Jam

A realtime online discussions management system for conferences. Powered by Django and Django REST Framework. Inspired by sli.do.

Introdution

This is a web application for realtime online discussions for conferences or seminars. For every talk, the user can leave comments and reply to comments. In addition, the user can up-vote or down-vote the comments to change the showing order. Comments of the speakers of the talk will be highlighted.

Modules

Core

The core module of Jam. It manages components including:

Talks in a section.
Comments to a talk ("root comments"), and comments to another comment ("leaf comments").
Votes to a comment.

All of the components are related to the authentication user model by many-to-one or many-to-many relation. Hence, if the account module provided in Jam is not used, there must be another module for authentication installed. This can be configurated by setting AUTH_USER_MODEL to the full application label in settings.py.

The section module is optional. Only the talk model is related to the section model by many-to-one relation, and it is optional. This can be configurated by setting SECTION_MODEL to the full application label in settings.py.

Section

The module which manages the components of section in a conference.

Account

The module which manages the users.

Setup

Add core to INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py.
Set AUTH_USER_MODEL in settings.py to the full application label of the user model used for authentication. Add the application to INSTALLED_APPS.
Set SECTION_MODEL in settings.py to the full application label of the section model. Add the application to INSTALLED_APPS.