CFP Radar

AI-powered webpage generator to discover and track tech events with CFP opportunities for the TSD organization.

See it live on: https://redhat-appstudio.github.io/cfp-radar/

Setup

Install uv on your Fedora or macOS via brew or via curl:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

# Install dependencies
uv sync

# Set required environment variables for Claude on Vertex AI
export GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT="your-project"
# Or: export ANTHROPIC_VERTEX_PROJECT_ID="your-project"
export GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION="global"
export AI_MODEL="claude-sonnet-4-6"
gcloud auth application-default login

You need the roles/aiplatform.user role on the GCP project. Claude web search also requires the constraints/vertexai.allowedPartnerModelFeatures org policy to allow web search. Collection works without GCP credentials when using --no-ai.

See Claude on Vertex AI and Vertex AI pricing for details.

Set export SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL="your-webhook-url" if you plan to use Slack notifications.

Configuration

Cities to track are configured in config.yaml in the project root:

cities:
  - city: Paris
    country: France
  - city: Bangalore
    country: India
  - city: Pune
    country: India
  - city: Tel Aviv
    country: Israel
  - city: Raleigh
    country: USA
  - city: Brno
    country: Czech Republic

You can override the default config file using the --config argument:

uv run cfp-radar collect --config my-cities.yaml
uv run cfp-radar list --config my-cities.yaml

If config.yaml is not found, the tool falls back to built-in defaults.

Usage

# Collect events and generate HTML (default: data/index.html)
uv run cfp-radar collect

# Collect events to custom output file
uv run cfp-radar collect ./output/events.html

# Collect without AI-powered search (faster)
uv run cfp-radar collect --no-ai

# List collected events
uv run cfp-radar list

# List events filtered by city
uv run cfp-radar list --city Paris

# List only events with open CFP
uv run cfp-radar list --cfp

# Send Slack notifications for upcoming CFP deadlines
uv run cfp-radar notify

Output

The collect command generates a static HTML file at data/index.html by default. Open this file in a browser to view events.

Abstract Bank

The abstracts/ directory contains a shared bank of speaker-neutral, reusable talk proposals. Anyone on the team can pick one up, adapt it to a specific event, and submit.

Each abstract includes:

• YAML frontmatter (tags, formats, difficulty, target audience)
• A 200-300 word abstract text
• Talk outline with timing for multiple formats (lightning, talk, deep-dive, workshop)
• Key takeaways
• Adaptation notes — hints on how to tailor per event type

Adding a new abstract

Copy abstracts/_template.md, fill it in, open a PR.

Current abstracts

Title	Tags	Formats	Status
From SLSA Level 2 to Level 3: The Hard Parts	supply-chain, slsa, tekton-chains	talk, deep-dive	ready
Signing Everything: Making Supply Chain Security Invisible	supply-chain, DX, sigstore	talk, lightning	ready
Building Golden Paths with Tekton: CI/CD as a Platform Service	platform-engineering, multi-tenancy	talk, deep-dive, workshop	ready
CI/CD for AI: When Your Artifact Is a Model, Not a Binary	ai, mlops, eu-ai-act	talk, deep-dive	ready
AI-Assisted CI/CD: Using LLMs to Debug and Generate Pipelines	ai, llm, developer-experience	talk, lightning	draft
Death by a Thousand Reconciles — Performance at Scale	performance, kubernetes-operators, observability	talk, deep-dive	ready
12 CVEs and Counting — CNCF Project Security Lifecycle	security, cve, vulnerability-management	talk, deep-dive	ready
Your Pipeline Has the Keys — A Live Security Walkthrough	security, supply-chain, slsa, demo	talk	ready
Eating Our Own Dogfood — A Workflow Engine's Automation Story	open-source, ci-cd, dogfooding	talk	ready
The PVC Must Die — Rethinking Data Sharing with Trusted Artifacts	architecture, kubernetes, storage, supply-chain	talk	ready
From One Cluster to Many — Tekton + Kueue Multi-Cluster Pipelines	multi-cluster, kueue, scheduling	talk, deep-dive	ready
Beyond Pipeline Runs — A Supply Chain Ledger with ORAS	supply-chain, slsa, oras, oci	talk, deep-dive	ready

Copyright

Apache-2.0

Authors

Chmouel Boudjnah

• Fediverse - <@chmouel@chmouel.com>
• Twitter - <@chmouel>
• Blog - <https://blog.chmouel.com>