#ConferenceSeeker

ConferenceSeeker is a project written in PowerShell that helps you keep up with the seemingly ever-increasing number of conferences and meetups across the world. ConferenceSeeker sets out to give you a single place to go to find all of the interesting technology conferences you might like to go to.

ConferenceSeeker does this by scraping the conference websites to gather this information.

#Help Make ConferenceSeeker Better!

If you know PowerShell, are a whiz with Invoke-WebRequest and can navigate the DOM with the best of them, I need your help! Each conference requires a unique approach due to the difference in each conference's webpage. I need help writing scripts that can parse each conference webpage to output a common type.

Here's how you can contribute to help make this the one-stop shop for up-to-date conference information:

The Most Helpful Way

1. Pick a conference script that's needed in the Issues with a tag of help wanted or create an issue yourself and build the script.
2. Check out the _ConferenceTemplate.ps1 script script in the WebParsing folder.
3. Do whatever you have to to pull out the conference's start and end dates.
4. Output the start and end dates in a hashtable with key names of Start and End and [datetime] objects as the dates into the ConferenceTemplate script.
5. Add the conference to the Conferences JSON configuration file.
6. Update the README to add the supported conference and update the "as of date".
7. Submit a pull request with your new conference script.
8. Get your pull request accepted.
9. Feel good about yourself for helping the technology community.

Another Way to Help

If you see a conference not supported or without an Issue, add it to the ConferenceSeeker Wiki and let us know!

#Supported Conferences (as of 10/24/15)

1. PhreakNic
2. IT Computing Cloud Conference
3. DockerConUS
4. ChefConf
5. PowerShell Conference Europe
6. VMWorldUS
7. VMWorldEU