Change conference name from multi-lingual field to CharField

[marcoacierno]

Convert Conference.name from I18nCharField to models.CharField

Changes

• Convert Conference.name from I18nCharField to models.CharField
• Remove unused I18nCharField import from conference model
• Create migration 0055 to handle database schema change
• Update GraphQL Conference type to use regular field instead of localized resolver

Closes #4066

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[marcoacierno]

@claude there are a few places where we do conference.name.localize(language_code). We don't ned the localize anymore, we can use name directly

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Finding and fixing conference.name.localize() calls ✅

• [x] Read repository setup instructions (CLAUDE.md)
• [x] Search for all instances of conference.name.localize
• [x] Update each instance to use direct name access
• [x] Run linting/testing if available
• [x] Commit and push changes

Completed! Found and updated 25 instances across 11 files:

• backend/sponsors/tests/test_tasks.py ✅
• backend/sponsors/tasks.py ✅
• backend/submissions/tests/test_admin.py ✅
• backend/submissions/admin.py ✅
• backend/submissions/tasks.py ✅
• backend/schedule/views.py ✅
• backend/grants/tests/test_tasks.py ✅
• backend/grants/tasks.py ✅
• backend/schedule/tests/test_views.py ✅
• backend/schedule/tests/test_tasks.py ✅
• backend/schedule/video_upload.py ✅
• backend/schedule/tasks.py ✅

All instances of conference.name.localize(language_code) have been replaced with direct conference.name usage to match the CharField conversion. Changes committed and pushed to the PR branch.

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[marcoacierno]

@claude We likely need to update the ConferenceFactory as well to not set name as a multi-lingual field anymore

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Updating ConferenceFactory to use CharField

• [x] Read repository setup instructions (CLAUDE.md)
• [x] Search for ConferenceFactory in the codebase
• [x] Analyze current multi-lingual implementation
• [x] Update factory to use simple CharField
• [ ] Run linting/testing if available
• [ ] Commit and push changes

Updated ConferenceFactory and test:

• Changed name = LanguageFactory("name") to name = factory.Faker("word") in backend/conferences/tests/factories.py:27
• Updated test in backend/conferences/tests/test_models.py to use simple string instead of LazyI18nString
• Removed unused LazyI18nString import

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