Hello, we have used conftool http://www.conftool.net/ There is a small version with less functions which is free for small conferences (less than 150 participants) and a more sophisticated one with a lot of functions: submitting abstracts, submitting full papers, managing reviewers and the results of reviews, send bulkmail to groups of people (authors, reviewers, reviewers who have not completed their reviews yet), registration, scheduling of the talks and so on. cheers, Sonja Utz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Sonja Utz Department of Communication Science VU University Amsterdam De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands phone: +31 20 5989184 email: s.utz@fsw.vu.nl http://www.sonja-utz.de -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org]Namens fred@bytesforall.org Verzonden: woensdag 22 oktober 2008 20:49 Aan: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Onderwerp: Re: [Air-L] Conferencing software for next year I thought my colleagues organising the foss.in conference in Bangalore had some Free (as in Freedom) Software/Open Source code available for managing their mega event. But I could not find a link to what exactly they're using. See a link to their registration system (currently up): https://foss.in/2008/register/speakers/addSpeaker.php Trawled freshmeat.net and found OpenConf A conference management system, including workshops & symposia. http://freshmeat.net/projects/openconf/ See this discussion on Slashdot, but I can't find too many useful links up there: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/02/1954247&tid=215&tid=185&tid=... Sourceforge.net has eight or so options: http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words="conference+management" Yet Another Conference Management System YACOMAS (Yet another conference management system). A Conference management system written in PHP and MySQL http://sourceforge.net/projects/yacomas/ Conference Management System COMS is a Technical Conference management system. It provides a web interface for managing a conference. Some of the brief facilites include submission of papars by authors, reviewing those paper by reviewers and conference supervision by the chair. http://sourceforge.net/projects/coms/ CMS - Conference Management System CMS is built based on the SOA design principle and it offers a nice looking web UI and a simple web service interface. It utilizes maven2, struts2, axis2, jboss, ejb3 and many other java technologies and tools. http://sourceforge.net/projects/conf-management/ phpConfMan PHP based Conference Management, Attendance Tracking, & Certificate System (for Continuing Education Units - CEUs). http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpconfman/ Web Conference Management Tool WCMT is a PHP-MySQL based tool for the management of scientific conferences and congresses. It allows the convenor to manage the review process of a medium to big sized conference. http://sourceforge.net/projects/wcmt/ iConf This project aims to provide a conference management system. http://sourceforge.net/projects/iconf08/ TMTSYS 2.0 TMTSys is a conference management system. It has been used for IEEE APWCS 2003, MMRC Workshop 2003-2005, IEEE ICCE 2006-2008. The version 2.0 has been released with some new interesting features. The user interfaces are simplified. http://sourceforge.net/projects/tmtsys/ Confman Confman is a web based system for conference management http://sourceforge.net/projects/confman/ FN 2008/10/22 I Kushchu <ik@mgovernment.org>:
Actually, I also would be very glad to hear some feedback on conference software. Kushchu
On 22 Oct 2008, at 18:34, Ingbert Floyd wrote:
I'd be interested in hearing about them on-list. Maybe I'm the only one, but I think it would be interesting to see a group discussion of conference system requirements by internet experts. While we might not be able to implement them, it could help us all evaluate such systems better *before* we obtain the necessary experience the hard way.
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