQL Database Back-End
• Central Ledger for Registration, Invoices for grouping multiple registrations.
• Customized badges printed On-The-Fly (requires ghostscript)
• Postal mailing list tracking and management (including CASS certification hooks for mass-mailing)
• Contact Management (Members, Guests, etc), including postal address, phone, email, etc
• Convention Committee job tracking
• Scheduling (Games, currently an alpha feature)
• GPL License (open-source, free to use)

Roadmap:

• Easier pre-registration integration
• Additional Scheduling features

Requirements:

• Unix Operating System (Solaris 8/x86, RedHat Linux and FreeBSD have all beeen used)
• MySQL 3.23+
• Perl 5.6.0+, with DBI and MySQL DBD interfaces
• Apache (mod_perl supported but optional--for performance)
• Ghostscript (for printing badges)
• The Ability to hack perl, unix, mysql, apache...

Status:

Status varies by subsystem:

• Contact Management (members, addresses, phone numbers, registration): STABLE
• Import/Export Mailing information: extras scripts
• Registration Management (Registrations, Invoices, Receipts): STABLE
• Registration Input Queue: In re-Development (eta: May)
• Registration Printing: In re-Development (eta: May)

Documentation

While the software itself is production grade, as with any open-source software, documentation is lacking. There are Installation and Usage notes.

Download

Interested? Download information is availble in the project area at sourceforge.net.