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General Features

• Multilanguage Support via INI file, German and English included. Remembers the users’ selected language in a cookie.
• Customizable Appearance (Templates based on XHTML and CSS)
• Admin Interface to see all Conferences, PINs and the bookers’ eMail address. The Admin can delete Conferences and see current participants.

Booking System

• Remembers Name and eMail Address of the user (Cookies)
• Bookings can be made for the current day and any day in the future
• Current participants can be viewed through the webinterface (only if the conference is active) by applying a PIN (Admin can always view the participants without applying a PIN) or through a link included in the invitation
• eMail Confirmations / Invitation (Outlook / iCal) with booking information can be sent to users directly from the booking page. eMail includes a link to the “Current Participants” page that will also allow the see the participants after the conference is over (History).
• Allows setting two different PINs for a) normal users and b) listeners only (One Way Conference)

Integration with Swyx

• No interaction with the Swyx Database through PHP scripts, thus Swyx Database will not be manipulated or altered in any way
• ECR script does only read from MySQL, insertions are made through HTTP calls

Planned Features / Changes

• Booking: Allow user to set his own time zone
• Booking: Real 12h/24h support
• Booking: Update the time drop downs depending on the other drop down
• User: Allow user to delete and edit conferences
• Admin: Allow editing of bookings and resend invitation letters
• Internal: improve error handling / input validation

I would like to use this announcement to thank Stephan for his great effort on initiating this project and to release it as open source. I am sure it will be highly welcomed by the community and it will evolve over the time.