This site is a written reference on developer-conference practice. It has no newsletter, no account system and no comment section, so the reasons to get in touch are few and specific. They are listed below along with what a useful message contains, because a correction that arrives without a URL takes longer to act on than one that arrives with one.
How to get in touch
By email, at [email protected]. There is no form on this page, because a form would need somewhere to send the data and there is nowhere here that stores anything. What arrives by email is read; what does not need a reply generally does not get one.
Response times are honest rather than encouraging. Corrections are dealt with quickly because they are cheap to act on. Everything else is answered when there is time, and occasionally not at all, which is the ordinary condition of a reference site maintained alongside other work.
Corrections
The most useful thing anybody sends. This site makes factual claims about how conferences are organised and about events that were held, and some of those claims will be wrong.
A useful correction names the page and says what is wrong with it. Where the correction concerns a dated fact about an event, anything published at the time is worth including, because the regional conference index deliberately records only what the public record supports and would rather be narrower than wrong.
Corrections are made without ceremony. There is no correction log and no note added to the page, because a reference page is more useful when it simply says the right thing.
The conference index in particular
The index is the part of the site most likely to be incomplete. It lists regional events with a surviving public record, which means an event that left little behind is probably missing rather than excluded, and several entries certainly cover fewer years than the event actually ran.
Missing is far more likely than excluded.
What helps is the event name, the city, and anything published at the time: a schedule, an announcement, a write-up. What does not help, and cannot be used, is a recollection of a year with nothing behind it, because the index would then be recording memory as fact.
What gets a reply, and what does not
A correction gets one, because it usually needs a question answering before it can be acted on. A question about the conference index gets one, since the answer is often that the event is missing rather than excluded and somebody has just supplied the record that fixes it. A permission request gets one, and it is nearly always yes.
What does not get a reply is anything offering to place a link, sell a listing, write a guest article or improve the site’s search performance. Those arrive in volume, they are all the same message with a different name on it, and answering them only confirms the address is read.
Reusing anything here
The written material is available for quotation with attribution, in the ordinary way. Quoting a paragraph with a link needs no permission and no email.
Reproducing a whole page, translating one, or using the diagrams somewhere else is worth asking about first, and the answer is usually yes. The diagrams are drawn for this site and carry its own figures, so they generally need a caption saying where they came from to make sense elsewhere. The terms are set out on the legal notice.
What this site does not do
It does not run an event, sell tickets, or take submissions. Pages such as the call for speakers describe how a call for speakers works at a conference; they are not one, and there is nothing here to submit a proposal to.
It does not accept guest posts, sponsored articles or link placements, and messages offering them are not answered.
It does not collect anything about visitors beyond what a web server necessarily logs, which is set out on the privacy page. There is no analytics script, no tracking pixel and no advertising network on any page of this site.
Questions
How do I report a factual error?
Email the page address and what is wrong with it. Where the point concerns a date or an event, anything published at the time helps a great deal, because the index records only what the public record supports.
Can a missing conference be added to the index?
Where there is a public record of it, yes. The event name, the city and something published at the time is enough. A recollection with nothing behind it cannot be used, because the index would then be recording memory as fact.
Is there a contact form?
No. A form needs somewhere to send what is typed into it, and nothing on this site stores anything about visitors. Email does the same job without adding a system that would have to be described on the privacy page.
Can material from this site be reused?
Quoting with attribution and a link needs no permission. Reproducing a whole page, translating one, or using the diagrams elsewhere is worth asking about, and the answer is usually yes.
Are guest posts or sponsored articles accepted?
No, and messages offering them are not answered. The same applies to link placements and to requests to add a commercial listing to the conference index.