pretalx
Web-based event management, including running a Call for Papers, reviewing submissions, and scheduling talks. Exports and imports for various related tools.
Actively maintained with regular releases.
Commit activity more than 86% of tracked projects; popularity more than 34%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 946 |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v2026.2.1 · 8 Jul 2026 |
| Repo updated | 22 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Built with | Python |
Is pretalx actively maintained?
pretalx is under active development: 1518 commits landed over the last 11 months, averaging roughly 140 commits a month in the most recent quarter.
The most recent tagged release, v2026.2.1, is about 3 months old.
Among the 5 conference management projects we track, pretalx currently has the highest health score.
What pretalx actually does
Pretalx is a web application designed to handle conference workflows, specifically managing the Call for Papers process, review cycles, and schedule generation. It provides import and export functions to interface with external tooling used in event organisation. The platform is written in Python and licensed under the Apache-2.0 licence.
Best fit: Organisers of academic symposia, user groups, or tech conferences who need an open-source tool to collect submissions and build a timetable on their own hardware.
Worth knowing: Self-hosting event management software requires you to manage your own data backups, user authentication, and uptime during critical submission deadlines.
Deployment notes
As a Python application, it will typically require a WSGI or ASGI server behind a reverse proxy handling TLS, alongside a persistent relational database and storage for uploaded files.
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