It seems this would be quite viable for scenarios where there isn’t a need to track item-level attendees and locations and times.
To use OJS for a full conference solution I think two things would be required:
- A plugin to extend either reader or subscriber roles to like/follow particular articles / research outputs.
- This would potentially be generally useful, for example “my favorites”.
- This might also be extended to limit likes/follows to a specific number in the case of registration limits.
- A plugin to associate articles / research outputs with additional metadata for date and times and locations.
- This would be pretty specific to conferencing usage.