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Conference Programme — Progress Against a Stated Today

A twelve-week event plan with percentage progress on each task, checked against a `today` the DOCUMENT states rather than a clock. That is deliberate: an engine with a clock renders a different figure tomorrow, which cannot be cached, diffed, thumbnailed or verified. Reports clean, with the progress on every bar consistent with the dates around it.

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Northline Conference 2026 — Gantt chart with critical path9 tasks; from 2026-01-05 to 2026-03-13, 50 working days; 5 on the critical path; every check ran and found nothing.Northline Conference 2026Mo 5 Jan 2026 → Fr 13 Mar 2026 · 50 working days · 68 calendar dayscritical path: cfp → review → site → promo → openshorten first: cfp (up to 15d) · promo (up to 13d) · review (up to 10d)Jan 2026Feb 2026Mar 2026Apr 202651219262916232916233061320ProgrammeLogisticsMarketingSS+5dSS+5d▲ Call for papers15d · shorten → 15d · 100% · ops▲ Review submissions10d · shorten → 10d · 100% · opsConfirm speakers8d · float 17d · 60% · opsVenue contract6d · float 37d · 100% · opsCatering5d · float 40d · 100% · opsAV and streaming7d · float 37d · 100% · ops▲ Site and ticketing12d · shorten → nothing · 30% · ops▲ Promotion20d · shorten → 13d · ops▲ Doors open2026-03-13today 2026-02-16Doors open 2026-04-24Resource loadEvents teamcritical — zero floatnear-criticalhas floattotal floatmilestonenon-working daybaselineEvery check ran, and none of them found anything.·Mo 5 Jan 2026 to Fr 13 Mar 2026 — 50 working days across 68 calendar days, on a Mo–Fr week·one critical path, through 5 tasks — shortening any one of them shortens the project, up to the point another path becomes binding·to finish sooner, shorten `cfp` by up to 15 working days (the whole task); `promo` by up to 13 working days (then the next-longest path becomes binding); `review` by up to 10 working days (the whole task).Anything beyond those figures moves nothing — the gain from taking δ days off a task is min(δ, the figure above), and it is zero for every critical task not listed here.✓the deadline of 2026-04-24 (Doors open) is met with 30 working days to spare

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title "Northline Conference 2026"
start 2026-01-05
calendar mon-fri
today 2026-02-16
deadline 2026-04-24 "Doors open"

resource ops "Events team" capacity 3

section "Programme"
  task cfp    "Call for papers" 15d assign ops done 100%
  task review "Review submissions" 10d after cfp assign ops done 100%
  task invite "Confirm speakers" 8d after review assign ops done 60%

section "Logistics"
  task venue  "Venue contract" 6d assign ops done 100%
  task cater  "Catering" 5d after ss:venue +5d assign ops done 100%
  task av     "AV and streaming" 7d after venue assign ops done 100%

section "Marketing"
  task site   "Site and ticketing" 12d after review assign ops done 30%
  task promo  "Promotion" 20d after ss:site +5d assign ops
  milestone open "Doors open" after invite, av, promo