A bit of history
Originally, Confs.tech was really just a website for displaying data fetched from JSON files hosted on GitHub. The goal was to give a better UI to open source lists or blog articles that were scattered on the Internet. What was (and still is) most important to me was to keep everything open source and let the people contribute to it. Realistically, I don’t see myself or anyone else going scouting the Internet for new conferences. It’s not sustainable. It should either be maintained by the community, or it might die eventually. And I have to say, after almost 2 years, it has shown to be working pretty well. 😊
My wish is that this initiative stays forever free, open source and free of advertisement. So far we pay for nothing (free hosting on Heroku and GitHub, free tier on MailChimp and free tier on Algolia), and if one day we need to pay for some services, we might just ask for your support.
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