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Holding repo for things pertaining to the R Conference Management System

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Master check list - Does it meet requirements #1

Closed ZoeLocke closed 6 years ago

ZoeLocke commented 7 years ago

Before dedicating time to test cases confirming the functionality of a given CMS it's worth simply checking it off against the requirements listed here: /wiki/High-level-requirements to ensure they even provide what we need.

Open Conference Systems (OCS)

Software

[x] Open source*
[ ] Actively maintained*
[x] Well documented
[ ] Extensible by proposal participants
[x] Integrates with third party payment providers to avoid PCI-DSS*
[ ] Conferences only incur hosting costs if they run it themselves

Abstract management

[x] Handles abstract submission, with email notification*
[ ] Allows markdown in abstracts
[ ] Allows submitters to edit abstracts
[ ] Abstracts can be assigned to reviewers automatically (e.g. by topic) and/or manually*
[ ] Allows custom review decisions
[ ] Handles special submissions, e.g. scholarship applications

Scheduling

[ ] Tools to create conference schedule*
[ ] Drag-and-drop scheduling
[ ] Conflict management (of topics or people)
[ ] Tools for assigning chairs to sessions
[ ] Tools for chairs to communicate with session participants, regarding slides, schedule changes
[ ] Tools to obtain video recording permission or permission to distribute slides
[ ] Tools for assigning poster slots and identifiers
[ ] Tools for taking room capacities into account

Participant management

[ ] Register participants, including accepting payments*
[ ] Participant accounts to make it easy to participate in multiple conferences
[ ] Ability to email all participants
[ ] Letter generation facility to request visa for international participants
[ ] Personal schedules or integration with services such as Conference4me.

Conference management

[ ] Template for conference website, suitable for different devices, secure and accessible to visually impaired*
[ ] Hosting of presentation slides
[ ] Ability to clone conference for recurring event
[ ] Ability to poll participants on conference issues

Indico

Software

[ ] Open source*
[ ] Actively maintained*
[ ] Well documented
[ ] Extensible by proposal participants
[ ] Integrates with third party payment providers to avoid PCI-DSS*
[ ] Conferences only incur hosting costs if they run it themselves

Abstract management

[ ] Handles abstract submission, with email notification*
[ ] Allows markdown in abstracts
[ ] Allows submitters to edit abstracts
[ ] Abstracts can be assigned to reviewers automatically (e.g. by topic) and/or manually*
[ ] Allows custom review decisions
[ ] Handles special submissions, e.g. scholarship applications

Scheduling

[ ] Tools to create conference schedule*
[ ] Drag-and-drop scheduling
[ ] Conflict management (of topics or people)
[ ] Tools for assigning chairs to sessions
[ ] Tools for chairs to communicate with session participants, regarding slides, schedule changes
[ ] Tools to obtain video recording permission or permission to distribute slides
[ ] Tools for assigning poster slots and identifiers
[ ] Tools for taking room capacities into account

Participant management

[ ] Register participants, including accepting payments*
[ ] Participant accounts to make it easy to participate in multiple conferences
[ ] Ability to email all participants
[ ] Letter generation facility to request visa for international participants
[ ] Personal schedules or integration with services such as Conference4me.

Conference management

[ ] Template for conference website, suitable for different devices, secure and accessible to visually impaired*
[ ] Hosting of presentation slides
[ ] Ability to clone conference for recurring event
[ ] Ability to poll participants on conference issues

frab

Software

[ ] Open source*
[ ] Actively maintained*
[ ] Well documented
[ ] Extensible by proposal participants
[ ] Integrates with third party payment providers to avoid PCI-DSS*
[ ] Conferences only incur hosting costs if they run it themselves

Abstract management

[ ] Handles abstract submission, with email notification*
[ ] Allows markdown in abstracts
[ ] Allows submitters to edit abstracts
[ ] Abstracts can be assigned to reviewers automatically (e.g. by topic) and/or manually*
[ ] Allows custom review decisions
[ ] Handles special submissions, e.g. scholarship applications

Scheduling

[ ] Tools to create conference schedule*
[ ] Drag-and-drop scheduling
[ ] Conflict management (of topics or people)
[ ] Tools for assigning chairs to sessions
[ ] Tools for chairs to communicate with session participants, regarding slides, schedule changes
[ ] Tools to obtain video recording permission or permission to distribute slides
[ ] Tools for assigning poster slots and identifiers
[ ] Tools for taking room capacities into account

Participant management

[ ] Register participants, including accepting payments*
[ ] Participant accounts to make it easy to participate in multiple conferences
[ ] Ability to email all participants
[ ] Letter generation facility to request visa for international participants
[ ] Personal schedules or integration with services such as Conference4me.

Conference management

[ ] Template for conference website, suitable for different devices, secure and accessible to visually impaired*
[ ] Hosting of presentation slides
[ ] Ability to clone conference for recurring event
[ ] Ability to poll participants on conference issues

Open Source Event Manager (osem)

Software

[ ] Open source*
[ ] Actively maintained*
[ ] Well documented
[ ] Extensible by proposal participants
[ ] Integrates with third party payment providers to avoid PCI-DSS*
[ ] Conferences only incur hosting costs if they run it themselves

Abstract management

[ ] Handles abstract submission, with email notification*
[ ] Allows markdown in abstracts
[ ] Allows submitters to edit abstracts
[ ] Abstracts can be assigned to reviewers automatically (e.g. by topic) and/or manually*
[ ] Allows custom review decisions
[ ] Handles special submissions, e.g. scholarship applications

Scheduling

[ ] Tools to create conference schedule*
[ ] Drag-and-drop scheduling
[ ] Conflict management (of topics or people)
[ ] Tools for assigning chairs to sessions
[ ] Tools for chairs to communicate with session participants, regarding slides, schedule changes
[ ] Tools to obtain video recording permission or permission to distribute slides
[ ] Tools for assigning poster slots and identifiers
[ ] Tools for taking room capacities into account

Participant management

[ ] Register participants, including accepting payments*
[ ] Participant accounts to make it easy to participate in multiple conferences
[ ] Ability to email all participants
[ ] Letter generation facility to request visa for international participants
[ ] Personal schedules or integration with services such as Conference4me.

Conference management

[ ] Template for conference website, suitable for different devices, secure and accessible to visually impaired*
[ ] Hosting of presentation slides
[ ] Ability to clone conference for recurring event
[ ] Ability to poll participants on conference issues

ZoeLocke commented 7 years ago

On OCS

OCS was released as a smaller project spun off from their journaling program, OJS. It hasn't been developed further in a long time. They were actually planning on mothballing it, but following a community survey decided to have another go at it. However, it appears that this will be done by building a new edition, that won't be done until 2018. As such, if we go with OCS now, we'll likely be working with an old system, that while still su[pported in general, isn't being actively improved at this time.

OCS appears the be able to handle PayPal, but it doesn't appear to have support for anything else (again, this system is quite old) and the instructions relate to OJS, and so it may be quite awkward.

It's also worth mentioning here that it's pretty ugly, due to its age, and a lot of work would be required to make this look modern and professional to end users.

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