Long overdue update

Author: sciurus

conferences.yml

@@ -4,27 +4,23 @@
   description: '@Scale is a series of technical conferences for engineers who build or maintain systems that are designed for scale. Building applications and services that scale to millions or even billions of people presents a complex set of engineering challenges, many of them unprecedented. The @Scale community is focused on bringing people together to openly discuss these challenges and collaborate on the development of new solutions.'
 
 - name: Atmosphere
-  url: http://2016.atmosphere-conference.com/
+  url: http://2017.atmosphere-conference.com/
   description: The conference is addressed to everyone who works and lives in the Internet environment and faces the challenge of integrating the work of project managers, programmers, web developers and content managers. The dynamic growth of e-business requires the continuous improvement of web stability and web performance knowledge. There is no better way to avoid mistakes than the exchange of experiences between people that solve similar problems. Our aim is to deliver this knowledge with the help of Polish and international leaders in the field.
+  occurences:
+    - start_date: 2017-05-16
+      end_date: 2017-05-17
+      location: Portland, OR
 
 - name: AutomaCon
   url: http://www.automacon.io/
   description: Modern DevOps concerns have evolved to encompass more holistic approaches to infrastructure automation. AutomaCon will gather the leading minds and practitioners in the DevOps community together to exchange ideas, with the goal of updating and unifying the industry's definition of "Infrastructure as Code". We will draw on the experiences of those who have stories to share, learn about new tooling & workflows, and identify vendor-agnostic best practices.
-  occurences:
-    - start_date: 2016-09-27
-      end_date: 2016-09-29
-      location: Portland, OR
 
 - name: Config Management Camp
   url: http://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/
   description: ConfigManagementCamp is the event for people interested in open source configuration management to meet each other. ConfigManagementCamp will be the event where different communities will meet and exchange ideas both internally and within the broader community.
-  occurences:
-      - start_date: 2016-11-15
-        end_date: 2016-11-15
-        location: Berlin, Germany
 
 - name: DevOpsDays
-  url: http://www.devopsdays.org/
+  url: https://www.devopsdays.org/
   description: The conference that brings development and operations together.
   occurences:
       - start_date: Not Listed
@@ -34,14 +30,14 @@
 - name: DevSecCon
   url: http://www.devseccon.com/
   description: We're bringing together DevOps and SecOps in a unique conference that’s run by practitioners, for practitioners. This is your chance to learn from key industry figures, meet with your peers and hear how DevOps and SecOps work together in the real world.
-  occurences:
-      - start_date: 2016-10-20
-        end_date: 2016-10-20
-        location: London, United Kingdom
 
 - name: dotScale
-  url: http://www.dotscale.io/
+  url: https://www.dotscale.io/
   description: dotScale is a unique tech conference on Scalability, DevOps and Distributed Systems. Our mission is to invite the best hackers worldwide to share their insights on stage!
+  occurences:
+    - start_date: 2017-04-24
+      end_date: 2017-04-24
+      location: Paris, France
 
 - name: Flowcon
   url: http://flowcon.org/
@@ -50,74 +46,96 @@
 - name: Gluecon
   url: http://gluecon.com/
   description: Gluecon covers topics like NoSQL, APIs, Node.js, HTML5, Backend-as-a-Service, cloud management and security, cloud storage, Hadoop, DevOps, Mobile App development, cloud platforms, and many, many others.
+  occurences:
+    - start_date: 2017-05-24
+      end_date: 2016-05-25
+      location: Broomfield, CO
 
 - name: Large Installation System Administration Conference
   url: https://www.usenix.org/conferences/byname/5
   description: LISA is the premier conference for IT operations, where systems engineers, operations professionals, and academic researchers share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.
   occurences:
-    - start_date: 2016-12-04
-      end_date: 2016-12-09
-      location: Boston, MA
+    - start_date: 2017-10-29
+      end_date: 2017-11-03
+      location: San Francisco, CA
 
 - name: Monitorama
   url: http://monitorama.com/
   description: An open source monitoring conference and hackathon.
   occurences:
-      - start_date: 2016-06-27
-        end_date: 2016-06-29
+      - start_date: 2017-05-22
+        end_date: 2017-05-24
         location: Portland, OR
 
 - name: Operability.IO
   url: http://operability.io/
   description: Come and learn from your peers how new processes, tools and techniques are changing IT Operations forever.
+  occurences:
+      - start_date: 2017-10-10
+        end_date: 2017-10-11
+        location: London, UK
 
 - name: OSCON
-  url: http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/open-source-us
+  url: https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-tx
   description: OSCON celebrates, defines, and demonstrates the power of open source in the world today.
+  occurences:
+      - start_date: 2017-05-10
+        end_date: 2017-05-11
+        location: Austin, TX
 
 - name: PIPELINE
   url: https://web.pipelineconf.info/about/
   description: PIPELINE is an annual not-for-profit one day conference focussed on Continuous Delivery.
+  occurences:
+      - start_date: 2017-03-21
+        end_date: 2017-03-21
+        location: London, UK
 
 - name: QCon
   url: https://qconsf.com/
   description: QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.
   occurences:
-    - start_date: 2016-11-07
-      end_date: 2016-11-11
+    - start_date: 2017-04-25
+      end_date: 2017-04-26
+      location: Sai Paulo, Brazil
+    - start_date: 2017-06-29
+      end_date: 2017-06-30
+      location: New York City, NY
+    - start_date: 2017-11-16
+      end_date: 2017-11-17
       location: San Francisco, CA
 
 - name: Rootconf
   url: https://rootconf.in/2016/
   description: Rootconf will help you to plan and develop a strategy map for infrastructure and devops. It will show you the building blocks for reaching a strategy for Infrastructure Scaling, Continuous Integration, Deployment and Delivery.
-  occurences:
-      - start_date: 2017-05-11
-        end_date: 2017-05-12
-        location: Bandalore, India
 
 - name: ScaleConf
   url: http://scaleconf.org/
   description: Each year ScaleConf brings international and local experts together to talk about their experience building sites and services that can handle the rigours of today's internet. 
+  occurences:
+    - start_date: 2017-03-09
+      end_date: 2017-03-10
+      location: Cape Town, South Africa
 
 - name: Scale Summit
   url: http://www.scalesummit.org/
   description: Scale Summit is an annual unconference event, bringing together professionals from the operations and software development communities who have a particular interest in scalable, high performance systems. 
+  occurences:
+    - start_date: 2017-03-24
+      end_date: 2017-03-24
+      location: London, UK
 
 - name: Software Circus
   url: http://cloudnativecomputing.softwarecircus.io/
   description: Conference about Cloud Native Computing.
-  occurences:
-    - start_date: 2016-08-31
-      end_date: 2016-09-02
-      location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
 
 - name: Surge
-  url: http://surge.omniti.com/2015
+  url: https://go.omniti.com/surge/
   description: The Surge Conference is the place where Web Infrastructure and Scalability experts gather, advance and emerge. It is where you can access the people and ideas that matter most to your company and career.
   occurences:
-    - start_date: 2016-09-21
-      end_date: 2016-09-23
-      location: National Harbor, MD
+    - start_date: 2017-09-21
+      end_date: 2017-09-23
+      location: Washington, DC
 
 - name: USENIX Configuration Management Summit
   url: https://www.usenix.org/conferences/byname/714
@@ -130,17 +148,27 @@
 - name: USENIX SREcon
   url: https://www.usenix.org/conferences/byname/925
   description: Two days of highly technical subjects around site reliability and production systems at scale.
+  occurences:
+    - start_date: 2017-04-13
+      end_date: 2017-03-14
+      location: San Francisco, CA
+    - start_date: 2017-05-22
+      end_date: 2017-05-24
+      location: Singapore
+    - start_date: 2017-08-30
+      end_date: 2017-09-01
+      location: Dublin, Ireland
 
 - name: Velocity
-  url: http://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity
+  url: https://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity
   description: A Conference for Web Operations, End-to-End Optimization, IT as a Business Driver, Ubiquitous Delivery for all including Mobile Platforms, Deliberately Unstable Systems & Performance
   occurences:
-    - start_date: 2016-09-19
-      end_date: 2016-09-22
-      location: New York, NY
-    - start_date: 2016-11-07
-      end_date: 2016-11-09
-      location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
     - start_date: 2017-06-19
       end_date: 2017-06-22
-      location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
+      location: San Jose, CA
+    - start_date: 2017-10-01
+      end_date: 2017-10-04
+      location: New York, NY
+    - start_date: 2017-10-18
+      end_date: 2017-10-20
+      location: London, UK