This is a web application for managing ticket sales, attendee preferences, the CFP, financial applications, and possibly other aspects of organising PyCon UK.

Note: This project uses Python3.6

This is a standard Django project. Dependencies can be installed with pip install -r requirements.txt. A local server can be started with ./manage.py runserver, and tests can be run with ./manage.py test.

To run locally, you will need to create a file called .env. You can copy .env.example to .env, which will be enough to run the tests. To interact with Stripe, you will need some test API keys. Ask @inglesp if you would like to use the test API keys for the PyCon UK account.

You will also need to have a Postgres database called ironcage.

We are aware of a number of other projects for managing conferences. However, they are either too opinionated about how a conference should be organised, in which case they would overly constrain how we run PyCon UK, or else they attempt to be a framework for building conference management systems, in which case we risk spending excessive time understanding and fighting a framework.

The name comes from Weber's Iron Cage of Bureacracy, and I like the sound of a system that "traps individuals in systems based purely on teleological efficiency, rational calculation and control"!