ConfTool is a conference management system that helps users register participants, submit and review contributions, and schedule the conference program. Non-commercial events with less than 150 participants can request a free license. The paid ConfTool Pro version includes additional features like bidding for reviews, assignment to reviewers based on biddings and topics, paper downloading by reviewers, bulk mailing, and data export.

Open Conference Systems (OCS) is a free Web publishing tool that can create a complete Web presence for scholarly conferences. It is a highly flexible management and publishing system that can be downloaded for free and installed on a local Web server. It has been designed to reduce the time and energy devoted to the clerical and managerial tasks associated with managing a conference, while improving the record-keeping and efficiency of editorial processes. It seeks to improve the scholarly and public quality of conference publishing through a number of innovation, from making policies more transparent to improving indexing.

Features:

- create a conference Web site

- Manage conferences that occur more than once (e.g., yearly)

- compose and send a call for papers

- electronically accept paper and abstract submissions

- allow paper submitters to edit their work

- Conduct peer reviews

- post conference proceedings and papers in a searchable format

- Schedule a Conference

- post the original data sets

- register participants, including accepting payments

- integrate post-conference online discussions

- utilize an e-mail template system

- support multiple languages with localization files

- Take advantage of more customizable, scalable and secure code

System Requirements:

A server environment meeting the following requirements is recommended:

- PHP >= 4.2.x (including PHP 5.x); Microsoft IIS requires PHP 5.x

- MySQL >= 3.23.23 (including MySQL 4.x) or PostgreSQL >= 7.1 (including

- PostgreSQL 8.x)

- Apache >= 1.3.2x or >= 2.0.4x or Microsoft IIS 6

Operating system: Any OS that supports the above software, including

Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows