[Air-L] Conferencing software for next year

[Michael Zimmer]

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

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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)
>>
>> Ben
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