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Comment by cezarfloroiu | Hacker News Reader

I promise to not get bored and to add more value to it soon;) Or to find a way to automate the maintenance while adding more value :)

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The tool is super useful. However, your search could be bether with respect to geography. Let me explain ..

I am in the Bay area, and I'm interested in all local tech conferences. Seems like if I search for SF, I only see conferences in that city. What would be useful is to gather commutable geos together. When I was on the east coast, NY, NJ, CT and MA conferences were all reachable in a day trip, which is why that was my region of interest.

I think someone did this for hackathons too but not sure if that died off. Another idea is to link to previous iterations of conferences.

Final thought .. you could mine ACM/IEEE conferences .. those are tech-relevant.

I agree on the ACM/IEEE part! A lot of the bigger conferences do quite a bit to appeal to practitioners (as opposed to just academics).

For example, ACM CHI has a huge expo for demos and tech companies. IEEE/ACM ICSE has an industry track (now known as Software Engineering in Practice).

Automating or crowd sourcing would be a good idea

I'm interested in your automation strategy. Many organizers like Fresh New Conference Sites every year, which means scraping for the dates and locations is likely to break each year.

You could add...

A calendar with a tag cloud that can be toggled.

A world map with the same tag cloud.

Work backwards and make it into an archive of-

a conference about conferences.

I already see this happening in a lot of industries.

1. Create website that aggregates something tech event

2. Drive traffic to it through SEO and by utilizing the FOMO

3. Create a conference about tech conferences and have an instant audience

Haha a conference of about conferences is def. not in my mind. But everything else you suggested, it is! Thanks!

I was joking but after thinking about it the Meta Conference might attract a small but fascinating audience. I doubt it would be boring. Organizing it is probably the easiest conference ever organized. You just ask for help along with the invitations.

It's such a dumb idea it <s>might</s> will actually work.

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