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[Markus Neteler]

Concerning OCS: My good old inbox knows a lot :)

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2007-October/000410.html

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Markus

On Thu, Oct 4, 2007 at 9:33 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
<tmitchell at osgeo.org> wrote:
> Jeff and I tested the basics of the Open Conference System (OCS):
> http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs
>
> Using an installed test instance at:
> http://www.osgeo.org/ocs/
>
> At present you have to register to use it (and there is no linkage to your
> OSGeo user id yet).  It includes most of the basic features you need for
> managing presentation proposals, paper reviews, etc.
>
> I'm not going to make a strong push to use it for 2008 but I definitely
> think this is an area that the international conference committee can help
> streamline events year from year.  I mean, by helping host and manage this
> instance of OCS, so that setting up a website, managing registrations, etc.
> does not all have to be re-invented every year.   It would at least be
> fruitful to mirror some of the previous conference(s) into here to see how
> it works/looks, etc.
>
> The test instance is not fully set up, if someone would like to volunteer to
> get it set up to be more viable, please let me know and I'll promote you.
> As OSGeo grows and other events around the world start happening, this site
> can also serve to handle, promote, archive and those events as well.
>
> Ideas, questions?
>
> Tyler
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