SoftwareMill is engaged in the community. We organize, attend and speak at the conferences. We know how difficult it is to find speakers, but also for speakers to find the right conference. That is why we have created the IT Conferences Call For Papers List.

Past

Time flies. 3 years has already passed since we started the IT Conferences Call For Papers List. Initially its only representation was the GitHub repository. It contained a pretty simple table with CFP end date, event date, location, links to the event & CFP websites and list of keywords.

Later further improvements were introduced. Two years ago we added a Twitter account @ItCfpList. Thanks to simple Zapier based automation every commit is automatically transformed to a tweet.

Present

This year, thanks to contribution from Fabian Stäber IT CFP List landed on Google Calendar. Provided Google Apps Script parses the repository and automatically adds all events (both events dates & CFP end dates) to the calendar.

October 2019

Google Apps Scripts allows easy integration with Google apps and what is most important for such simple applications, it does not produce huge traffic, they are fully free.

Future

So far there are no new plans for technical improvements, but we hope to get more and more contributions from the community. Our twitter account has already over 700 followers, so we hope to reach round 1024 during next year.

Contribution process hasn’t changed, you just need to add a Pull Request (example here) with a properly named commit <Conference name> (@TwitterHandle #TwitterTag) - <yyyy.mm.dd-dd> - <City>, <Country> e.g.

This way every automation can work just out of the box.

Thanks to everyone who has been with us for the past 3 years, we hope to reach your expectations during the next 3 and more!