User Dashboard Guide

Think of the User Dashboard as your home base inside OCG. It brings upcoming events, profile, invitations, proposal writing, and submission tracking into one place so moving from participant to speaker feels smooth.

For a fast end-to-end walkthrough first, use Quickstart.

Path: /dashboard/user

Sections:

• User Dashboard Structure
• My Events: Upcoming Participation
• Profile: Public Identity
• Invitations: Unlock Organizer Access
• Session Proposals: Reusable Talks
• Submissions: Track and Respond
• Audit: Logs
• Recommended Working Rhythm

User Dashboard Structure

The dashboard is organized into five areas:

• My Events
• Profile
• Invitations
• Session proposals
• Submissions
• Logs

Each area supports a different part of your participation in OCG: events, profile, access, audit visibility, proposals, and submissions.

My Events: Upcoming Participation

My Events is your personal queue of upcoming events where you already have an active role.

Each row includes:

• Event title with a direct link to the public event page.
• Event location.
• Event date and time.
• Your participation roles in that event (Attendee, Host, Speaker, or multiple roles).
• Your attendance status when action is still needed, such as Payment pending or Registration pending.

When a row is marked Payment pending, use the row actions menu to complete checkout while the ticket hold is still active, even if public registration closes after checkout started. When a row is marked Registration pending, use the row actions menu to complete the event's registration questions. You can update submitted answers from the same menu before the event starts while registration is open, while an active checkout hold exists, or when an organizer invited you manually.

If organizers configured a registration window, new public registration actions are disabled outside that window. Organizer-created manual invitations and active checkout holds are the exceptions for completing required registration questions from My Events.

Filtering behavior:

• Includes only upcoming published events.
• Excludes canceled events.
• Excludes events from inactive or deleted groups.

Sorting behavior:

• Ordered by date ascending, so the next event appears first.

Profile: Public Identity

Profile is not just cosmetic. Organizers, co-speakers, and reviewers use this information when collaborating with you.

You can maintain:

• Personal details: name, timezone, company, title, photo, bio, interests.
• Location: city and country.
• Social links: website, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X, Facebook, GitHub.
• Notification preferences.

Field requirements and limits are shown inline in the dashboard forms while you edit.

Notification preferences:

• Receive optional notifications controls broader announcements such as new event announcements, event reminders, and custom messages from organizers.
• Turning this off does not disable account, invitation, registration, speaker, refund, waitlist, cancellation, or reschedule updates.

Invitations: Unlock Organizer Access

When a alliance or group invites you to help run operations, or an organizer invites you to attend an event, the invitation appears here. Accepting an invitation updates your access or confirms your event attendance.

Invitation statuses:

• Alliance and group team invites: Invitation sent, accepted, rejected.
• Event invitations: Invitation sent, accepted, rejected.
• Pending team invites do not grant dashboard access until accepted.
• Invitation rows include the role that will be assigned on acceptance.
• Pending event invitations do not make you an attendee until accepted.

When someone invites you to a team, you receive an in-app and email invitation with a direct path to accept or decline.

When someone invites you to an event by email, sign in with LF SSO using the LF account whose primary email matches the invited address. If the email on your LF account is different, OCG cannot connect the invitation to your login and you will not be able to accept it.

Typical post-accept behavior:

1. Access is granted to the related scope.
2. The assigned alliance/group role becomes active for permission checks.
3. Event invitations become confirmed attendance and send the normal event confirmation.
4. Pending invitation state clears.
5. A refresh or re-login may be needed before navigation updates.

If organizer dashboards still do not appear, see Choose Your Dashboard and Troubleshooting.

Session Proposals: Reusable Talks

Session proposals is where you manage talk proposals you can reuse across events. This helps you keep your talk content consistent while submitting to different events.

Create flow:

1. Click New proposal.
2. Complete required fields (Title, Level, Duration, Description).
3. Optionally add a co-speaker by username search.
4. Save and reuse the proposal in eligible event CFS flows.

For event-side CFS controls and reviewer operations, see Event Operations.

Proposal Status Model

Base statuses:

• Ready for submission
• Awaiting co-speaker response
• Declined by co-speaker

Derived badges may also appear:

• Submitted (used in one or more event submissions).
• Linked (already tied to an approved session).

When a Proposal Gets Locked

!> Linked proposals cannot be edited. Submitted proposals can still be updated, but delete and some co-speaker changes are blocked.

• Linked is a hard lock. Once a proposal is linked to an accepted event session, it is treated as delivery content and can no longer be edited in place.
• Submitted is a partial lock. You can still improve most proposal content, but some operations become constrained because the proposal is already in review history:
  • Delete is blocked.
  • Co-speaker changes are restricted after submission.

Status-related submission locks:

• Awaiting co-speaker response and Declined by co-speaker are not full edit locks, but they do block CFS submission eligibility until co-speaker state is resolved.

Co-Speaker Invitations

If another speaker invites you as co-speaker, OCG shows an in-app alert with actions to view, accept, or decline. This keeps proposal ownership clear without hidden side effects.

Co-speaker invite statuses appear with your proposal workflow: pending, accepted, or declined.

Submissions: Track and Respond

Once you submit a proposal from an event page, Submissions becomes your control center for review progress.

Common statuses:

• Not reviewed
• Information requested
• Approved
• Rejected
• Withdrawn

Action behavior:

• Resubmit appears when status is Information requested.
• Withdraw stays available while the submission is active and not finalized.
• Withdraw is blocked for finalized or linked outcomes.

When organizers change your submission review state, OCG sends an update message with the new status and any action you need to take.

To understand where submission decisions are made, see Event Operations.

Audit: Logs

AUDIT -> Logs is the last section in the left dashboard menu. It provides an actor-based audit trail for actions you performed from the user dashboard and account settings.

Coverage in this view includes:

• Invitation accept and reject actions.
• Session proposal create, update, delete, and co-speaker invitation decisions.
• Submission resubmits and withdrawals.
• Account profile and password updates.

Table behavior:

• Rows are ordered by newest first by default.
• You can filter by Action and date range.
• You can switch ordering between newest first and oldest first.
• Pagination keeps the active filters applied.
• Details opens a popover when an audit row has extra metadata.

Scope note:

• This screen shows actions performed by the signed-in user.
• It does not try to list unrelated actions performed by other people against your account.

Recommended Working Rhythm

?> Review this list regularly so invitations and submission deadlines do not catch you by surprise.

1. Keep profile current (especially bio, timezone, and links).
2. Track My Events to stay ahead of upcoming commitments.
3. Clear invitations quickly so role-based access stays accurate.
4. Build reusable proposals before deadlines.
5. Submit to events where CFS is open.
6. Watch Submissions and respond fast when information is requested.