Functionality

• Calendar
• Participants
  • Organizers
    • Admins (fka "Privileged")
      • Add events to calendar
      • Add tasks to events
      • Add other organizers
    • Committee leaders (fka "Non-privileged")
      • TODO: Clarify role later
  • Non-privileged participants
    • Added by organizers along with contact info
    • Can customize own contact info (?)
• Events
  • Each event has associated tasks
• Track completion of tasks
• Track completion of events based on completion of its tasks
• Committees
  • Managed by organizers
• Email
  • SMTP (real email)
  • Can be sent from and received by users/groups
    • What's a group?
  • Automatic email reminders for important dates/events
• Budget
  • Managed by organizer
• Reports
  • Budget
  • Calendar of events/tasks
  • Event details
    • Name
    • Location
    • Duration
    • Required tools/equipment
    • Handler/manager/chair
  • Task progress
• Forms
  • Registration
  • Budget
    • Expense
      • Location
      • Usage:
        • Hourly
        • Daily
        • All event
      • Description
    • Income
      • Registration fees
      • Fundraising
  • Sub-events
    • Used to create schedule
    • Types:
      • During actual event
      • Pre-events
      • Post-events
    • Fields (see Data)
  • Buttons on each form
    • Save
    • Cancel
• Non-privileged participants
  • Read-only access to events/tasks
  • No access to other participants' contact info
  • Read-write access to own contact info
• Low priority:
  • Printing/previewing
  • Exporting

Data

• Participants
  • Name
  • Address
  • Phone number
  • Email address
  • Affiliation
  • Selected sub-events that they will be attending
  • Biographies
  • Are they presenting?
• Abstract: Event base
  • Name
  • Type (pre, post, during)
  • Duration
  • Date/time
  • Location
  • Description
• Event
  • Extends: Event base
  • Sub-events
    • Extends: Event base
• Budget items
  • TODO: Discuss further
  • Expense
    • Location
    • Usage:
      • Hourly
      • Daily
      • All event
    • Description
  • Income
    • Source
• Documentation for events

Usability

• Tab focus order should be taken into accounts #1
• Unified button labeling (Save, Cancel)
• Enter should submit dialog forms #10
• Only one layer of tabs #18
• Calendar
  • Jump to "Today" #20
  • Jump to arbitrary date #21
• Descriptive section labeling
• Controls should be sized to dialogs
• Calculated totals should be displayed on forms that take numerical input
• Validation of fields #3
• Everything should be cancelable
• Confirmation dialogs for destructive events
• Simplified UI
• In-program manual
• Placeholders for form fields where lacking labels #2

Reliability

• Security #19
• Shouldn't crash
• Preservation of data; avoid data loss
• Reliable database implementation (e.g. SQLite)
  • Consistency
  • CAP theorem
• Allow corrections to all information
• Exception handling

Performance

• No significant delays
• Threading for long-running tasks (low priority?)
  • Email
  • Exporting
  • Printing

Supportability

• Logging
• Enforce code style