The Integrated Digital Conference (Indico) tool allows you to schedule and organize events, from simple lectures to complex meetings, workshops and conferences with sessions and contributions. You can manage time-tables of meetings, attach multimedia files to each event item and store the resulting agendas in a multi-level hierarchical tree.

This tool also includes an advanced user delegation mechanism, allow paper reviewing, archival of conference information and electronic proceedings. BNL's instance is installed under GNU General Public License (see CERN's project web site for details).

General Information

• BNL Indico Site (https://indico.bnl.gov/)
• Creating a New Indico Account
• Indico User Guide
    - Creating/Using Meeting Templates (Meeting (agenda) timetable w/multiple sessions, etc.)
    - Creating/Using Conference Templates (Full website with navigation)
    - Creating/Using Lecture Templates (Seminar, single event, presenter or speaker)
  
• Anti-virus and dangerous attachment scanning/quarantine
• Demo Sites:
    - Meeting/Agenda (Meeting timetable with multiple sessions, etc.)
    - Conference (Full website with navigation)
  
• Web Access Information (Description of manage/editing roles and site access control)
• Material Protection (How to enable/disable material protection)
• Benefits
• Indico Support

Creating a New Indico Account

1. Click here to create a new user account and complete the online account creation form.
2. After the submission of your personal data, an email will be sent to you. [Activate] your account by clicking on the link inside the email.

Please note, this is not a conference registration form, but an Indico account creation request. Your new user account will not have any special rights or will not be able to do anything until it is activated and is assigned to an Indico event by an Indico Conference/Meeting/Lecture Manager or by Web/Unix Services.

Please send an email to the ITD Helpdesk at itdhelp@bnl.gov and ask to have Web Services assign your user rights to your event.

Benefits

• Easy to use
• Centrally supported by ITD Unix Services
• Widely used by many labs and institutions world wide
• Compile and download event file packages (.zip format)
• Badge printing
• Create an offline website for your event
• Free to use!

Indico Support

Please contact Web Services for all requests, comments and problems with Indico, such as:

• Need a category created for an upcoming event
• Need an event calendar set up
• Login issues
• User account creation or other issues
• Experiencing problems with Indico in general
• Online Help

Last Modified: April 20, 2012

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