SlickChair

SlickChair is an open-source conference management system written in Scala. Built with the Play framework and the Slick database access library, SlickChair provides a highly flexible and extensible solution to manage a peer review process. More information on the project report.

What Makes It Different?

• Simple authentication. SlickChair allows to login in one click using a Facebook or Google account in addition to the traditional email and password authentication. We made thing very simple here: one user equals one email!

• Extensible workflow. By default, the peer review process is organised in seven phases: Setup, Submission, Bidding, Assignment, Review, Notification and Finished. Workflow customisation such as adding an Abstract Submission phase or merging Submission and Bidding are very easy to make.

• Full control over your data. SlickChair instances are completely autonomous, which means that you get the option to deploy yours on a local server with a private database.

Show Me A Demo!

Running the demo locally requires JDK 6+ and sbt. Then it's as simple as:

sbt run

Deploying in production

This section describes the steps required to deploy SlickChair production in on Heroku. All configuration must be stored in conf/prod.conf.

First create a new Google account (mandatory, the password is stored in the config file), and new Facebook/Heroku accounts if necessary:

• https://accounts.google.com/SignUp?service=mail
• https://www.facebook.com/r.php
• https://id.heroku.com/login

Enter the new Google credential in conf/prod.conf under smtp.

Change application.secret to a randomly generated string; this command can be used to generate one:

• tr -cd '[:alnum:]' < /dev/urandom | head -c64

Register your instance to login with Facebook accounts:

• https://developers.facebook.com/
• Apps; Register as Developer; pass the phone validation
• Apps; Create a New App
• Settings; Basic; Provide a "Contact Email"
• Settings; Advanced; Set "Valid OAuth redirect URIs" to http://your-url/authenticate/facebook
• Status & Review; enable "make this app available to the general public?"
• Dashboard; Copy "App ID" and "App Secret" to securesocial.facebook.clientId/clientSecret

Register your instance to login with Google accounts:

• https://console.developers.google.com
• "create project"; open it
• APIs & auth; Credentials; "create new client id"
• Set "authorized redirect URI" to http://your-url/authenticate/google
• Copy "Client ID" and "Client secret" to securesocial.google.clientId/clientSecret
• https://accounts.google.com/
• click /!\ next to Phone; Verify number now; verify now

Deploy to Heroku:

• Install https://toolbelt.heroku.com/
• git commit -am Configured
• heroku login
• heroku create
• git push heroku master
• heroku open