README.md

https://confwatch.ninja/

Discover hacking conferences around the world.

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This repository contains the data files for the ConfWatch project, it is from the community for the community ❤️

Contributing

You can contribute by forking this repository and adding / fixing attributes, categories, events or editions.

Attributes

The attributes folder contains JSON files representing boolean attributes of conferences editions, such attributes should be kept as simple answers to questions like:

Does this conference edition has kids friendly facilities?

Which is represented as the kids-friendly.json file:

{
	"title": "Kids Friendly",
	"description": "The event has kids friendly facilities."
}

Categories

Similarly to the attributes, the categories contains json files of the events categories, such as infosec.json:

{
	"title": "InfoSec",
	"description": "Information security."
}

Events

Events are represented as sub folders of the root events folder, each one having a main event.json file describing the main information of a conference:

{
	"title": "defcon",
	"description": "originally started in 1993, it was a meant to be a party for member of \"platinum net\", a fido protocol based hacking network out of canada. as the main u.s. hub i was helping the platinum net organizer (i forget his name) plan a closing party for all the member bbs systems and their users. he was going to shut down the network when his dad took a new job and had to move away.",
	"website": "https://www.defcon.org/",
	"categories": ["infosec"]
}

Editions

Each event has an editions subfolder containing json files for each of the past, current and ideally future editions of the given conference, for instance, here's the file events/defcon/editions/defcon-25.json:

{
	"title": "DEFCON 25",
	"type": 0,
	"description": "DEFCON 25 bla bla bla bla.",
	"website": "https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-25/dc-25-index.html",
	"country": "US",
	"city": "Las Vegas",
	"address": "Caesar Palace Hotel",
	"starts": "2017-07-27T09:00:00+01:00",
	"ends": "2017-07-30T22:00:00+01:00",
	"tags": "defcon,defcon25,dc25",
	"attributes": [
		"code-of-conduct"
	]
}

Field	Description
title	The title of the edition.
type	0 for conference, 1 for camp, 2 for training
description	A description of the edition.
website	Edition's website.
country	Country code.
city	Name of the city.
address	Address of the event.
starts	Event start date in RFC3339 format.
ends	Event end date in RFC3339 format.
tags	Comma separated list of words to use as tags, for social media streams, etc.
attributes	The list of attributes this event edition matches, their name should match the contents of the attributes folder.