John,

This is really good to know - thanks for the info!

The committee I am on needs to make a decision pronto so I don't think
we can wait, but I would be interested in taking a look regardless as
you near completion.

Thanks,
Jon

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:40 PM, John Fereira <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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.
>