Conferences

A conference is a collection of meetings arranged in a program, with a number of people invited as speakers, and other information fields typical of large congresses or social events (registration, list of organizations that support or sponsor the event, etc.). A conference can be a relevant event for an organization and its members, or take place as part of a participatory process or follow a consultation.

Examples:

A general assembly for an organization
The annual meeting of a cooperative

As a real world example you can see the anual Metadecidim conferences:

Decidim Fest 2020

Create a new conference

For adding a new conference, you need to:

Sign in as admin
Go to admin panel
In the main sidebar, click in the button "Conferences"
Click in the button "Create a new conference"
Configure the conference by filling the form

Create a new conference form

Table 1. Create a new conference
Field	Type	Description
Title	Required	What is the title of this conference. For instance "Decidim Fest 2021"
Slogan	Required	A subtitle for this conference. For instance, "Democracy, Technology and Global Justice"
URL slug	Required	URL slugs are used to generate the URLs that point to this conference. Only accepts letters, numbers, and dashes, and must start with a letter. Example: if your domain is 'example.org' and your slug 'DecidimFest21' then your URL will be https://example.org/conferences/DecidimFest21
Hashtag	Optional	Hashtag for Twitter
Highlighted	Optional	Should this conference be more prominent than others? For instance, is this an ongoing or a conference that has happened years ago?
Short description	Required	A short explanation of what’s your conference about.
Description	Required	A long explanation of what’s your conference about.
Objectives	Optional	What are the objectives or goals for this conference?
Location	Optional	Where will this conference take place?
Home image	Optional	Preferrably a landscape image that does not have any text. The service crops the image. Maximum file size: 10MB. Allowed file extensions: jpeg jpg png
Banner image	Optional	Preferrably a landscape image that does not have any text. The service crops the image. Maximum file size: 10MB. Allowed file extensions: jpeg jpg png
Scopes enabled	Optional	Check if you want to have Scopes filtering in this conference
Scope	Optional	Which Scope does this conference belongs to.
Show statistics	Optional	Check if you want to show the Statistics section.
Start date	Required	When will this conference start. Expected format: dd/mm/yyyy
End date	Required	When will this conference end. Expected format: dd/mm/yyyy
Registrations enabled	Optional	Check if you want to handle registrations on the platform.
Available slots	Optional	Leave it to 0 if you have unlimited slots available.
Registration terms	Required if "Registrations enabled" is checked	What are the terms of service or conditions that a participant must accept for registering in this conference?
Related participatory processes	Optional	Select the processes that are related to this conference. Use the ctrl function to select more than one option.
Related Assemblies	Optional	Select the assemblies that are related to this conference. Use the ctrl function to select more than one option.
Related Consultations	Optional	Select the consultations that are related to this conference. Use the ctrl function to select more than one option.

Creating the program

For creating the program of the conference you need to create a new Meeting component with the dates and times of the different talks, workshops, sessions, etc. After publishing the meetings, it will be visible in the landing page and there’ll be a special navigation for these meetings so they’re ordered by date and time.

Conferences program (frontend)