HotCRP is conference management software: it accepts paper submissions and manages the review process. Many conference management packages are available nowadays, including START/Softconf, Linklings, EasyChair, and Dirk Grunwald's original CRP. (I haven't used Conferencereview.com or Continue.) HotCRP is better than the original CRP. Relative to the others, as of early 2007 it is easier for PC members to navigate from paper to paper and to search for papers in HotCRP, but START's single-page paper submission form is easier than HotCRP's paper submission process (HotCRP includes an email validation step). If you don't like HotCRP try START. Linklings is not in the same class.
HotCRP is open source and requires that you run your own server,
although the initial setup process is quite easy and should take about 15
minutes on a modern Linux or BSD box. Software requirements: Apache, PHP
version 5 or higher, and MySQL version 5 or higher, plus several PHP
packages. The
README
for the latest release has more.
HotCRP was written for the HotNets V workshop in 2006, and used thereafter for USENIX 2007, SIGCOMM 2007, SOSP 2007, and SOSP 2009, among many others. It is based on Dirk Grunwald's CRP but is mostly rewritten by now.
Git repository
git clone git://read.cs.ucla.edu/git/hotcrp LOCALDIR
Gitweb source code browsing
Anonymous CVS
Command: cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@read.cs.ucla.edu:22401/git/hotcrp co -d LOCALDIR master
Download hotcrp-2.44.tar.gz (released 8.Feb.2011, 496014 bytes)
Release News
Upgrading from an old version of HotCRP is easy; just copy the
new files over the old ones. (Using GNU tar, try “cd
HOTCRPDIR; tar --strip=1 -xzf
/tmp/hotcrp-VERSION.tar.gz”.)
+– Download old releasesDownload old releases
hotcrp-2.43.tar.gz 3.Jan.2011 493359 bytes hotcrp-2.42.tar.gz 2.Jan.2011 493149 bytes hotcrp-2.41.tar.gz 13.Dec.2010 492792 bytes hotcrp-2.40.tar.gz 30.Jul.2010 481941 bytes hotcrp-2.39.tar.gz 20.May.2010 479410 bytes hotcrp-2.38.tar.gz 27.Jan.2010 477877 bytes hotcrp-2.37.tar.gz 19.Dec.2009 474159 bytes hotcrp-2.36.tar.gz 17.Dec.2009 471686 bytes hotcrp-2.35.tar.gz 7.Oct.2009 456927 bytes hotcrp-2.34.tar.gz 21.Mar.2009 446899 bytes hotcrp-2.33.tar.gz 15.Feb.2009 443094 bytes hotcrp-2.32.tar.gz 15.Feb.2009 443067 bytes hotcrp-2.31.tar.gz 26.Jan.2009 442422 bytes hotcrp-2.30.tar.gz 7.Jan.2009 438635 bytes hotcrp-2.29.tar.gz 1.Jan.2009 438296 bytes hotcrp-2.28.tar.gz 20.Dec.2008 438207 bytes hotcrp-2.27.tar.gz 16.Dec.2008 437990 bytes hotcrp-2.26.tar.gz 27.Oct.2008 421965 bytes hotcrp-2.25.tar.gz 22.Sep.2008 416134 bytes hotcrp-2.24.tar.gz 22.Aug.2008 408755 bytes hotcrp-2.23.tar.gz 22.Jul.2008 365666 bytes hotcrp-2.22.tar.gz 15.Jul.2008 365695 bytes hotcrp-2.21.tar.gz 11.May.2008 362439 bytes hotcrp-2.20.tar.gz 11.May.2008 362933 bytes hotcrp-2.19.tar.gz 6.May.2008 362395 bytes hotcrp-2.18.tar.gz 5.May.2008 361569 bytes hotcrp-2.17.tar.gz 23.Apr.2008 355392 bytes hotcrp-2.16.tar.gz 21.Apr.2008 351750 bytes hotcrp-2.15.tar.gz 9.Apr.2008 348128 bytes hotcrp-2.14.tar.gz 12.Mar.2008 345382 bytes hotcrp-2.13.tar.gz 22.Jan.2008 328407 bytes hotcrp-2.12.tar.gz 30.Dec.2007 300022 bytes hotcrp-2.11.tar.gz 27.Oct.2007 296059 bytes hotcrp-2.10.tar.gz 24.Oct.2007 285747 bytes hotcrp-2.9.tar.gz 20.Oct.2007 284897 bytes hotcrp-2.8.tar.gz 11.Oct.2007 283024 bytes hotcrp-2.7.tar.gz 23.Aug.2007 281563 bytes hotcrp-2.6.tar.gz 20.Aug.2007 277113 bytes hotcrp-2.5.tar.gz 12.Aug.2007 279000 bytes hotcrp-2.4.tar.gz 12.Aug.2007 275233 bytes hotcrp-2.3.tar.gz 16.Jul.2007 273569 bytes hotcrp-2.2.tar.gz 11.Jul.2007 271822 bytes hotcrp-2.1.tar.gz 10.Jul.2007 270920 bytes hotcrp-2.0.tar.gz 9.Jul.2007 270799 bytes
If you plan to use HotCRP contact me so I can keep you abreast of bug fixes and updates.
Test site (Warning: This may be out of date, broken by other Interweb users, or corrupted by spam. Log in with "email" chair, pc, and/or author1, and password the same as the username.)
HotCRP Features
Pronunciation note. Greg Minshall pronounces CRP as “crap”, so I suppose you could pronounce HotCRP as “hotcrap”.
Feel free to send me patches, bugs and feature requests. — Eddie Kohler