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Hello everyone! Spring here and summer is around the corner, how great is this?! 😃
Disclaimer: the conferences in this newsletter are not sponsored. Just hand picked.

Our Twitter developer account is back!

For a while now, our twitter account had stopped tweeting new conferences. This was due to a violation of automation rules as we were @ tweeting to conference organizers..! I’ve learned my lesson and I will no longer do that. From now on, we will only tweet the conference name with the upcoming date and CFP when we have it!
Feel free to follow us if you want to hear about all the new upcoming conferences. 😉 

Conferences to keep an eye on 👀

If I let the data talk, here are the top conferences that people are interested in:

  • JSNation – 3 days · Amsterdam · June
  • JSConf.eu – 3 days · Berlin · June
  • JSCamp – 2 days · Barcelona · July
  • JSConf – 2 days · Carlsbad, CA (near San Diego) · August
  • Smashing Conf – 2 days · Freiburg · September / 2 days · NYC · October
  • DotJS – 2 days · Paris · December
…Ok, so this list is a bit biased towards JavaScript/Frontend, so here is a couple of more to look out for this year! 

Upcoming Call For Papers

Attending a conference is cool, but speaking at one is even cooler! 😎 Here are some conferences with open call for papers.

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.

Who is behind Confs.tech and how does it work?

Short answer: you
Long answer:
We are four active contributors. I (Nima), originally started the website and asked Ekaterina to join forces with me as she was maintaining a list of JavaScript conferences on GitHub. A bit after Trivikram and Christian who were contributing a lot to the repo joined forces as well. Most of the conferences (if not all), are added manually by the community or by conference organizers through the website or on our conference-data GitHub repository and then merged into the data. Once merged, everything is synced by a backend and appears on the website. 

Want to add anything?

If you have ideas, want to contribute or just reach out to us, you can either open issues or contribute on GitHub, send us an email at contact@confs.tech or tweet at us!

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