robertjlooby / confsinfo

confs.info

Dependencies

• elm
• docker

Running

Compile Elm code:

• cd frontend
• elm package install
• elm make src/Main.elm --output ../backend/dist/elm.min.js

Build and run server

• cd ../backend
• docker-compose up web
• open http://localhost:3000/index.html

Tests

• cd frontend/test
• elm package install
• npm install
• node_modules/elm-test/bin/elm-test AllTests.elm

and

• cd backend
• docker-compose run test

Rationale

I wanted to make a central place for designers and developers to find conferences they might be interested in. Conferences in any language, location, or focus are welcome so long as they:

• Are targeted at designers and/or developers
• Have a set location and date
• Are the type of conference one might travel to (no local meetups, etc.)

If you know of a conference this list is missing (or want to add a feature), open a pull request!

confsinfo's Issues

Date filtering

Ability to filter in a date range.

Default to filtering to only future dates.

Persist filter state

Some way to persist the state of the filters chosen. Either through local storage or through the query string (which would allow for bookmarking or sharing links).

Nothing happens?

I clicked everything, but nothing happens. Blockers are disabled.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.116 Safari/537.36

Am I doing something wrong?

Design

The page is mostly unstyled and looks terrible.

Add display string to model's tags

Right now the Tags are just being converted to strings to be displayed. This doesn't work for tags that should contain symbols (like CPlusPlus for C++) or that should start with a lowercase letter (like IOS for iOS). Tags should have a display string associated with them.

Add inclusive/exclusive filter toggles

If someone knows English and Spanish it would would make sense they could look for conferences with the tags English or Spanish and see conferences that are in either or both languages. I'm not sure how we would handle this case and also allowing something like Ruby or FunctionalProgramming which are in different "sections".