[okfn-discuss] Any suggestions for off-the-shelf registration form code?

[Benj. Mako Hill]

<quote who="Rufus Pollock" date="Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 05:56:04PM +0100">
> We've got various events coming up including the forum on civic 
> information in November. It would be useful to have some way for people 
> to register themselves. In the past we've either:
> 
>   1. Just asked people to email
>   2. Thrown together a php script to do this
> 
> (1) is rather time consuming (particularly if you need to send 
> acknowledgements etc) while with (2) one often finds that the form ends 
> up getting spammed to death (the moral of this seems to be that it is 
> harder than one might imagine to write something simple and robust).
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions for existing code 'out there' that 
> could be used?

Debian conferences use this:
  http://www.comas-code.org/

I suspect it might be a lot more than you want and since I've never
been involved in Debconf organization, I can't speak to it either
positively or negatively.

Later,
Mako

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