What's shipped, what's in progress, and what's planned for this website. Each version below maps to a release on GitHub; the in-flight ones show live progress from their issue milestones.
Last updated 21 August 2026
The Google Form board pipeline went live, and the People and Initiative pages were rebuilt around their data.
The EISS brand identity replaced the placeholder mark across the site, and the Initiative page grew into a full founding story.
An archive disclaimer ribbon on past-event pages, a translation-ribbon fix, and post-release housekeeping.
The ESSC 2026 programme grid gained co-authors and livestream pills, the printed programme was overhauled, and the conference archive filled out.
The pre-conference release: site-wide search, a public roadmap and a press kit, the whole interface pulled onto one brand blue with redesigned share cards, a markedly better mobile experience, and the ESSC 2026 run-up (countdown, downloadable programmes, add-to-calendar links).
The 9th Annual European Security Studies Conference at Stockholm University. The flagship gathering of the year; the website is the canonical entry point for new arrivals.
The European Security Studies Anthology becomes the site's flagship at /anthology, the single home for every paper and every scholar across nine editions, carried in the main navigation and linked out to the NetSec member directory. Members' own published research gains its own page at /publications, and a round of polish runs through the navigation, the share cards, the Initiative page and the board.
The Anthology Atlas maps the whole conference corpus as an interactive graph, by paper and by co-authorship. Abstract recovery reaches back into the pre-Indico editions and the Anthology now shows coverage per year. Also in this cycle: the internship page, the Global Risks 2026 survey wave, the leadership announcement, and the ESSC 2027 announcement once date and venue firm up.
The French Anthology leaves beta on a declared scope: the interface, the seventeen theme labels, and the abstracts of papers with at least one French-affiliated author, with a check that fails when an entry in scope loses its translation. The corpus gains an analytical export for research use, covering affiliation shares by country, thematic distribution and co-authorship, with author affiliations matched to the standard registry of research organisations and the theme vocabulary published in a form other projects can cite. The accessibility work carries through to a declaration against the French RGAA standard, and an annual French-language note on the corpus rounds out the release. The next conference opens in the same window: the edition is settled and entered in the conference data, the 2027 page is published to carry the call for papers, and the prize jury is confirmed in time for it.
Accepted papers become the programme for the next edition, with the keynote announced alongside it and the practical information written around what is actually arranged. The page agrees with the live programme NetSec renders from the same source.
The tenth annual conference, two days of panels and roundtables, run jointly with the COST Action NetSec and the host university. The organising group confirms the dates and the venue in September 2026.
After the conference the edition moves into the archive on its own, and the abstracts are pulled from Indico so its papers read as fully as the earlier editions. The next year's page is parked ready at the same time.
Blocked: this Indico build doesn't expose registration-form state on the public or authenticated API, so the status pill stays a manual override.
Reusing the live programme sync on the sister NetSec site. Waiting on coordination with the NetSec maintainers.
A few contradictory dates and narratives across the older archive pages. Needs source research before any contested fact is edited.
Ideas held back without a trigger: custom-domain board emails, a self-hosted newsletter, a multi-author CMS, analytics (the no-analytics stance is deliberate), and a multi-page member directory.
Spotted something missing, or have an idea? The roadmap is public and so is the backlog.