Software engineering deadlines countdown

Based on ai-deadlines by @abshkdz and sec-deadlines

Adding/updating a conference

• 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: ICSE
  description: International Conference on Software Engineering - Research Track
  year: 2025
  link: https://conf.researchr.org/track/icse-2025/icse-2025-research-track
  deadline: 
  - "2024-03-15 23:59"
  - "2024-06-26 23:59"
  date: April 26 - May 4, 2025
  place: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  note: Mandatory abstract deadline on March 15 (first deadline) and July 26 (second deadline) 2024.
  tags: [CO, RPT]

Descriptions of the fields:

Field name	Description
name*	Short entry name, without year
description	Description, or long name
year*	Year the event is happening
link*	URL to the entry home page
deadline*	A list of deadlines. (Gory details below)
date	When the entry is happening
place	Where the entry is happening
note	Extra notes about the deadline
tags	One or multiple tags

Fields marked with asterisk (*) are required.

Deadline format

The deadline field can contain:

1. The simplest option: a date and time in ISO format. Example: ["2017-08-19 23:59"] (Note that you need to wrap even a single deadline in a list).
2. If a deadline is rolling, you can use a template date, just substitute the year with %y and the year before the conference with %Y. Example: ["%y-01-15 23:59"] means there is a deadline on the 15th January in the same year as the conference.
3. A list of (1) or (2). Example of two rolling deadlines, with one in the end of October in the year prior to the conference year, and the second in the end of February in the same year as the conference:

- "%Y-10-31 23:59"
- "%y-02-28 23:59"

4. If the deadline has not yet been announced, use ["TBA"] as the deadline for the conference (case sensitive.) It will show up at the bottom of future conferences.

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

Please remember that the timezone should be AoE (Anywhere on Earth) when you submit a pull request.

Note

The note field can be used to indicate additional information about a deadline. For example, if an abstract is required before the deadline.

Tags

The tag field indicates the type of deadline entry you are adding. Users can filter deadlines based on tags. There are two main categories:

• Venue type: The type of venues the deadline indicates. For example, is it a conference (CO), a workshop (WO), or a special edition of a journal (JO).
• Tracks: Software engineering conferences generally have multiple tracks with different goals, scopes, requirements, and deadlines. For example, ICSE 2025 has a Research and a New Ideas and Emerging Results tracks. The former is a research paper track (RPT), while the latter is a new idea and emerging results track (NIER). We are currently testing our tag groups for tracks and welcome any suggestions! :)

A complete tag list is available in types.yml.

Run locally

To run locally the page, the following must be done:

1. Install Jekyll.
2. Run the page with jekyll serve.