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Jonathan Blackburn wrote: > Don't mean to clutter up the list, but I am on a team that is > considering using Drupal for a conference collaboration site > (including submitting/voting on topics, user profiles, etc.) and > wanted to see what Code4Lib was using both for its journal > submissions/moderation AS WELL AS topic voting. > > If the person managing either of these systems can shoot me an e-mail, > that would be great! > > (Or, if anyone else has created a conference site using Drupal, that > would be wonderful, as well.) > > I haven't seen a Conference management site developed using drupal but for the past few years I've maintained the conference web site for JA-SIG. It was written many years ago at another university and I volunteered to take over the maintenance of the code (I didn't know what I was getting into at the time). While it's mostly functional it is extremely poorly written (some of the ugliest java code I've seen) so when it *doesn't* function as desired it's difficult to figure out what's going on. A couple of months ago I began work on a complete redesign of the system, basically as a g-job. Since my programming skills are strongest in a java environment the new system is being developed in java, using the Spring Framework (I've developed several other sites/applications using Spring). It's being built on top of the Apache Jackrabbit content repository (JSR-170) to manage most of the site content. While it's primarily intended to be used to manage future JA-SIG conferences I'm building it such that it's flexible and can use templates for creating Conference web sites for any other organization as well. It's all being developed using open source software and I hope to make it available as an open source application.