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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. >