Many events at a conference may be composed of several sub-events. Examples of these larger events are workshops, affinity workshops, sponsor expo events, demonstrations, tutorials and any other event where a focused group of organizers lay out a sub-schedule for a single event within the larger conference. Workshops are the best example of this where a several hour workshop may include invited speaker talks, a panel discussion, a poster session or two as well as several breaks. The workshop may have several organizers which create the overall event.
The conference website supports organizers of these events, selected by the various conference chairs, in creating a sub-schedule and defining other aspects of these workshop like events.
In the rest of this document we will call any event which has sub-events and an organizer or small group of organizers a workshop. As mentioned in the preceding section these can be any number of event kinds which the overall conference planners have identified.
In other words workshop organizer also means organizers for affinity workshop, tutorial, demonstration, expo session, etc.
In August 2023 a new implementation was introduced for workshop organizers called the Organizer Admin pages. These are based on Django's Admin pages but specifically taylored for workshop organizers. There are many resources on the internet about Django and it's admin pages however most of these combine implementing the admin pages alongside using those same pages (e.g. Mozilla's Django Tutorial).
This older support for editing a schedule and other details of a workshop is called the Legacy Schedule Editor. This support is still available. Note that the Schedule Editor and Organizer Admin pages both update the same underlying database so you can choose to edit things using either interface. Features not available in the Legacy Schedule Editor include setting a workshop organizer as a streaming engineer and marking the Zoom link for a workshop as visible to all attendees.
The organizer start page has links for both implementations above of managing workshops. This page is the default page linked to from the conference's home page. There is an option on this page to skip it and go directly to the Organizer Admin pages from the link on the conference home page. You will always need to use this page to select the Legacy Schedule Editor.
This page has the following selections:
| Selection or Action | Description |
|---|---|
| Do not show this page again | Selecting this checkbox changes the behavior of the link on the home page such that it skips the Organizer Start Page and goes directly to the Organizer Admin pages. |
| Select Workshop | A drop down list of your workshops or '--------' to indicate no workshop. |
| Save and Go To Organizer Admin | Save the selected options and goes to the Organizer Admin page |
| Save and Go To Comp Tickets | Save the selected options and go the the Complimentary Tickets assignment page (Only the primary contact can assign complimentary tickets.) |
| Save and Go To Schedule Editor | Save the selected options and go to the Legacy Schedule Editor event editing page |
| Save and Go To Workshop Details | Save the selected options and go to the Legacy Schedule Editor workshop details editing page |
If you are a workshop organizer you can reach this page at
See Organizer Admin.
See Schedule Editor