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#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:

1. Pick a conference script that's needed in the Issues with a tag of help wanted.
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. Submit a pull request with your new conference script.
6. Get your pull request accepted.
7. Feel good about yourself for helping the technology community.

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 10/19/15)

1. PhreakNic
2. IT Computing Cloud Conference