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Meetings managed

Twenty years ago, the particle physics community launched Indico, an open-source software package for handling all aspects of meetings. On behalf of the Indico team, Tim Smith explains what Indico can do, and how the wider physics community could benefit from adopting it.

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Indico has been realized through the efforts of more than 70 contributors over the past two decades, and the visionary leadership of the many project leaders. In helping prepare this article I especially acknowledge the current leadership of T. Baron, P. Ferreira, and A. Mönnich.

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Smith, T. Meetings managed. Nat Rev Phys 4, 429–430 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-022-00480-0

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