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.