2010-05-17

List of Open Source Conference Management Systems

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:
NameUsed byLicenseProgramming Language
A Conference ToolkitYAPC::EuArtistic LicensePerl
ConManUtah Open Source Conference, Texax Linux FestGPLPython (Django)
Open Conference Systemsvarious academic conferencesGPLPHP
OpenConferenceWareOpen Source BridgeMITRuby on Rails
PentabarfDebConf, FOSDEM, CCCGPLRuby on Rails
SCALEregSCALEGPLPython (Django)
Zookeeprlinux.conf.auGPLPython (Pylons)


If you know of any other Open Source systems, please leave a comment!

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Linux Plumbers Conference used something that worked out really well, and I don't think you have it on your list. I don't happen to know the name of the software though.

Michael Hudson-Doyle said...

There's indico: http://cdsware.cern.ch/indico/index.html

We managed to make it work for EuroPython 2006 or so...

Gunnar said...

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

KatteKrab said...

http://myreview.sourceforge.net/

KatteKrab said...

Cafuego and I are working on a Drupal based system.

Reinhard Tartler said...

http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~kohler/hotcrp/

is used by a number of system conferences.

Max said...

Thank for this list. Could you add this one: conf2py

http://code.google.com/p/conf2py/

thanks

Lisa Rex said...

COD (Conference Organizing Distribution) is built on Drupal 6 (version for 7 is next). See usecod.com for more info.

digisus said...

Hi, great list. I re-added your list to the Wikipedia article after I have seen that -nothing- on that article happened after the deletion one year ago. Let's see...

Anil JHA said...

Well stuff. include CDS Indico http://indico-software.org/