Colibrí is a web based tool to help scientific conferences/workshops
organizers. 
Papers submitted to conferences have to be reviewed and selected by a group
of researcher (the Tecnical Program Committee - TPC as acronym) under the 
control of one or more TPC chairs. 
Every conference has its own rules, but in general the following steps are
mandatory:
- Authors submit papers
 
- The TPC chair distributes submitted papers to TPC members (usually 3) that
are able to review them
 
- Every TPC member reviews its assigned papers, assigning some of them to
colleagues that are closer to the paper subject
 
- The TPC, after all the needed reviews have been completed, choses the
papers that received best reviews in order to be published
 
- All the authors are informed about the status of their papers
 
 
Often a conference is divided in many tracks, each focusing on different
topics, and each with a Track chair. 
There are many tools that help with all the previous tasks (see the Links
section for the list of those that I know). 
Colibrí was created with the aim to be a small,
portable, efficient and 
flexible tool to help all the person involved in the 
submission/reviewing process: from authors to TPC chair.
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