[Air-L] Conferencing software for next year

[Tobias Escher]

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
> 
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> Van: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org
> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org]Namens fred at bytesforall.org
> Verzonden: woensdag 22 oktober 2008 20:49
> Aan: air-l at 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=4
> 
> 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 at 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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