Conference Management / Free Software and web applications

This is a list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally. Selfhosting is the process of locally hosting and managing applications instead of renting from SaaS providers. —from github/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted


  • BigBlueButton – Supports real-time sharing of audio, video, slides (with whiteboard controls), chat, and the screen. Instructors can engage remote students with polling, emojis, and breakout rooms. (DemoSource Code) LGPL-3.0 Java
  • Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) – Create conference and event websites built on top of Drupal. (Source Code) GPL-1.0 PHP
  • frab – web-based conference planning and management system. It helps to collect submissions, to manage talks and speakers and to create a schedule. (Source Code) MIT Ruby
  • Open Conference Systems (OCS) – is a free Web publishing tool that will create a complete Web presence for your scholarly conference. (DemoSource Code) GPL-1.0 PHP
  • OpenCFP – OpenCFP is a PHP-based conference talk submission system. MIT PHP
  • OpenConferenceWare – An open source web application for supporting conference-like events. This customizable, general-purpose platform provides proposals, sessions, schedules, tracks, user profiles. (Source Code) MIT Ruby
  • osem – Event management tailored to free Software conferences. (DemoSource Code) MIT Ruby
  • pretalx – Web-based event management, including running a Call for Papers, reviewing submissions, and scheduling talks. Exports and imports for various related tools. (Source Code) Apache-2.0 Python