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James Polley

urlize abstracts

I've looked through the database and I can't find any accepted
proposals that actually contain anything to linkify - but I've had
several requests from people that I think are reasonable, things like
being able to link to their project (we ask them to provide a project
url but we don't use that link)

This seems like a reasonably fast way to let those people add a
link. We still have to manually accept changes to their proposal so we
have a chance to look at the content of the url if we want.

The urlize filter adds rel=nofollow to the link automatically.

Speaker App
===========

The ``speaker`` app allows speakers to set up their profile, prior to or as
part of the proposal submission phase. The **dashboard** is the means through
which speakers manage their own profiles.

We are planning to make the Speaker model more pluggable so, if you have
particular fields you'd like your speakers to fill out, you'll be able to
customize things more easily.

Additional Speakers
-------------------

Because ``symposion`` supports additional speakers being attached to a
proposal or actual presentation, it has the notion of a ``Speaker`` that is
not yet a ``User`` on the site. For this reason, a ``Speaker`` may have a
NULL ``user`` field (hopefully temporarily) as well as an ``invite_email``
and ``invite_token`` field for the invitation sent to the additional speaker
to join.

.. todo:: perhaps explain the invitation flow