So you've decided to speak at a developer conference? You have a story you want to share with your peers - how you built something, how you learned something new, how you became a better developer and how everyone else can too - but you need to find a stage on which to share this story. There are hundreds of developer conferences out there, covering everything you could think of in our industry. Knowing they are there is nice, but finding out which are coming up and are have an open call for proposals (CFP) is the challenge. Over a number of years of submitting to many and , I have researched a number of resources for finding CFPs and I want to share the current crop in this post. getting accepted to a few conferences Websites, mailing lists, Twitter accounts Ideally all CFPs that were relevant to your interests or communities would be sent directly to you. Sadly that's not how the world works. Instead, we are fortunate that a number of people and communities do the hard work to go out and find the available CFPs and aggregate them for us. The following list includes websites, mailing lists and Twitter accounts that share developer conferences and their CFPs. Mailing lists bring the CFPs to your inbox, Twitter accounts are great if you're all over social media and the sites are always worth browsing. CFPLand Probably the most comprehensive website and mailing list full of developer CFPs that I know today, that you can filter by category, region, date and whether they offer hotel, travel or a stipend for speakers. CFP Land also sends out a round up of CFPs weekly and you can . CFP Land has a great list of conference CFPs sign up for the mailing list on the CFP Land home page As a bonus it also has , and even a . One thing to consider is that . The basic website and the other services listed above list CFPs that are closing within 21 days. The professional account gives you earlier access to the CFPs seen on the public site as well as tools to save CFPs you're interested in and reminders for when the deadlines are approaching. While I am not currently a customer and I can't comment on how much more useful this is, it is something I have considered and mostly I appreciate the effort to make CFP Land sustainable for the future. a Twitter account RSS feed CFP API CFP Land offers a professional account Tech Daily CFP Tech Daily CFP is a that retweets developer CFPs and a that gathers those retweets and mails a collection of them once a day. Twitter account mailing list It can be quite intense to receive emails once a day with CFPs, but it definitely feels like you're not missing out on anything. PaperCall is a site on which you can host your conference's CFP, so naturally it has a that is always worth perusing. PaperCall used to run the very comprehensive WeeklyCFP mailing list, but I haven't heard from it for a while so I believe it's defunct (which is certainly a reason to support CFP Land's professional accounts). PaperCall list of currently open CFPs Confs.tech is a community sourced list of conferences. They also that you can filter by category and country. They and I just discovered you can Confs.tech list live CFPs tweet out all the new conferences added to the site sign up to their mailing list on their home page SeeCFP I came across SeeCFP on the day of writing this post, so I'm not very well acquainted with it yet. It has a and a . They also . list of CFPs stored in Airtable weekly mailing list you can sign up to on the home page tweet out CFPs that are close to their deadlines Other lists of conferences There are a bunch more sites or Twitter accounts that are less comprehensive or that I don't necessarily use but came across as part of my research. Some are specific to languages or regions and any of them might be useful to browse once in a while. Ruby Conferences Smashing Magazine's upcoming web design conferences CSS Tricks' front-end design and development conferences (also ) CallingAllPapers on Twitter Dev Events in Australia CFP Organizer Frontend Conferences for Speaking Joindin PHP CFPs Mozilla Tech CFPs Good luck! Finding the right conference for your talk is a challenge and hopefully these resources can help you to discover a few more opportunities. If I've missed a CFP resource, please let me know . on Twitter Next up, watch out for my new mailing list sharing sites that list CFPs 😉.

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