When I try to submit a publication without attaching a file I get an error message saying that the upload destination folder is not writable. This is not the correct error message (assuming that it is required that a File is attached.

When I view the page for a publication the 'Status' is specified as "Not Accepted". It's not clear to me whether this means that it has not be accepted by the IP Committee or not accepted as a paper at the conference it was submitted to. In either case, is there also a 'pending' state?

Created a publication titled "Data Mining on XLIFF standard" and edited it, and added an event titled "3rd international xliff symposium". However, cannot assign the publication to the created event, as the system always change the event to some random event (or the top most event?).So changed the publication type to abstract for the moment

Having to scroll horizontally through the text entered as the description of the event (e.g. to check for typos before submitting) is awkward. Might be better to have a multiline text box.

on profile page a fail on form entry check, e.g. too few characters in the phone number, causes all the other fields filled in to be annoyingly lost. Not expected form filling behaviour these days.

Just uploaded a PDF presentation from VistaTEC event. I get an 'access forbidden' error when trying to click on the presentation link from the activity. The Dashboard also lists the presentation date as Jan 1st - even though I entered the event date as march 4th.

For example, I add an FP7 meeting with a title "Pluto Meeting" with a description. This means the "Event Name" is obsolete. However, without filling in all fields in the "Event Name", I can't add a date for the meeting.

Also, events should have the option for a date RANGE as well as a single date

Hint messages might be too subtle. Obviously they're not intended to be obtrusive but there is something about them that looks a little off to me. Maybe the transparency is okay and the font just needs to be increased