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Posts for the month of May 2013

Indico 1.0 released

It is with great pleasure that we announce that Indico 1.0 has just been released.

http://indico-software.org/wiki/Releases/Indico1.0

(git tag v1.0)

91 tickets have been closed for this release. The full list is available at:

http://indico-software.org/query?group=status&milestone=v1.0

Here are some of the most relevant ones:

Events

  • Outlook plugin:
    • Now, Indico has a new plugin (calendaring) that enables the synchronisation of your participation in events with Outlook. When you are added as a participant in any event or when you register to a conference; an entry will show up in your personal Outlook calendar. Users can disable this option from its personal preferences.
  • Timetable:
    • The modification of contributions is now done via a popup.
    • When adding or editing a contribution, we can grant/revoke the submission rights of the speakers individually.
  • New Interfaces for:
    • Conference overview: added icons and new style.
    • Poster and Badges has been re-designed.
    • Option List and Scientific programme for Conference organization.
    • Warning pages: lock, delete, etc
  • Protection:
    • In the event protection page, warnings will be displayed if there are items inside it (contributions, sessions, materials) with a different protection.
  • Call for abstracts:
    • Added option to the setup page which enables track coordinators to directly accept or reject abstracts (before they could only propose).
    • Added feature to change a rejected abstract back to 'submitted' status.
  • List of Abstracts:
    • New layout for the list of abstracts, including a new tool bar and filters.
    • As well, new sorting criteria has been added: by modification date and by track.
  • Participants:
    • Added option to notify managers when a user applies for participation.
  • Conference support field:
    • Added the option to write, not only the email, but also the phone number.

Room booking

  • A new feature has been added to the room booking service. One can define the daily availability of a room. For instance, one could set that a room can be booked and used only from 8h30 to 17h30.
  • Third party applications can use our HTTP API in order to book a room.

General

  • When adding a new category manager, an email is triggered to all the other managers (optional)
  • Search has been pluginised.
  • HTTP API: added action to download files.
  • Performance improved: Using memcached (it can be enabled from indico.conf).

As usual, all your feedback is very important to us.

You will be hearing from us again in around 3-4 weeks time, when we will be releasing 1.1. This version is already in production at CERN and full of new features. You can already have a look here: ​https://indico.cern.ch/news.py

Have fun with the new version!

Best regards, The Indico Team