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Yeah, I did hear from someone at the C4L journal and I doubt WP will be an option for what we want. Open conference systems is definitely an option, though, but I have not really looked at it much just yet. Drupal is probably going to be the most work to set up, but of course, it provides a lot of flexibility. We'll just have to dig around a bit more and see what happens. Thanks for everyone's help, though. -Jon On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Ross Singer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Jon, > > The conference and the journal are run fairly differently (did anybody > from the journal get back to you?). The journal's actually organized > (from what I can tell). It uses WordPress > > The conference, on the other hand, uses a crazy mish-mash of things > that changes from year to year. CfPs are handled by email (which I > would really like to see changed this year, since invariably one or > two gets lost and they're formatted all crazily differently). These > are then put into a custom voting "machine" (the first year it was a > Backpack page and a bookmarklet, last year a standalone RoR > application) and the voting is open for a period of time. We haven't, > to date, used the Drupal voting module (although it comes up every > year) because nobody has gotten it to work satisfactorily for > presentations. > > The voting applications, I might add, haven't been without their share > of criticism. > > At some point, I think a dedicated 'conference application' is > necessary for Code4lib, something that can take submissions, vote on > them, build the conference schedule and host the videos, as well as > deal with delegates and whatnot. Last year's voting booth (nicknamed > ConferenceKeeper) was designed to do this sort of work, but it really > needs some sort of official blessing or alternative. > > Speaking of alternatives, have you looked at Open Conference System: > http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ocs > ? > > Good luck, > -Ross. > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Jonathan Blackburn <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> 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. >>> >> >