CMS, or Contest Management System, is a distributed system for running and (to some extent) organizing a programming contest.

CMS has been designed to be general and to handle many different types of contests, tasks, scorings, etc. Nonetheless, CMS has been explicitly build to be used in the 2012 International Olympiad in Informatics, held in September 2012 in Italy.

The complete CMS documentation is at https://cms.readthedocs.org/.

The mailing list for announcements, discussion about development and user support is contestms@freelists.org. You can subscribe at http://www.freelists.org/list/contestms.

So far, it is an extremely low traffic mailing list. In the future, we may consider splitting it in different lists for more specific usage cases (user support, development, ...).

To help with the troubleshooting, you can collect the complete log files that are placed in /var/local/log/cms/ (if CMS was running installed) or in ./log (if it was running from the local copy).

CMS has been used in several official and unofficial contests. In particular we are aware of the following.

• International competitions:
  • IOI 2012 (International Olympiad in Informatics), Sirmione and Montichiari, Italy, September 2012;
  • IOI 2013, Brisbane, Australia, July 2013;
  • FARIO 2012 (French-Australian Regional Informatics Olympiad), March 2012.
• National competitions:
  • OII 2011 (Italian Olympiad in Informatics), Sirmione, September 2011;
  • OII 2012, Sirmione, October 2012;
  • AIIO 2012 (Australian Invitational Informatics Olympiad), February 2012;
  • Taipei High School Programming Contest, Taiwan, October 2012;
  • Croatian high school programming contest 2013, March 2013;
  • Festival of Innovative Technologies 2013 (national high school programming contest), Slovenia, April 2013;
  • OCI 2013 (Chilean Olympiads in Informatics), May 2013;
  • Slovenian Invitational Informatics Olympiad, May 2013;
  • JOI Open Contest 2013, Japan, June 2013.
• Local competitions:
  • ABC 2013 (Algoritmi Bergamo Contest), Bergamo. Italy, May 2013.
• Training:
  • training camps for the selections of the national IOI teams of Australia, India, Italy, Japan, Latvia and Serbia.
• Other:
  • laboratory exercises and exams of the course "Algorithms and data structures" at University of Trento, Italy (year 2011-2012).

If you used CMS for a contest, selection, or a similar event, and want to publicize this information, we would be more than happy to hear from you and add it to this list.