[foss4g2014] Fwd: [OSGeo-Conf] Conference software

[Darrell Fuhriman]

In case this got lost. Barend (co-chair Nottingham AT) is offering to manage the OJS install for the academic track.

There's probably no reason not to continue on with that.

Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> ran the OJS install on an amazon instance (along with other stuff). Presumably that's still going and we could just take it over.

d.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: <b.j.kobben at utwente.nl>
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Conf] Conference software
> Date: September 25, 2013 2:32:27 AM PDT
> To: <jsanz at osgeo.org>, <marco.lechner at fossgis.de>
> Cc: conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org, eadam at co.lincoln.or.us, b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> For the FOSS4g2013 conference we used two separate systems: WordPress for
> the main conference site and the presentation and workshops tracks, and
> OJS (Open Journal System) [http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/] for the Academic Track
> (AT). 
> 
> I can't speak for the Wordpress site, that has been done mostly by Barry
> Rowlingson and Jo Cook (cc-d). The OJS we used for the AT is installed on
> the OSGEO servers, and also used by the OSGEO Journal. The AT chairs (F-J
> Behr and myself) experienced OJS as well suited for that particular task,
> for a next conference we'd probably want to tweak it a bit further, but in
> general it served us well.
> 
> Dating back from the ICA-OSGEO MoU the idea was to consolidate the
> Academic Track (starting at the ill-fated Beijing conference). I
> volunteered for that at the time and carried that over to Nottingham. I'd
> suggest that to keep this going, the Portland team sh/could continue using
> the same systems, and I am volunteering to coordinate the effort with the
> Portland LOC (I understand that Eli Adam would be their AT person).
> 
> Yours,
> --
> Barend Köbben 
> ITC - University of Twente
> PO Box 217, 7500AE Enschede (The Netherlands)
> +31-(0)53 4874 253
> @barendkobben
> 
> 
> 
> On 25-09-13 10:33, "Jorge Sanz" <jsanz at osgeo.org> wrote:
> 
>> 2013/9/23 Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. <marco.lechner at fossgis.de>:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> the german-speaking OSGeo local chapter D-A-CH announced that it plans
>>> to bid for hosting the FOSS4G 2016.
>>> Anyway, after years of running the annual FOSSGIS conference (about 400
>>> delegates/year), we are unhappy with our software solution assisting our
>>> orga-team. Right now we are using a combination of pentabarf [1] (for
>>> managing paper ssubmission, review and planing of the program) and
>>> CiviCRM [2] on Drupal (for registration, billing and payment). This does
>>> not fit our needs and produces too much additional work to be done to
>>> fullfill our requirements.
>>> We found out that the german linux day, Linuxtag [3], is facing the
>>> similar problems. Our recent plans are, to enhance Frab [4] to fit our
>>> needs during the next years.
>>> May be it is also interesting for organising FOSS4G conferences and
>>> anybody wants to participate. Any commends welcome.
>>> 
>>> Best regards - and thank you all for the great elapsed conference in
>>> Nottingham
>>> 
>>> Marco
>>> FOSSGIS e.V. / OSGeo lc D-A-CH
>>> 
>>> [1] http://pentabarf.org
>>> [2] http://civicrm.org/
>>> [3] http://www.linuxtag.org
>>> [4] http://frab.github.io/frab
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Marco,
>> 
>> Maybe Drupal is not the path you want to follow but they have a
>> distribution specially focused on conferences called COD. I don't have
>> experience with this drupal profile, it's just what I know they use
>> for their confs.
>> 
>> Best
>> 
>> http://usecod.com/
>> https://drupal.org/documentation/build/cod
>> https://drupal.org/project/cod_support
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Jorge Sanz
>> http://www.osgeo.org
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz
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