Conference Import

Imports conference data from different sources into the unified ocdata format. Also provides a express based server to serve the unified files from the filesystem/memory.

The idea is to avoid a database alltogether since only static data is served.

Usage

Import data for a specific conference

1. Create a config file (see importer-config for examples)
2. Install the dependencies npm install
3. Build the code npm run build
4. Run the importer (e.g. for 35C3) node lib/index.js --import --config importer-config/config-35c3.json --out out-35c3.json

Serve the API data

Given the out.json that was generated before run

node lib/index.js --serve --pid your.pid -- *.json

This will serve all data from the JSON files in the current directory. The server will give a bit of output.

Debug / Development options

• Set LIVE_DEBUG=true to fake the conference to be currently live
• Alternatively set TIME_START_DEBUG=<date> where <date> is any format that MomentJS can parse. This will be the start point of the first session.

TODO

• Make the webserver responde to a unix-signal to reload it's files (currently it's just killed and restarted)