It might be useful to display the past conferences in reverse order(most recently over at first) ?

First of all, thanks for RubyConferences.org!

I've got a suggestion / request: would you be up for using Dependabot to automatically create dependency update PRs for this repo? I ran it against my fork and it generated these PRs. I'll port the ffi and nokogiri ones across to this repo now because they're security related (although I very much doubt exploitable here).

I built Dependabot, but I'm honestly only suggesting it because I hope it can save you some time. I'd love any feedback, and obviously having open source repos using Dependabot helps boost its profile, but if it's not helpful to you then it's not really worth anything.

You can install it from here or here if you decide to give it a try. It's been through GitHub's security testing (to be allowed in the GitHub Marketplace) and is used by a few thousand organisations, and the source code is here.

Hello,
Happy new year! Prosit 2022! First thanks for the fantastic ruby conferences page / website.

I'm the humble maintainer of the planet ruby and the ruby conferences page over there. See for the source https://github.com/planetruby/conferences and https://planetruby.github.io/conferences/ for the published / live pages.

If I dare to say (and speculate that maintenance has become a thankless job) - you have open pull request (5) and issues (4) and there hasn't been any update to the website (e.g. no web feed, no COVID-19 updates, etc.), thus, may I suggest joining forces over at the Planet Ruby. You are welcome anytime and I can promise you that all data in the conferences.yml will get merged in so nothing gets lost (as far as I can tell only the video_link is missing in the Planet Ruby datafiles that are organized by year, see https://github.com/planetruby/conferences/tree/master/_data.

Anyways, let me know what you think. Keep it up. Cheers. Prosit 2022!

PS:

You will also get a big thank you on the page and
get honored as the founder of the ruby conferences page.

See as an example the book collection at Planet Ruby
started / founded by Florent Guilleux in 2016 - https://github.com/planetruby/books.

PPS: Updated for 2022. One year without a response or even a comment. Let's see what 2022 brings.

PPPS: Just checking in ;-). Happy new year 2023! Prosit. Anyone cares to comment.

I'm wondering if it would make sense to reactivate the https://twitter.com/rubyconferences and potentially setup an account on ruby.social to promote and make people more aware of the conferences which are happening.

Be it when a new one gets announced, a CFP openes, a CFP closes or when the ticket sales start.

I think it would be awesome for visibility to have an "independent" account that can promote and amplify Ruby conferences.

More and more meetups are coming back, let's add a new section to the website where we can also track meetups

Hi, this nice, outdoor conference is not listed:
https://grillrb.com/

Rubyfuza conference has wrong video link. This video link is a playlist for the Birmingham on Rails 2020 conference.

I'm considering running a Conference either late this year or early next year and I'd like to get a gauge on interest. is there a good way to do that through this site?

Really just looking for a place to state it's a possibility and link to a google form or something that would allow me to get a sense of whether I could do it or not.

If this is something you'd rather not have happen here I totally understand, and I'm open to any advice/feedback you might have on how I could go about gauging interest for a Conference in Austin.

I'm not entirely certain that this is a problem, but I'd like to check.

Here in New Zealand we're almost a day ahead of some parts of the world that contain a lot of Ruby programmers, so the timezone of dates is quite important. The CFP for Kiwi Ruby closes at midnight the night of on Monday 3rd July in NZ time, which is 2 in the morning of that day in Hawaii, 5am in LA, and 8am in New York. If we'd chosen to close the CFP at 9pm, it'd still be Sunday in Hawaii.

This means that the behaviour around turning the dates into "tomorrow" etc based on local time zone with Moment can lead to misleading outcomes, if I've interpreted the way it's working here correctly. So someone in Hawaii looking at the website at 9pm Monday NZ time would still see "CFP closes tomorrow", even though it would be closing in three hours. And on the flipside, NZ viewers would often be told CFPs were closed when they weren't.

I'm not sure what the answer to this is - I guess requiring timezones and datetimes somehow in the data input?

Thanks!

I'd like to propose a limit on how far in the future the website shows meetups.

Meetups are a bit different than Conferences in that there are so many and they happen so often. to that end, I think the meetup page is a bit over indexed in that if I'm looking for a meetup in the next 30-90 days it would be hard to find them as they are somewhere in the middle of the page as there are events currently posted through the end of the year.

Or maybe there is an option to add filtering or sections based on location and/or month?

to be clear, I think what's been done so far, is awesome! and I'm open to conversation, but just wanted to bring up something I noticed with the meetup page as a meetup organizer.

It would be nice to have pins on a map indicating the location of each conference

Thank you very much for your work on keeping this updated.

GitHub recently introduced support for TLS certificate for GitHub Pages. I think we should enable this if it's not much of a hassle.

It looks like we need to update A record to point to new IP addresses as described here, then optionally we can enforce HTTPS connection in repository config.

What do you think?

It seems like the CSS file at css/style.css is a compiled version of a previous SASS file.

I think we should clean up that file by removing the outdated comments and by properly formatting it. Or we make sure to bring back the SASS file into the repo.

Something is currently not right with HTTPS. We should see if we can resolve the SSL certificate isuse mentioned in #492 and maybe also setup automatic redirects to enforce HTTPS for convenience.

In the past, past and upcoming lists were static so the data displayed only changed on deployment. That's why it made sense to only invalidate the cache on deployment.

However, at the moment we need a mechanism to invalidate the CDN cache every morning to automatically upgrade what shows up in the list

I was looking at my calendar and noticed RubyConf 2023 is listed twice in my Google Calendar ics feed from this site, including the incorrect date (Nov 6-8, 2023).

Things I have tried:

1. I have refreshed my browser with Google Calendar
2. Verified this bug on my iOS devices
3. Looked at the data file, _data/conferences.yml which seems correct

Can someone else verify this bug?

As seen in https://travis-ci.org/ruby-conferences/ruby-conferences.github.io/builds/186652803

It doesn't make sense to check links for past events, because the website may be no longer maintained.

Hey! Thanks for the website!

I'd love if we could filter (in) events with CFPs open. That would help speakers a lot.

I've lost some enthusiasm for this project and so I'm opening up this issue in the hopes that I can find people that are interested in working on it. I've heard from a few people over the years that were interested in helping such as @marcoroth @andycroll @adarsh but probably more that I'm forgetting.

I don't want to give the project away completely but I do want to have help in merging PRs, improving the site and just generally not being the only person to lead this thing.

So I think what I'm saying is that if you want to have more input on this project then please respond to this issue and let's work something out!

I am a big fan of the iCal feed added here. I'm a conference organizer and it's helpful for me to try to plan to attend other conferences.

I like the idea of having CFP dates also, as implemented here, but for me personally, it has added a ton of noise to my daily calendar.

Is anyone else feeling this? I wanted to check before I proposed a solution like "add a separate conference dates + CFP ical feed".

Birghtonruby cfp process seems to be closed on february 28

Please refer to http://rubyconf.ph/

As per conversation in #487 :

The data file is very long.

I almost wonder if it's easier to have sub-files also, maybe aggregated per year? Not for this PR but maybe consider for the future.

According to the website -http://conferenciaror.es/ the date is 14-15th October 2016 and not 21-22 as in https://github.com/ruby-conferences/ruby-conferences.github.io/blob/master/_data/current.yml#L66

Sometimes it would be nice to have some conference notes link.
Often I'm coming back from a conference and people ask me about highlights/gists/summaries and luckily some folks are doing notes (i.e. here, here, here or here).

It would be nice if the ruby-conferences website would also be a place to have much (or even all) the information about a conference archived and linked.

Notes are often a useful part of that.

Most repositories have migrated to the new main git default. I was wondering if we should do the same here.

I was reluctant to just to do it because I don't know if it would affect deployments or the like, which is why I open this issue so we can discuss it.

In website still showing past conference. Is this a bug?. can we fix it?

This will allow new additions to be tweeted automatically or open other possibilities like sending out emails notifications to subscribers, IFTTT etc.

Hi! I see lots of events canceled because of the COVID-19. Wouldn't be a good idea to remove or strike through or put a comment in all these canceled events?