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Virtual Conference Management System #34

Open duerrsimon opened 3 years ago

duerrsimon commented 3 years ago

Project Lead: @duerrsimon

Mentor: @ealescak

Welcome to OLS-3! This issue will be used to track your project and progress during the program. Please use this checklist over the next few weeks as you start Open Life Science program :tada:.


Week 1 (week starting 8 February 2021): Meet your mentor!

Before Week 2 (week starting 15 February 2021): Cohort Call (Welcome to Open Life Science!)

Before Week 3 (week starting 22 February 2021): Meet your mentor!

Before Week 4 (week starting 1 March 2021): Cohort Call (Tooling and roadmapping for Open projects)

Week 5 and later

This issue is here to help you keep track of work as you start Open Life Science program. Please refer to the OLS-3 Syllabus for more detailed weekly notes and assignments past week 4.

duerrsimon commented 3 years ago

Open Canvas https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sAXUcyB1YXJ5RErMrzX3QwInGShI4c66wtevYRofY84/edit?usp=sharing

duerrsimon commented 3 years ago

Vision Statement

Virtual conferences are difficult to organize and there are no FOSS tools to host such events that come with virtual poster sessions, scheduling etc. Existing FOSS tools only partially offer the full features required to host a virtual conference in a single location or are geared towards expert users or very large events. In addition, there is tremendous unexploited potential for virtual conferences as they allow a transparent record of talks and posters presented (via ORCID integration and archiving with a proper DOI e.g on Zenodo) which no commercial provider offers so far. In addition, it would be possible to move away from static 2D images and make interactive posters with videos, 3D WebGL animations, gifs or even interactive code (see an example).

The Virtual Conference Management software (VCMS) aims to make it easier for researchers to set up a virtual conference with little requirements in terms of server or programming knowledge and handles everything from sign up, scheduling, hosting of posters, timezone conversion, easy sign-up via ORCID and long term archiving on zenodo. This will make it possible even for small meetings e.g in the life science community to quickly host virtual one or multi-day events and archive them easily according to FAIR standards with little effort.

A demo can be viewed here: https://vcms.simonduerr.eu/

duerrsimon commented 3 years ago

Roadmap:

JMMaok commented 3 years ago

Vision Statement ...

The Virtual Conference Management software (VCMS) aims to make it easier for researchers to set up a virtual conference with little requirements in terms of server or programming knowledge and handles everything from sign up, scheduling, hosting of posters, timezone conversion, easy sign-up via ORCID and long term archiving on zenodo. This will make it possible even for small meetings e.g in the life science community to quickly host virtual one or multi-day events and archive them easily according to FAIR standards with little effort.

Simon, this is a very interesting mission. It will be nice to have more options for virtual conferences!

open-phytoliths-admin commented 3 years ago

Vision Statement

Virtual conferences are difficult to organize and there are no FOSS tools to host such events that come with virtual poster sessions, scheduling etc. Existing FOSS tools only partially offer the full features required to host a virtual conference in a single location or are geared towards expert users or very large events. In addition, there is tremendous unexploited potential for virtual conferences as they allow a transparent record of talks and posters presented (via ORCID integration and archiving with a proper DOI e.g on Zenodo) which no commercial provider offers so far. In addition, it would be possible to move away from static 2D images and make interactive posters with videos, 3D WebGL animations, gifs or even interactive code (see an example).

The Virtual Conference Management software (VCMS) aims to make it easier for researchers to set up a virtual conference with little requirements in terms of server or programming knowledge and handles everything from sign up, scheduling, hosting of posters, timezone conversion, easy sign-up via ORCID and long term archiving on zenodo. This will make it possible even for small meetings e.g in the life science community to quickly host virtual one or multi-day events and archive them easily according to FAIR standards with little effort.

A demo can be viewed here: https://vcms.simonduerr.eu/

This is a great project! I have been very skeptical of virtual online conferences though I see their potential benefits. This project seems to address many common concerns about virtual conferences.

shmuhammadd commented 3 years ago

Vision Statement

Virtual conferences are difficult to organize and there are no FOSS tools to host such events that come with virtual poster sessions, scheduling etc. Existing FOSS tools only partially offer the full features required to host a virtual conference in a single location or are geared towards expert users or very large events. In addition, there is tremendous unexploited potential for virtual conferences as they allow a transparent record of talks and posters presented (via ORCID integration and archiving with a proper DOI e.g on Zenodo) which no commercial provider offers so far. In addition, it would be possible to move away from static 2D images and make interactive posters with videos, 3D WebGL animations, gifs or even interactive code (see an example).

The Virtual Conference Management software (VCMS) aims to make it easier for researchers to set up a virtual conference with little requirements in terms of server or programming knowledge and handles everything from sign up, scheduling, hosting of posters, timezone conversion, easy sign-up via ORCID and long term archiving on zenodo. This will make it possible even for small meetings e.g in the life science community to quickly host virtual one or multi-day events and archive them easily according to FAIR standards with little effort.

A demo can be viewed here: https://vcms.simonduerr.eu/

This is a wonderful project. I would love to use it one day.

ejlawrence144 commented 3 years ago

This sounds very useful! I organised an online conference last year

ejlawrence144 commented 3 years ago

Open Canvas https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sAXUcyB1YXJ5RErMrzX3QwInGShI4c66wtevYRofY84/edit?usp=sharing

This sounds really good - think about adding events organisers (like me!) to one of your contributors/user groups

cemonks commented 3 years ago

Open Canvas https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sAXUcyB1YXJ5RErMrzX3QwInGShI4c66wtevYRofY84/edit?usp=sharing

This looks very interesting! I organised an online conference late last year, and I have to say that the online poster session - while a challenge - was a big success and will be something we look at retaining in the future even when we return to in-person conferences. I wonder if you could look at creating DOIs for virtual conference books/abstracts/posters as a way of 'value-adding'? I know I'm not the only researcher who retains conference abstract books for future reference, and the fully-digital version of our conference frustrated me a little in that aspect.

duerrsimon commented 3 years ago

Hi @cemonks Yep. I still got to implement this but the plan is that the conference can be archived on zenodo with one click. All posters then get a DOI from Zenodo and are archived even if the website goes offline at some point. All posters are collected in a Zenodo Community - kind of a virtual conference book with all the posters and abstracts + metadata :)

prakritikarki commented 3 years ago

Vision Statement

Virtual conferences are difficult to organize and there are no FOSS tools to host such events that come with virtual poster sessions, scheduling etc. Existing FOSS tools only partially offer the full features required to host a virtual conference in a single location or are geared towards expert users or very large events. In addition, there is tremendous unexploited potential for virtual conferences as they allow a transparent record of talks and posters presented (via ORCID integration and archiving with a proper DOI e.g on Zenodo) which no commercial provider offers so far. In addition, it would be possible to move away from static 2D images and make interactive posters with videos, 3D WebGL animations, gifs or even interactive code (see an example).

The Virtual Conference Management software (VCMS) aims to make it easier for researchers to set up a virtual conference with little requirements in terms of server or programming knowledge and handles everything from sign up, scheduling, hosting of posters, timezone conversion, easy sign-up via ORCID and long term archiving on zenodo. This will make it possible even for small meetings e.g in the life science community to quickly host virtual one or multi-day events and archive them easily according to FAIR standards with little effort.

A demo can be viewed here: https://vcms.simonduerr.eu/

prakritikarki commented 3 years ago

Vision Statement

Virtual conferences are difficult to organize and there are no FOSS tools to host such events that come with virtual poster sessions, scheduling etc. Existing FOSS tools only partially offer the full features required to host a virtual conference in a single location or are geared towards expert users or very large events. In addition, there is tremendous unexploited potential for virtual conferences as they allow a transparent record of talks and posters presented (via ORCID integration and archiving with a proper DOI e.g on Zenodo) which no commercial provider offers so far. In addition, it would be possible to move away from static 2D images and make interactive posters with videos, 3D WebGL animations, gifs or even interactive code (see an example).

The Virtual Conference Management software (VCMS) aims to make it easier for researchers to set up a virtual conference with little requirements in terms of server or programming knowledge and handles everything from sign up, scheduling, hosting of posters, timezone conversion, easy sign-up via ORCID and long term archiving on zenodo. This will make it possible even for small meetings e.g in the life science community to quickly host virtual one or multi-day events and archive them easily according to FAIR standards with little effort.

A demo can be viewed here: https://vcms.simonduerr.eu/

Looks cool idea , it could be important for my project too. Would be glad to collaborate.