Developing Conference
Management Software:
Functionality Review by Example of
the LVEE Engine
Dubitski A.V.
Brest State Technical University
CERES. Centers of Excellence for young RESearchers
(Reg.no. 544137-TEMPUS-1-2013-SK-JPHES)
Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine, 21-26 September 2016
summer school “Modern trends in Young Education”

Typical Functions of a
Conference Management System

Email Notifications

Registration Management

Schedule Management

Publication Support

User Blogs

User Profiles

Accepting Payments and etc.

Conference management systems

LVEE Engine

LVEE Engine Functions

Registration of Participants Management

Content Management

Abstracts Management

Wiki Edit

Email Notifications and etc.

Editors RSS
channel
subscription
Approvement
receive
Abstracts
creation
Communication
with reviewers
Filling
participation
form
Badge editing
Edit/translate
content/news
Account
registration
Conference
subscription
Adding
abstracts
to content
Commenting
abstracts
Conferences
creation
News
publishing
Working
with wiki
Registration
opening
Approving
participation
requests
Working with
e-mail robot
Visual theme
editing
Menu
editing
«user» role «editor» role «admin» role
«reviewer» sub-role
Languages
addition
Working
with participants
database
Placing
partners
attribution
Files upload
Timer-
scheduled
execution
content
(textile)
Web form
e-mail
Special
marks:

Registration
The process of registration consists of several steps:

Creating user's profile

Сomplete an application form for the conference

Add his abstracts (an option)

Approval of a user's application form (an option)

Filling in additional fields of the form

Badge editing

User roles

None

Unprivileged user

Editor

Has permissions to edit/translate web site content

Reviewer

Participant of the abstracts peer-review

Admin

A lot of additional capabilities

Editing content

Abstracts Editing

Why was Ruby on Rails chosen?

High speed development

Patterns

Code reuse

Acceptable quality code

Thank you for your attention!
Site of conference:
https://lvee.org/
Github repository:
https://github.com/lvee/lvee-engine/