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 symposion
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-symposion is a conference management solution from Eldarion. It was built with the generous support of the Python Software Foundation. See http://eldarion.com/symposion/ for commercial support, customization and hosting.
+``symposion`` is a conference management solution from Eldarion. It was built with the generous support of the Python Software Foundation. See http://eldarion.com/symposion/ for commercial support, customization and hosting.
 
 
 Quickstart
 ==========
 
-To install Symposion, run:
+To install ``symposion``, run:
 
     pip install symposion
 
-Symposion is a Django app. You will need to create a Django project to
+``symposion`` is a Django app. You will need to create a Django project to
 customize and manage your Symposion installation. We have built a basic
-Django startproject template that includes Symposion (https://github.com/pinax/pinax-project-symposion).
+Django startproject template that includes ``symposion`` (https://github.com/pinax/pinax-project-symposion).
 
 
 Documentation
 ---------------
-The symposion documentation is available at https://symposion.readthedocs.org/en/latest/.
+The ``symposion`` documentation is available at https://symposion.readthedocs.org/en/latest/.
 The Pinax documentation is available at http://pinaxproject.com/pinax/.
 
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