Feature: Add talks language support, filters and API about confs.tech HOT 5 OPEN

Hi @lekzd and thank you for your suggestion. It seems like a good idea.
What about, instead of storing cfpLanguages, we only ask if the conference is English speaking or local to the country?

From what I see, most of the conferences are in English: meaning, talks (thus, cfps) will be done in English for maximum audience. And some conferences are held in their local language (relative to the country). So, technically, if we know it's not in English, it will be by default in the local language of the country.

This might be tricky for countries with multiple local languages. 😬

What do you think?

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@nimzco looks reasonable, but we have three different cases:

1. English only
2. English + local
3. local only

For the first one attribute can be blank, for another ones needs to specify: 'EN, ES' or 'ES' for non-english conferences.

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English + local, do you have examples for this? 🤔

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@nimzco yes:
for example search for any conference in Ukraine (OdessaJS CFP for example https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQqU4iM-vBx6VRWHQcE1zKh3LW4KZ5231Oe0dQx-neBrrc3g/viewform?fbzx=3988457983402795241)

• All talks are in either English, Ukrainian or Russian

Same situation goes for almost all conferences in Belarus, Russia, Armenia (2—3 languages) or Latin America (English or/and Spanish)

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I've started tracking conference languages: #545
This will inform both CFP and people looking for conferences.

Let's get data on upcoming conferences and I'll show the field on the frontend :)

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