Webapp for designing a schedule for mutiple concurrent tasks and many people

Question

We are doing a huge three-day event with many tasks that go on in parallel, done by many people (some team, some volunteers). We are looking for a web app that may help in the following tasks:

1. Create a detailed agenda for tasks and people
2. Enable volunteers to select what they want to do
3. Print the agenda in calendar view with details about who/where/when

It would be an added benefit if the web interface was easy to use; maybe there'd be a way to import XLS or CSV files with tasks/schedules…

Any recommendation?

Answer 1

You should be able to do this with Doodle: http://doodle.com/

Create an event for your 3 dates, then restrict the selections for to limit the participant to one per event.

You can look at a test here or here for the admin interface (I couldn't find how to add more description for each timeslot though)

Answer 2

you should give http://www.zoho.com/projects/ a try

and take a look at this list http://tomuse.com/top-10-best-free-online-project-management-application-services/

Answer 3

I have never used it an a large scale project but have always been partial to Remember the Milk.