papers

What is it ?

papers is a conference system, featuring:

• submissions of lecture proposals
• judgement of the lecture proposals
• addition of invited/sponsors/etc (not submitted) lectures
• multiple tracks
• publishing of conference program

Although it may be useful to several conferences, papers currently has some parts in portuguese. If would like to use papers, please contact the development team so we can join efforts in improving papers.

Currently we consider papers a proof-of-concept implementation, and intend to rewrite it using Ruby and Rails. The current version in PHP will be updated only while we don't have enough time to do the rewrite.

How can I use it ?

We plan to release properly packaged versions as soon as we think it's worth. Until there, you can check our tagged versions under the tags subdirectory:

https://svn.softwarelivre.org/svn/papers/tags/

The last one is the latest one. To download it, copy the URL from the above address and:

$ svn export https://svn.softwarelivre.org/svn/papers/VERSAO/ papers

The INSTAL file lists requirements and steps for installation.

If you want to contribute (or want to use the development version):

$ svn checkout https://svn.softwarelivre.org/svn/papers/trunk/ papers

License

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How can I help ?

Keep in touch with the development team. At a first glance, we can indicate some stuff that you could improve if you want to help:

• papers' "internationalization" sucks. Suggestion: migrate it to smarty-gettext (at least)

Notas:

• You are currently in the Papers web. The color code for this web is this background, so you know where you are.
• If you are not familiar with the TWiki-SL collaboration platform, please visit WelcomeGuest first.