SchellingBoard

A web app for managing event scheduling — attendees can propose sessions, vote on them, and view the final schedule. Built with Next.js and SQLite.

The name is a tongue-in-cheek reference to Schelling points — focal points that people naturally converge on without explicit coordination. SchellingBoard is the ironic opposite: a tool that enables explicit coordination. Attendees propose sessions and vote, creating a concrete consensus that wouldn't emerge on its own.

This is a public open-source fork of rachelweinberg12/scheduling-app. Rachel Weinberg, the original author, does not wish to maintain a public open-source project herself but agreed to this fork serving that role. See LICENSING_HISTORY.md for details.

Features

• Session proposals — attendees submit and browse session ideas
• Voting — attendees express interest (interested / maybe / skip) before the schedule is set
• Scheduling board — place sessions on a time/location grid
• 1-on-1s — attendees mark when they are free and book short meetings with each other
• Event phases — proposal, voting, and scheduling phases with configurable date ranges
• Multi-event support — host multiple events from one deployment
• Kiosk mode — append ?kiosk=1 to a schedule URL for large screens at the venue: a red line marks the current time, the schedule auto-scrolls to it and refreshes periodically, and the screen is kept awake. The schedule stays fully interactive. Kiosk mode sticks across navigation once set — turn it off with ?kiosk=0. Combine with loc filters (e.g. ?kiosk=1&loc=Main+Hall) to show only some rooms.
• Site password protection — optional single-password gate for the whole app

More screenshots at schellingboard.org.

Hosting

See docs.schellingboard.org for deployment and administration instructions. Docker images are published on Docker Hub.

Attendees

See the attendee guide for how to propose, vote, and use the schedule — worth sharing with your event's attendees.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.

Development

See CONTRIBUTING.md to get started, and developers.schellingboard.org for the full developer documentation (the same documentation but as plain markdown files lives under docs/dev/).

License

MIT. See LICENSE.txt and LICENSING_HISTORY.md.