Try it

There is no hosted demo, on purpose. An event portal only means something with people and roles in it, and the interesting side is the organisers’, which cannot be handed to strangers on a shared instance. On your own machine you get all of it.

What you need

• Docker with Docker Compose
• GNU Make
• Git

Run it

git clone https://github.com/mariatta/flashlights.git
cd flashlights
make serve

Open http://localhost:8000/. The instance is empty; give it a domain and fill it:

make manage set_site_domain localhost:8000
make seed

make seed runs seed_dev_data: an active edition and a past in-person one, volunteers on teams, speakers at every stage of their checklist, proposals in each state, sponsors and affiliations. It prints the logins when it finishes. The accounts it lists (organisers, volunteers, one speaker and one sponsor contact, an account a sponsor may have but does not need) use the password password123; the other speakers sign in with a code, which arrives in the local mail viewer at http://localhost:1080/.

Sign in as an organiser and open Organize. Then sign in as a speaker and see the same event from their side.

What to look at

• Organize, Speakers: the proposal queue, the invitations, each speaker’s checklist.
• Organize, Schedule: the editor, and the program widget it feeds.
• Organize, Teams: who may do what, and where that comes from.
• Sponsorship and Stats: on by default, each off with one variable.
• The account page: handles and pronouns, stored once and shared by every form.

Going further

The setup guide in the core documentation covers running without Docker, object storage against a local MinIO, the speaker sample data in detail and the tests. The user guide says what each part of the portal does and which parts a small event can skip.

When it does what you need, deploy it.