Colloq

Meet the Organizers!

Event organisers have a tough job. They spend hundreds of hours and a lot of energy into organising an event, but are rarely known personally by the attendees. Since we’re all about connecting people, we want to give our users the possibility to get to know the people doing all the hard work…

Best Practices for Call for Papers

When running a Call for Papers for your next conference, it’s important to get potential speakers interested and to receive the best responses for your event to choose from. To improve the submissions you’ll receive and to limit the administrative work that comes with…

What’s new: Bugfixes, Accessibility Improvements & Blog Categories

In Sprint 47 we focused on solving a couple of bugs, improve the accessibility of our platform and added categories to our blog.

Accessibility Improvements

Better Feedback for Talk Proposals

The web and tech conference scene has grown a lot and so has the amount of speakers who have something to share. This is a great development and for many people a conference isn’t far away anymore.

What’s New in July

We continue to work on Colloq almost every day and currently focus on some bigger updates which require a good amount of planning first. We started work on one of them and a second one will hopefully follow right after. We’re sure you’ll love the things to come. But now for what we’ve done in…

The Tools We Use To Stay Afloat

Like many people we’re used to working with Jira and other big tools for project management. These tools work quite well for large projects and teams. But at Colloq where…

Auto-Resizing Textareas with ECMAScript 6

We recently added auto-resizing textarea elements to our service and here’s how we managed to do that with just a few lines of code in JavaScript.

ES6 Classes

What‘s New: Improved Event Suggestion Handling and Subscription Feature Explanations

Every week we are working to improve the overall experience on Colloq, fix bugs and add new features. Since some of these changes aren‘t visible right away, we like to publish what we…

Remote Managing A Side-Project Across The Globe

At Colloq, we are three freelancers with a regular project workload. We’re distributed across the globe. This article is about how we now manage to work…