[foss4g2014] conference software

[Eli Adam]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Darrell Fuhriman <darrell at garnix.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

This thread has two parts: general conference software and a subtopic
of Academic Track software.  For the main conference software I have
no real opinions as of yet (other than that it should not necessarily
encompass the AT software).

>
> On the other hand, maybe the OJS system they used for 2013 can be expanded
> for 2014?

OSGeo runs one instance of OJS which has about 10 Journal volumes in
it already, http://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal  We could build
on that or the 2013 instance (if the infrastructure is going to
continue).  The Academic Track seems to be working well on OJS with a
continuing team from several years.  I'm interested in comments about
suggested OJS tweaks from Barend and F-J Behr.  So far it sounds like
OJS is working very well for the AT.  I favor deferring to Percy and
the rest of the Academic Committee members on this unless there is
some compelling reason that the AT must/should be using the same
system as the rest of the conference.

Eli


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> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Conf] Conference software
> Date: September 25, 2013 03:29:52 PDT
> To: "conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org" <conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org>
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> [I've now subscribed to Conference-dev so apologies if you got this already]
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> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:32 AM, b.j.kobben at utwente.nl
> <b.j.kobben at utwente.nl> wrote:
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> 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).
>
>
> Actually we used three or more separate systems!
>
> OJS for the Academic track submissions and refereeing (these were
> peer-reviewed by a selected panel, so needed the OJS workflow).
>
> WordPress for the main 'pages' (because this is what Barry K was
> familiar with, and he kickstarted the web pages)
>
> The RegOnline service for conference registration and payment
> (because that's what our AGI staff use)
>
> Django for database-driven stuff - the presentation timetable,
> presenters, locations etc all in a system based partly on the code
> developed for pyconde (because I love Django).
>
> If we'd started with Django/pyconde then we would not have needed
> WordPress since it includes Django CMS which can build a tree of
> templated pages in the same way as WordPress.
>
> The pyconde code and my fork are on github. My fork also includes the
> pledge pages, the map gallery code and the custom stuff I did for the
> timetable.
>
> The OJS we used for the AT is installed on
> the OSGEO servers, and also used by the OSGEO Journal.
>
>
> No its not! We didn't use any OSGeo servers at all - *everything*
> (WP, MySQL, Django, OJS) ran on a *single* Amazon instance (I think it
> was a "medium" instance, the "small" one kept killing MySQL).
>
> 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.
>
>
> I really only looked at Python-based solutions since that's my
> skillset, so I can't comment on the suitability of Ruby or PHP based
> solutions.
>
> If you want the problem taken off your hands, then I suggest you get
> the Eldarion guys to set up a Symposion-based solution for you. Its an
> open-source (python/django) system that they can host for you and will
> do custom work for a price. Or you can run Symposion yourself and fix
> it up as you want, or pay Eldarion (or anyone else) to do custom
> stuff.
>
> If we'd not already had to use RegOnline for registrations/payment
> and WP for the web pages I would have urged the committee to throw
> some money at Eldarion.
>
> I'm happy to share Google Analytics if anyone wants to know what the
> server load was.
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