Conferencing software for next year
Hello, IR9.0 attendees! I hope you all enjoyed Copenhagen as much as I did. As mentioned at the AGM, one part of the conference folks may not has as much fun with is our conference management system. We are currently in the process of evaluating various solutions for next year's conference, and hope to make a decision shortly. If any of you have direct experience with a conferencing system used in another organization, I would love to hear from you. Thanks! Alex Halavais -- -- // // This email is // [X] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. // [ ] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. // // Alexander C. Halavais, cyberflâneur // http://alex.halavais.net //
Not to make too much work for those on the list, but we have been planning to use Open Conference Systems for an upcoming conference here at the University of Tennessee, and I would be interested in hearing (offlist) the kinds of problems encountered for the Copenhagen conference.. Chris Hodge University of Tennessee On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Alex Halavais wrote:
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:17:18 -0400 From: Alex Halavais <alex@halavais.net> Reply-To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Conferencing software for next year
Hello, IR9.0 attendees!
I hope you all enjoyed Copenhagen as much as I did. As mentioned at the AGM, one part of the conference folks may not has as much fun with is our conference management system. We are currently in the process of evaluating various solutions for next year's conference, and hope to make a decision shortly. If any of you have direct experience with a conferencing system used in another organization, I would love to hear from you.
Thanks!
Alex Halavais
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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. Ingbert On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:26 PM, <chodge5@utk.edu> wrote:
Not to make too much work for those on the list, but we have been planning to use Open Conference Systems for an upcoming conference here at the University of Tennessee, and I would be interested in hearing (offlist) the kinds of problems encountered for the Copenhagen conference..
Chris Hodge University of Tennessee
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Alex Halavais wrote:
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:17:18 -0400 From: Alex Halavais <alex@halavais.net> Reply-To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Conferencing software for next year
Hello, IR9.0 attendees!
I hope you all enjoyed Copenhagen as much as I did. As mentioned at the AGM, one part of the conference folks may not has as much fun with is our conference management system. We are currently in the process of evaluating various solutions for next year's conference, and hope to make a decision shortly. If any of you have direct experience with a conferencing system used in another organization, I would love to hear from you.
Thanks!
Alex Halavais
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I subscribe Ingbert's suggestion to keep that discussion on-list :) i. On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Ingbert Floyd <ifloyd2@gmail.com> 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.
Ingbert
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:26 PM, <chodge5@utk.edu> wrote:
Not to make too much work for those on the list, but we have been
planning
to use Open Conference Systems for an upcoming conference here at the University of Tennessee, and I would be interested in hearing (offlist) the kinds of problems encountered for the Copenhagen conference..
Chris Hodge University of Tennessee
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Alex Halavais wrote:
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:17:18 -0400 From: Alex Halavais <alex@halavais.net> Reply-To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Conferencing software for next year
Hello, IR9.0 attendees!
I hope you all enjoyed Copenhagen as much as I did. As mentioned at the AGM, one part of the conference folks may not has as much fun with is our conference management system. We are currently in the process of evaluating various solutions for next year's conference, and hope to make a decision shortly. If any of you have direct experience with a conferencing system used in another organization, I would love to hear from you.
Thanks!
Alex Halavais
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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.
Ingbert
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:26 PM, <chodge5@utk.edu> wrote:
Not to make too much work for those on the list, but we have been planning to use Open Conference Systems for an upcoming conference here at the University of Tennessee, and I would be interested in hearing (offlist) the kinds of problems encountered for the Copenhagen conference..
Chris Hodge University of Tennessee
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Alex Halavais wrote:
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:17:18 -0400 From: Alex Halavais <alex@halavais.net> Reply-To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Conferencing software for next year
Hello, IR9.0 attendees!
I hope you all enjoyed Copenhagen as much as I did. As mentioned at the AGM, one part of the conference folks may not has as much fun with is our conference management system. We are currently in the process of evaluating various solutions for next year's conference, and hope to make a decision shortly. If any of you have direct experience with a conferencing system used in another organization, I would love to hear from you.
Thanks!
Alex Halavais
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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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I should say (if we're going to be evaluating onlist various systems) that one of the things that appealed to us about OCS was its integration with Open Journal Systems and examples of universities that had integrated OJS and OCS into their institutional repositories. Having a lot of applications that don't talk to one another should be seen as a limitation in any evaluation. -c On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, [UTF-8] Frederick Noronha[UTF-8] [फ़र[UTF-8] ेदरिक[UTF-8] नोर[UTF-8] ोनया] wrote:
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:44:58 +0530 From: "[UTF-8] Frederick Noronha[UTF-8] [फ़र[UTF-8] ेदरिक[UTF-8] नोर[UTF-8] ोनया]" <fred@bytesforall.org> Reply-To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: 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.
-- FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org Blog: http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com Tech links from South Asia: http://twitter.com/fn M: +91-9822122436 P: +91-832-2409490 _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Chris Hodge University of Tennessee
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.
-- FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org Blog: http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com Tech links from South Asia: http://twitter.com/fn M: +91-9822122436 P: +91-832-2409490
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.
-- FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org Blog: http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com Tech links from South Asia: http://twitter.com/fn M: +91-9822122436 P: +91-832-2409490
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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Conftool is used by the General Online Research conference (http://www.gor.de/gor09/conftool_en.php) and I've found it very useful to manage registrations and submissions - both for the author as well as for the organizing team. Maybe someone from last year's GOR in Hamburg could share some of the experiences? best, tobias Sonja Utz wrote:
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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Hi, I have used conftool at General Online Research conference in three roles: 1. participant, 2. reviewer, and 3. as a former organizer who longed for such a system dearly. As a participant I generally welcomed the tool in '07 as a structured guide for everything related to the conference. On the downside, however, I disliked - yet another registration process - a number of usability issues (missing fields, forced response in some superfluous fields, lack of internationalization, navigation issues etc.) - no networked display of authored and co-authored papers (I could only see my own submissions, not those I co-authored) - related: despite the database behind the tool it is not possible to import and reuse data previously submitted to the system. One has to type in everything again and again, both from one submission to the next and also for co-authors who previously registered - having to log in to being able to look at the program; the program was always displayed in a weird format - past programs are not interlinked anymore (DGOF only has links to the older programs up to GOR'06 at http://mail.dgof.de/filenotfound.html) - programs are not searchable (they were in the earlier GOR conferences, see for example http://gor.de/gor04/index_3.html). This year there is a checkbox one is forced to check, if one wants to continue the submission of a paper. The text reads "Mandatory: I agree that my uploaded files (e.g. slides, poster) will be published on the conference website. (You will have the opportunity to revise details of the files shortly after the GOR.)". As a reviewer/member of the International Board I found it extremely aggravating to find out that the conference organizers' implementation of conftool contained a bug that erased all reviewers' comments to the authors before I alerted them to the fact. Even though they had a highly skilled programmer working hours and hours on conftool. I thus experienced what easily happens with such "magic systems" - the conference board had given away so much of its responsibility by trusting "the perfect system" that they first weren't clear on whose responsibility it was to respond, then denied the problem, then took the stance that the verbal feedback was of no importance (only the ratings). On the upside the system is able to automatically generate statistics about submissions and participants that support conference planning at all stages, and it also takes a load off of the organizers' shoulders by sending automated feedback and by integrating with payment systems. Finally, as a former organizer of that very conference I can imagine how much time and work can be saved. And a well-working Web application seems almost a *must* for our type of organization. It feels embarassing if Internet-related organizations don't make use of net technologies. But then, if they make use of it and fail... A last point: The rating procedure in conftool (10-point scales) suggested a degree of precision that was really not needed/ignored. I know of one colleague who had submitted two talks: the one with the lower ratings was accepted as a talk, the one with the higher ratings was accepted as a poster only. I guess much of the decision boils down to *how* the tool is implemented and maintained by the conference organizers. Be prepared for unpleasant surprises if you use it for the first time. Best --u At 11:56 Uhr +0200 23.10.2008, Tobias Escher wrote:
Conftool is used by the General Online Research conference (http://www.gor.de/gor09/conftool_en.php) and I've found it very useful to manage registrations and submissions - both for the author as well as for the organizing team.
Maybe someone from last year's GOR in Hamburg could share some of the experiences?
best, tobias
Sonja Utz wrote:
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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the one that i've been watching closely is pentabarf: http://www.pentabarf.org/Main_Page Jeremy Hunsinger Political Science Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow Center for Information Policy Research () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://wiki.tmttlt.com http://www.tmttlt.com You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. --Mark Twain
On 22 Oct 2008, at 18:34, Ingbert Floyd wrote:
I think it would be interesting to see a group discussion of conference system requirements by internet experts.
one such 'requirement' is that the system can support the 'submission/ review/response workflow' that the conference organizers want. My experience of the IR9 review process (others may disagree) was that whilst the progamme chair & reviewers had a view of the process they wanted, the system had a slightly different and rather 'fixed' model. This produced a certain amount of confusion. If the IR10 programme chair/committee's mental model of the submission process is not yet defined then deciding on a tool will be a bit premature...(unless you are happy to adapt your process to what the tool(s) provide) Ben
Ben makes an interesting point. 'The imagination of the program chair' what what brought me oh prolly around 500 or so hours of labor over several years. In fact, it was the constant requirements of the reimagining of process of program chairs that forced the move to OJS from a custom system. The idea was that, we can no longer afford to invest in endless customization and specifically the endless re- imagination of the conference and the conference process. We need a fixed model, and OJS was what was supposed to help to enforce that fixedness, but really it doesn't seem to have accomplished that, so perhaps we should resolve the problem more through policy than through getting a new system? the system ojs system does seem to work for many different conferences. On Oct 23, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Ben Anderson wrote:
On 22 Oct 2008, at 18:34, Ingbert Floyd wrote:
I think it would be interesting to see a group discussion of conference system requirements by internet experts.
one such 'requirement' is that the system can support the 'submission/review/response workflow' that the conference organizers want. My experience of the IR9 review process (others may disagree) was that whilst the progamme chair & reviewers had a view of the process they wanted, the system had a slightly different and rather 'fixed' model. This produced a certain amount of confusion.
If the IR10 programme chair/committee's mental model of the submission process is not yet defined then deciding on a tool will be a bit premature...(unless you are happy to adapt your process to what the tool(s) provide)
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Our plan was to have the current conference chair (=chair of the group) work with OCS alongside the incoming group chair/conference chair so expertise and historical memory gets transferred along with training. Our initial experience of OCS suggests that each chair might want to tweak the setup (depending on the complexity of the conference, e.g.) but the basics of OCS would remain the same. So far we've found OCS very powerful (= complex, a drawback), and only occasional not as clear or intuitive as we would like. We're hoping that we can address some of these issues by providing clear instructions on the conference website and perhaps put togeher a simple internal FAQ for program managers. -c On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, jeremy hunsinger wrote:
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:37:08 -0400 From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> Reply-To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Conferencing software for next year
Ben makes an interesting point. 'The imagination of the program chair' what what brought me oh prolly around 500 or so hours of labor over several years. In fact, it was the constant requirements of the reimagining of process of program chairs that forced the move to OJS from a custom system. The idea was that, we can no longer afford to invest in endless customization and specifically the endless re- imagination of the conference and the conference process. We need a fixed model, and OJS was what was supposed to help to enforce that fixedness, but really it doesn't seem to have accomplished that, so perhaps we should resolve the problem more through policy than through getting a new system? the system ojs system does seem to work for many different conferences.
On Oct 23, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Ben Anderson wrote:
On 22 Oct 2008, at 18:34, Ingbert Floyd wrote:
I think it would be interesting to see a group discussion of conference system requirements by internet experts.
one such 'requirement' is that the system can support the 'submission/review/response workflow' that the conference organizers want. My experience of the IR9 review process (others may disagree) was that whilst the progamme chair & reviewers had a view of the process they wanted, the system had a slightly different and rather 'fixed' model. This produced a certain amount of confusion.
If the IR10 programme chair/committee's mental model of the submission process is not yet defined then deciding on a tool will be a bit premature...(unless you are happy to adapt your process to what the tool(s) provide)
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Chris Hodge University of Tennessee
As the program chair for IR 9.0 I have provided some feedback already of course but for the benefit of this wider discussion I would suggest that the difficulties we encountered with OCS were both front-end and back-end. The amount of difficulty faced by those submitting proposals (A lot of email enquiries) suggests that the interface was not very user friendly or intuitive - this may seem unexpected for the more technical minding but I suspect that to the social scientists and HCI people amongst us it is no surprise to learn that academics (even those engaged in researching the internet) are no different from the public at large in using such systems. Despite every effort by colleagues to clarify instructions and provide FAQs these were often misunderstood, ignored or simply irritated people who expected the system to be much easier to use. So I guess their is a user-interface design and policy set of issues to be resolved here. Regarding the back-end of the system the main problem for me was the breakdown in the searchability function which led to hours of paperwork and manual cross referencng to find anyone with a query. This should however be something that can be fixed I would guess. Brian On Oct 23 2008, chodge5@utk.edu wrote:
Our plan was to have the current conference chair (=chair of the group) work with OCS alongside the incoming group chair/conference chair so expertise and historical memory gets transferred along with training. Our initial experience of OCS suggests that each chair might want to tweak the setup (depending on the complexity of the conference, e.g.) but the basics of OCS would remain the same. So far we've found OCS very powerful (= complex, a drawback), and only occasional not as clear or intuitive as we would like. We're hoping that we can address some of these issues by providing clear instructions on the conference website and perhaps put togeher a simple internal FAQ for program managers.
-c
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, jeremy hunsinger wrote:
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:37:08 -0400 From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> Reply-To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Conferencing software for next year
Ben makes an interesting point. 'The imagination of the program chair' what what brought me oh prolly around 500 or so hours of labor over several years. In fact, it was the constant requirements of the reimagining of process of program chairs that forced the move to OJS from a custom system. The idea was that, we can no longer afford to invest in endless customization and specifically the endless re- imagination of the conference and the conference process. We need a fixed model, and OJS was what was supposed to help to enforce that fixedness, but really it doesn't seem to have accomplished that, so perhaps we should resolve the problem more through policy than through getting a new system? the system ojs system does seem to work for many different conferences.
On Oct 23, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Ben Anderson wrote:
On 22 Oct 2008, at 18:34, Ingbert Floyd wrote:
I think it would be interesting to see a group discussion of conference system requirements by internet experts.
one such 'requirement' is that the system can support the 'submission/review/response workflow' that the conference organizers want. My experience of the IR9 review process (others may disagree) was that whilst the progamme chair & reviewers had a view of the process they wanted, the system had a slightly different and rather 'fixed' model. This produced a certain amount of confusion.
If the IR10 programme chair/committee's mental model of the submission process is not yet defined then deciding on a tool will be a bit premature...(unless you are happy to adapt your process to what the tool(s) provide)
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I think Jeremy means OCS (open conference system), which, clearly, is closely aligned with OJS (open journal system). To me, that integration is a meaningful advantage of using OCS, and I concur with Jeremy's insight that this might be more an issue of policy/practice, rather than the technology. -mz -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Associate, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm@uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org On Oct 23, 2008, at 11:37 AM, jeremy hunsinger wrote:
Ben makes an interesting point. 'The imagination of the program chair' what what brought me oh prolly around 500 or so hours of labor over several years. In fact, it was the constant requirements of the reimagining of process of program chairs that forced the move to OJS from a custom system. The idea was that, we can no longer afford to invest in endless customization and specifically the endless re-imagination of the conference and the conference process. We need a fixed model, and OJS was what was supposed to help to enforce that fixedness, but really it doesn't seem to have accomplished that, so perhaps we should resolve the problem more through policy than through getting a new system? the system ojs system does seem to work for many different conferences.
On Oct 23, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Ben Anderson wrote:
On 22 Oct 2008, at 18:34, Ingbert Floyd wrote:
I think it would be interesting to see a group discussion of conference system requirements by internet experts.
one such 'requirement' is that the system can support the 'submission/review/response workflow' that the conference organizers want. My experience of the IR9 review process (others may disagree) was that whilst the progamme chair & reviewers had a view of the process they wanted, the system had a slightly different and rather 'fixed' model. This produced a certain amount of confusion.
If the IR10 programme chair/committee's mental model of the submission process is not yet defined then deciding on a tool will be a bit premature...(unless you are happy to adapt your process to what the tool(s) provide)
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yep, it is all pkp to me:) On Oct 23, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Michael Zimmer wrote:
I think Jeremy means OCS (open conference system), which, clearly, is closely aligned with OJS (open journal system). To me, that integration is a meaningful advantage of using OCS, and I concur with Jeremy's insight that this might be more an issue of policy/ practice, rather than the technology.
-mz
-- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Associate, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm@uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org
On Oct 23, 2008, at 11:37 AM, jeremy hunsinger wrote:
Ben makes an interesting point. 'The imagination of the program chair' what what brought me oh prolly around 500 or so hours of labor over several years. In fact, it was the constant requirements of the reimagining of process of program chairs that forced the move to OJS from a custom system. The idea was that, we can no longer afford to invest in endless customization and specifically the endless re-imagination of the conference and the conference process. We need a fixed model, and OJS was what was supposed to help to enforce that fixedness, but really it doesn't seem to have accomplished that, so perhaps we should resolve the problem more through policy than through getting a new system? the system ojs system does seem to work for many different conferences.
On Oct 23, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Ben Anderson wrote:
On 22 Oct 2008, at 18:34, Ingbert Floyd wrote:
I think it would be interesting to see a group discussion of conference system requirements by internet experts.
one such 'requirement' is that the system can support the 'submission/review/response workflow' that the conference organizers want. My experience of the IR9 review process (others may disagree) was that whilst the progamme chair & reviewers had a view of the process they wanted, the system had a slightly different and rather 'fixed' model. This produced a certain amount of confusion.
If the IR10 programme chair/committee's mental model of the submission process is not yet defined then deciding on a tool will be a bit premature...(unless you are happy to adapt your process to what the tool(s) provide)
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participants (13)
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Alex Halavais -
Ben Anderson -
bl506＠york.ac.uk -
chodge5＠utk.edu -
Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] -
I Kushchu -
Ingbert Floyd -
Ismael Peña-López -
jeremy hunsinger -
Michael Zimmer -
Sonja Utz -
Tobias Escher -
Ulf-Dietrich Reips