josephitopa / acl-2020-virtual-conference

Repository for the ACL 2020 virtual conference website (work in progress)

Mini-Conf

MiniConf is a virtual conference in a box. It is designed to be:

• Run based on static files hosted by any server.
• Modifiable without a database using CSV files.
• Easy to extend to fit any backend or additional frontend tools.

Get Started

> pip install -r requirements.txt
> make run

When you are ready to deploy run make freeze to get a static version of the site in the build folder.

Tour

The MiniConf repo:

1. Datastore sitedata/

Collection of CSV files representing the papers, speakers, workshops, and other important information for the conference.

2. Routing main.py

One file flask-server handles simple data preprocessing and site navigation.

3. Templates templates/

Contains all the pages for the site. See base.html for the master page and components.html for core components.

4. Frontend static/

Contains frontend components like the default css, images, and javascript libs.

5. Scripts scripts/

Contains additional preprocessing to add visualizations, recommendations, schedules to the conference.

6. For importing calendars as schedule see scripts/README_Schedule.md

Example

Mini-Conf was design to host ICLR 2020 a virtual conference with 6000 participants.

Acknowledgements

MiniConf was built by Hendrik Strobelt and Sasha Rush.

Thanks to Darren Nelson for the original design sketches. Shakir Mohamed, Martha White, Kyunghyun Cho, Lee Campbell, and Adam White for planning and feedback. Hao Fang, Junaid Rahim, Jake Tae, Yasser Souri, Soumya Chatterjee, and Ankshita Gupta for contributions.