netsec-ethz / netsec-deadlines

NetSec group conference tracker

Based on:

• ai-deadlines
• netdeadlines
• sec-deadlines

TODO

• Improve the tag slection process. Tier levels should be treated separately from tags, and perform an AND with the other tags. E.g., select "Networking conferences that are Tier 1" rather than "Networking conference or Tier 1 conferences", as it is now.
• Handle multiple abstract deadlines (as multiple paper deadlines are already supported).
• Implement the "Click to show only TAG" logic.

Adding/updating a conference

• Read the data format description below. Note that the timezone format sign is inverted (e.g., UTC+7 is written as Etc/GMT-7). It's not a bug. I hate this format too. I'd be happy to move to a different timezone JavaScript library that uses a friendlier format, but I don't have time for that.
• Update _data/conferences.yml. You can do that on Github or locally after forking the repo.
• Send a pull request

Conference entry record

Example record:

- name: Euro S&P
  description: IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy
  year: 2018
  link: http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/EuroSP2018/
  deadline: "2017-08-15 23:59"
  abstract: "2017-08-08 23:59"
  date: April 24-26
  timezone: Europe/Zurich
  place: London, UK
  tags: [SEC, PRIV, T1]

Descriptions of the fields:

Field name	Description
name*	Short conference name, without year
year*	Year the conference is happening
description	Description, or long name
link*	URL to the conference home page
deadline*	Deadline, or list of deadlines. (Gory details below)
abstract	Abstract deadline. No deadline by default.
timezone	Timezone in tz format. By default is UTC-12 (AoE)
date	When the conference is happening
place	Where the conference is happening
tags	One or multiple tags: SEC, PRIV, or CRYPTO

Fields marked with asterisk (*) are required.

Deadline format

⚠️ The multiple deadline format is not yet supporting abstract deadlines.

The deadline field can contain:

1. The simplest option: a date and time in ISO format. Example: "2017-08-19 23:59".
2. If a deadline is rolling, you can use a template date, just substitute the year with %y, or month with %m. Example: "%y-%m-15 23:59" means there is a deadline on the 15th day of every month, every year. "2017-%m-15" means a deadline on 15th day of every month, but only in 2017, i.e. "2018-01-15" is not a part of this template.
3. A list of (1) or (2). Example of two rolling deadlines, with one in the end of May every year, and the second in the end of February:

- "%y-05-31 23:59"
- "%y-02-28 23:59"

On the page, all deadlines are displayed in viewer's local time (that's a feature).

Note: If the deadline hour is {h}:00, it will be automatically translated into {h-1}:59:59 to avoid pain and confusion when it happens to be midnight in local time.

Timezones

The timezone is specified in tz format. Unlike abbreviations (e.g. EST), these are un-ambiguous. Here are tz codes for some common timezones:

Common name	tz
UTC	Etc/UTC
America Pacific Time	America/Los_Angeles
Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8)	Etc/GMT+8 (Yes, the sign is inverted for some weird reason)
America Eastern Time	America/New_York
Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5)	Etc/GMT+5
American Samoa Time (UTC-11)	Pacific/Samoa or Etc/GMT+11. This timezone does not use DST.
Aleutian Islands	America/Adak