Qafoo GmbH - passion for software quality
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:Author: 		Kore Nordmann
:Date:			Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:18:33 +0100
:Revision: 		11
:Copyright:		All rights reserved


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Remember your calls for papers
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:Keywords:  conference, call for papers, php, cfp, reminder
:Description:
    Qafoo provides a little tool which allows PHP conference speakers to keep
    track of call for papers and to remind them about proposing talks.
:Abstract:
    Do you speak at PHP conferences regularly? Or do you plan to do so? Do you
    occasionally forget when the *call for papers* for a conference starts or
    ends?  So, you have a similar problem than we have. And we hacked up a
    simple solution: `The Call For Papers manager (qaCFP)`__ …

__ http://cfps.qafoo.com

Do you speak at PHP conferences regularly? Or do you plan to do so? Do you
occasionally forget when the *call for papers* for a conference starts or ends?
So, you have a similar problem than we have. And we hacked up a simple
solution: `The Call For Papers manager (qaCFP)`__.

__ http://cfps.qafoo.com

The tool works quite simple: You can `add CFPs`__ you know about and which are
relevant for the PHP community through a simple form. In order to remember the
CFPs, you can configure two kinds of reminders:

- For `upcoming CFPs`__
- For `ending CFPs`__

__ http://cfps.qafoo.com/cfp/new
__ http://cfps.qafoo.com/reminder/upcoming
__ http://cfps.qafoo.com/reminder/ending

For each of these lists, you can determine when to be reminded, like *2 days*
before the event occurs. These lists can then be easily integrated into your
normal feed reader using an RSS or Atom feed.

.. note::
   qaCFP is written on basis of Apache Zeta Components. Do you need `training
   or support`__ for this high quality PHP component library?

__ /services/training.html

For example, if you want to get a reminder 1 week before a CFP ends through
RSS, you use the URL http://cfps.qafoo.com/reminder/ending/1_week.rss.

We hope to make life a bit easier for conference speakers with this tool.
Please feel invited to use it and to contribute CFPs to it. Feedback is very
welcome as a comment on this blog post. Cheers!

P.S. There are only 2 (currently running) CFPs in the system as this blog post
is written. So you need to choose a somewhat extensive reminder config to see
anything useful. For example look at the `CFPs ending in the next 6 months`__
reminder.

__ http://cfps.qafoo.com/reminder/ending/2_months

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- Arne at Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:36:07 +0100

  Nice! In order to fill your CfP manager with content, you might want to have
  a look at http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/

  Cheers, Arne