e-mail "remind all speakers who haven't yet uploaded their slides"

[laf0rge]

Right now the "resources" are quite flexible/free-form, so this request is probably hard to implement. However, if there was a more formal type such as "Slides", then one could have the following feature:

• send e-mails to all speakers who still haven't yet uploaded their slides

I think this is a very typical problem for a conference organizer, and having assistance for this in pretalx (rather than manually checking each "submission" if there's a related resource attached) would greatly simplify this work.

Thanks for your consideration.

[rixx]

I received the feedback that "resources" isn't very intuitive anyways, so I was thinking about naming them "attachments". We could then add attachment categories ("slides", "paper", plus any the organiser wishes to add?), and use that as a filter. It's definitely something pretalx should support.

[rixx]

This is an issue that is well-suited for external contributors – let me know if I can be of any help, either via this issue or via support@pretalx.com.

What this is about

pretalx provides an interface to send emails to speakers. Adding a template for submissions without uploaded files, and a button to transform that template to emails and send them would be great.

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How to do this

Add "speakers who have not uploaded files for their submissions" to the form used in the ComposeMail view in pretalx/orga/views/mails.py, and edit the form_valid method of that view accordingly.

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