FPish is a great place to share conferences and their content with the community. You can enter both past conferences and upcoming ones; FPish can help you with managing talk proposals, scheduling the final program, tracking and communicating with speakers and attendees, and cataloging all the conference content.

Creating a conference

To create your conference, all you need to do is the following:

1. Create a user group: just follow the instructions from here. The place of your conference will be the location you give in this step, but don't worry this can be changed later if needed.

2. Turn your user group to a conference:

   • Go to the landing page of your new user group, and click the Admin link in the group menu
   • Click the Turn to a conference tab
   • Give the start and end dates/times
   • Check the Can proposals be submitted? option if you are inviting talk proposals. When enabled, any FPish user can propose talks to your conference, and these proposals will be sent to you, the conference administrator. You then have the options of rejecting or accepting these talk proposals, and scheduling the accepted ones into the final program.
   • If you are accepting talk proposals, give the date when the talk proposal submission closes. By default, this is 30 days, feel free to change it as you wish.
   

Adding speakers

You need to add each speaker (past or upcoming) on the Speakers tab of your conference page:

1. Click Add

2. Select Existing in the first combo box. Always check whether the speaker you want to add already has a FPish account by selecting this option. Type the user's last name and see what users exist with that name and select the one you intended to add.

   

3. If you find that the speaker you want to add does not yet have a FPish account, you have two options:

   • Inviting them to join FPish: you can do so on the Invitations tab of your dashboard.
   • Creating an account implicitly.

4. If you decide to implicitly create a new FPish author, select New in the first combo box and fill out the user's author information:

   

When you are done, click Assign to add the given user as a speaker. He or she will then have the option in the Create Event/Course page to assign their new events to your conference. This means that you can ask them to add their own talks to your conference. You can also choose any talk proposal and schedule it in your conference program. And last, you have the option to manually add events in the name of your speakers on the New event/course page, by simply selecting on whose behalf you are creating those events.