OCS Roadmap

Development Roadmap

Milestone 3.0 (Current - Q4 2009)

PKP Framework

• Development of a common framework for all PKP software.
• See Modularization of PKP Systems for details.

Milestone 2.3 (Current - Q4 2008)

• Timeline refinements
• Registration refinements
• Enable Session Types to be identified
• Title Browse list refinements

Proposed for Future Release

• UI refactoring, most likely congruent with the proposed common framework development. See bug 2848 for one example, although this is a much larger issue than just buttons.

• We need to provide some way to mass e-mail ACCEPTED authors only. Right now, the only option is to e-mail all authors, which becomes awkward about halfway through the management process of the conference (repeatedly needing to find and de-select the rejected authors).

• When a user logs in with NO role, some kind of useful message should be displayed. For example:

Would you like to:

[] Submit a proposal
[] Register as a conference reviewer
[] Register to attend the conference

This would help cut down on the many questions around this issue.

• Ability for the Director to rapidly assign papers to reviewers. For example, from the list of papers, make it possible to check off a group of papers and press an "Assign to Reviewer" option, which would pull up a list of Reviewers. Select one, hit Go and that would be it.

• Incomplete submissions should not go to the "unassigned" queue.

• Ability to export abstracts, user data, etc. into a tab delimited and/or XML format for manipulation outside of OCS.

• On the conference timeline, it is possible to close author registrations while submissions are still open. That should remain possible, but some kind of warning prompt would be ideal: "Do you really want to close author registration before the submissions are closed? Y/N".

• Add a "sent mail" email log for the CM.

• Support for panel submissions.

• Export list of unpaid registrants.

• Add a warning on the final stage of the submission process indicating that by clicking on the button the submission will be complete.

• . Allow authors to re-submit (if directed by the Director to do so) after submission deadline has passed.

• Make Blind Reviews optional, allowing Conference Managers to decide whether or not to include author information in the Submission Metadata, visible to the Reviewer.

• Add support for full bilingualism - interface and content

• When a registrant pays, have the system generate an email receipt.

• Add flexibility to include multiple options for the type of presentation being proposed.

• Add flexibility to include more personal information from authors (e.g., title/rank/status of the individual, such as professor, student, professional, etc.)

• Ability to set up as a single, one-off conference site

• Allow Conference Manager and Director role to be merged for a simpler option

• Add some kind of a link back to the main site, in addition to the HOME button, which links back to the Conference home

• Add a "review-lite" workflow option that simplifies/reduces the peer-review aspects and allows conference directors to focus on using

OCS as an access, scheduling, and general logistical tool for their conference.

• Add a "collaborative review" workflow, where selected reviewers receive all submissions

• Allow Directors/Track Directors to assign themselves ("Assign Self") as the Reviewer for a submission within Director interface

• Reword "path" in setup (not an absolute path, but an abbreviation). Perhaps the abbreviation should just be used by default.

• Add a budgeting module, which would allow conference managers to track conference expenses and generate cost reports.