Hey, thanks for checking it out. I like the CFP notification idea. Was planning to provide some sort of notification system for the conferences users save. And thanks for catching that, I need to clean the data a little bit.
Hey, its actually vanilla JS/Bootstrap Table. I need to spend some time cleaning up some console logs and a few other buggy things. Hopefully will push some changes tonight.
Good idea. I tried looking for a tool like this quite recently because I keep missing interesting conferences around me or I find about them when it's already too late. I didn't find anything satisfactory so your tool has potential.
BTW. OAuth Sign In doesn't work in your app - it seems like you need to whitelist your redirect_uris at OAuth providers setup.
I've tried to use lanyrd in the past and have found its information to be unreliable and also difficult to find what I'm looking for, e.g., "what Ruby conferences in the US are coming up next year worth attending/speaking at?"
Keeping conference information up to date requires continuous attention and it doesn't look like it's been getting much lately.
Make the website button open in a new tab, or at least use an <a> element instead of a <button> (you can still use the .btn classes from Bootstrap in <a> elements if you didn't know)
Normally the smaller stuff. Eg for Python/data science in London there's a meetup.com miniconf that gets hosted in various company offices and you just sign up and turn up and listen to some cool people talk about whatever mad science they've been up to. Good places to find jobs/people too.
It would be nice if the start/end date could be a range
it seems tied to a specific start date for a conference, rather than any conferences starting after this date
it would be nice to see the fields filter down as other parameters are defined, if i set USA as the country, I should just see cities hosting conferences in the USA
V. cool, but would be great to be able to use it as a tool of discovery: list topics covered using tags, and indicate rough # of attendees (I know some people prefer to only attend larger events)
Just want to say thanks for all the awesome feedback! I am going to put some time to help make it more useful for everyone. To best stay in touch, sign up on the site if you like and drop me a message. Thanks HN!
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 93.6 ms ] threadBTW, you have "USA" and "United States" as two countries, might want to combine those.
On the same lines as the comment above, London and London Borough of Camden are listed separately too.
Edit: And you're printing some arrays into the browser console.
BTW. OAuth Sign In doesn't work in your app - it seems like you need to whitelist your redirect_uris at OAuth providers setup.
edit: found out the issue. thanks for the heads up. All fixed.
Out of curiosity, do you mind sharing what stack you're using?
Never quite lived up to the potential in my mind (or perhaps there just wasn't a big enough pain / market).
Still I like and respect it. I look at it weekly when I curate the Amsterdam startup digest.
Keeping conference information up to date requires continuous attention and it doesn't look like it's been getting much lately.
However, this suffers from being a SPA:
- URLs are not persistent, meaning if I cannot bookmark searches I care about.
- Outbound links are buttons for some reason instead of anchor tags. This means that ctrl-click does not work and will bring directly to the website.
Other things:
- I don't think it's easy to filter conferences which are within an acceptable distance. A map-based search a'la yelp would go a long way here.
I tend to use LWN's conference calendar and CFP calendar for this; this looks like the same thing generalized to a broader set of conferences.
* Conference Partner - an academic website for conferences and journals built by Dou SUN (孙斗)
it would be nice to see the fields filter down as other parameters are defined, if i set USA as the country, I should just see cities hosting conferences in the USA
Love how clean and quick it is though
Also, I notice you're dynamically loading content on every page view? Do schedules change every few seconds, or couldn't that be at least page-cached?
I'm interested in knowing about upcoming conferences in Europe. So some kind of grouping for the countries (NA, EU, Asia etc) would be useful.
Or sort by distance from a given zip code or city?