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  WDI Conference

WDI Conference

Overview

WDI Conference is a mock technology conference run by the students of General Assembly.

Objective

To build a website for a technology conference that included the following:

• Location and conference information
• Timetable and title of presentations/talks
• Speakers profiles
• The ability to purchase a ticket
• Sponsors

Technologies used

1. Ruby On Rails
2. JavaScript including the following libraries:
   • Smoothscroll.js
   • Handlebars.js
   • Typed.js
   • Backfix.js
   • ClassyCountdown.js
   • jQuery
   • Ajax
3. PostgreSQL
4. HTML5
5. Sass / CSS3
6. Heroku hosting

Key Features

• Users can purchase tickets to the conference and will receive a confirmation email displaying their tickets with respective seat numbers
• Users can sign up to apply to be a speaker for the conference
• Administrator can log in to see amount of tickets sold as well as approve/reject applications from users to be a speaker
• Administrator can add future events
• Surprise Gimmick when clicking on "Sad Panda" in the Sponsors section (users with highest panda score may win a free ticket to the conference)

Links

Check out the site(best viewed in Chrome) WDI CONF 2016

Dummy login details for access below:

Administrator

Email: emily@email.com Password: pudding

User

Email: pudding@ga.co Password: pudding

Team members

Links to our GitHub accounts:

• Bevin
• Emily
• Leo
• Keith
• Chris

Acknowledgements

Thanks to DT, Matt, JB and the iterm8s class for all the assistance and guidance!

This project was undertaken as part of the General Assembly WDI course.

Built With

• css3
• heroku-hosting
• html5
• javascript
• postgresql
• ruby-on-rails
• saas