[FSPA] Magfest.

[sigma at pair.com]

> Other events I attend (Shmoocon in DC) have issues where tickets sell out 
> in seconds and they're used to having to build huge load balanced 
> infrastructure that is needed for about 2 minutes a year, doubt that is a 
> thing for MAGFest yet.
> 
> MAGFest kind of grew up around this in-house written Python based 
> management system. It handles schedules, staffers, registration, food and 
> some other details. A lot of development work is put into it but it still 
> can have issues, and I'm not sure of it's scalability :-)

We just use Showclix for this and their system scales up with no problems.
Since they have lots of other events at various times, they are always
prepared and the design of the overall system doesn't go to waste.

Kevin