Automated conference scheduling powered by Elm

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NoConf is an automated conference scheduler that combines a Scala backend AI solver with an Elm frontend to satisfy hard requirements and optimize soft preferences, including non-destructive replanning that minimally changes a published agenda. It provides drag-and-drop assignment with immediate feedback, generates Elm types/encoders/decoders from Scala endpoints to avoid boilerplate, and already schedules real events such as DevOps Belgium (five days, up to ten tracks) and a game industry conference in Poland.

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1. 0:00Introduction to project
2. 1:49Problem of scheduling talks
3. 5:27Requirements vs preferences
4. 7:24Handling agenda changes
5. 8:30Why use Elm
6. 10:59UI library challenges
7. 12:04Boilerplate code issues
8. 13:55Long-standing bugs
9. 14:37Real-world adoption

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