<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div>I just threw up a quick test instance of symposion, mentioned below and it looks pretty promising. I think it's worth contacting Eldarion, especially if we want the ability to do double-blind submissions, which it doesn't seem to have out of the box.<div><br></div><div>On the other hand, maybe the OJS system they used for 2013 can be expanded for 2014?<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>d.</div><div><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Barry Rowlingson <<a href="mailto:b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk">b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Re: [OSGeo-Conf] Conference software</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">September 25, 2013 03:29:52 PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"<a href="mailto:conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org">conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org">conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div>[I've now subscribed to Conference-dev so apologies if you got this already]<br><br>On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:32 AM, <a href="mailto:b.j.kobben@utwente.nl">b.j.kobben@utwente.nl</a><br><<a href="mailto:b.j.kobben@utwente.nl">b.j.kobben@utwente.nl</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">For the FOSS4g2013 conference we used two separate systems: WordPress for<br>the main conference site and the presentation and workshops tracks, and<br>OJS (Open Journal System) [<a href="http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/">http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/</a>] for the Academic Track<br>(AT).<br></blockquote><br> Actually we used three or more separate systems!<br><br> OJS for the Academic track submissions and refereeing (these were<br>peer-reviewed by a selected panel, so needed the OJS workflow).<br><br> WordPress for the main 'pages' (because this is what Barry K was<br>familiar with, and he kickstarted the web pages)<br><br> The RegOnline service for conference registration and payment<br>(because that's what our AGI staff use)<br><br> Django for database-driven stuff - the presentation timetable,<br>presenters, locations etc all in a system based partly on the code<br>developed for pyconde (because I love Django).<br><br> If we'd started with Django/pyconde then we would not have needed<br>WordPress since it includes Django CMS which can build a tree of<br>templated pages in the same way as WordPress.<br><br> The pyconde code and my fork are on github. My fork also includes the<br>pledge pages, the map gallery code and the custom stuff I did for the<br>timetable.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">The OJS we used for the AT is installed on<br>the OSGEO servers, and also used by the OSGEO Journal.<br></blockquote><br> No its not! We didn't use any OSGeo servers at all - *everything*<br>(WP, MySQL, Django, OJS) ran on a *single* Amazon instance (I think it<br>was a "medium" instance, the "small" one kept killing MySQL).<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">We found out that the german linux day, Linuxtag [3], is facing the<br>similar problems. Our recent plans are, to enhance Frab [4] to fit our<br>needs during the next years.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br> I really only looked at Python-based solutions since that's my<br>skillset, so I can't comment on the suitability of Ruby or PHP based<br>solutions.<br><br> If you want the problem taken off your hands, then I suggest you get<br>the Eldarion guys to set up a Symposion-based solution for you. Its an<br>open-source (python/django) system that they can host for you and will<br>do custom work for a price. Or you can run Symposion yourself and fix<br>it up as you want, or pay Eldarion (or anyone else) to do custom<br>stuff.<br><br> If we'd not already had to use RegOnline for registrations/payment<br>and WP for the web pages I would have urged the committee to throw<br>some money at Eldarion.<br><br> I'm happy to share Google Analytics if anyone wants to know what the<br>server load was.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Conference_dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>