noPlan is a online conference planner that aims to replace the 'classic' PDF document that is usually used for big conferences.
###Introduction### Conferences that last more than one day usually have hundreds of visitors and many different speeches. The plans for these conferences are usually provided as a classic PDF file showing all presentations on one big page. It is difficult for users to choose what they really want to see and it’s also hard for the hosts to keep those plans up to date. Therefore we are trying to determine the most intuitive ways of planning such events. Users should have an easy solution to attend to these presentations without having a plan in their pockets. It should be possible for hosts to maintain their timetable within our web application in a timely easily way.
###Main Goals### Our thesis has two main objectives: The maintenance of conferences (“the backend”) and attendance (“the user frontend”). We try to combine these views by using the same pages with different user permissions. This allows the host to log in and have access to the same view with additional editing functionality. As we are also trying to use future-proof state-of-the-art frameworks in the frontend and in the backend it is not always easy to develop the application. As mobile devices have become very important, it’s also one of our main focuses to be compatible to computers, tablets and smartphones.