Conference Management systems are web applications designed to make the lives of conference organisers easier. They usually include features such as registration, payment, paper submission and review, scheduling and publishing of announcements.
Since Wikipedia is apparently not a place for such a "spammy list," I figured I should at least post this here:
| Name | Used by | License | Programming Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Conference Toolkit | YAPC::Eu | Artistic License | Perl |
| ConMan | Utah Open Source Conference, Texas Linux Fest | GPL | Python (Django) |
| Frab | FrOSCon | Permissive | Ruby on Rails |
| Open Conference Systems | various academic conferences | GPL | PHP |
| OpenConferenceWare | Open Source Bridge | MIT | Ruby on Rails |
| Pentabarf | DebConf, FOSDEM, CCC | GPL | Ruby on Rails |
| SCALEreg | SCALE | GPL | Python (Django) |
| Summit | Canonical | AGPL | Python (Django) |
| Zookeepr | linux.conf.au | GPL | Python (Pylons) |
If you know of any other Open Source systems, please leave a comment!
There's indico: http://cdsware.cern.ch/indico/index.html
We managed to make it work for EuroPython 2006 or so...
I started in 2003 to write «Comas», originally as an Apache (mod_perl) module. After some four years, aiming at a much higher flexibility regarding the database schema, I rewrote it in Ruby on Rails.
I have not done any real promotion to Comas — I know I use it on all of my Institute's activities, and know of a couple of South American conferences that have used it. My main reason for not doing any promotion is that –because of lack of time, and because my Institute's needs are covered without this module– the submission rating and scheduling interface are still non-existant — Although they are planned and should see the light soon!
The project's website is http://www.comas-code.org/, and the git repository can be cloned at git://github.com/gwolf/comas.git
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~kohler/hotcrp/
is used by a number of system conferences.
Thank for this list. Could you add this one: conf2py
http://code.google.com/p/conf2py/
thanks
http://yuba.ch/u5cms u5CMS Open Source Conference Management System with Review Process Used bei GMA, ISLS, SPSIM