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+Pinax Symposion
+===============
+
+Pinax Symposion is an open-source conference management system written in
+Django.  Symposion includes support for content management, proposal
+submission, reviews, scheduling and sponsor management.
+
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+
+   project
+   conference
+   content
+   proposals
+   sponsorship
+   speakers
+   schedule
+
+
+About
+-----
+
+Symposion came out of development done by Eldarion for DjangoCon US and US PyCon
+but has been independently used for a number of other conferences.
+The project homepage is http://eldarion.com/symposion/
+
+Indices and tables
+==================
+
+* :ref:`genindex`
+* :ref:`modindex`
+* :ref:`search`
+