Event management with Indico

I too have attended a few conferences where the organizers used Indico and from the user perspective the sites worked fine. One really painful aspect occurs if you want to make an archive copy of the conference site, say to keep a permanent record of all the uploaded papers or talks that the site publishes — the conference organizers’ IT department may take down the site after a year or two so the community whose conference it was doesn’t have much choice if they want to keep their history. There may be an easy way to do that if you are an insider, but if all you have is access through the Indico web-server it takes a ****-load of editing to clear all of the stuff you don’t want/need after spidering the pages.