isabella232 / staging.summit.haxe.org

Haxe Summit Website Generator

Building

• You need Haxe and Haxelib.
• Install the dependencies with haxelib install generate.hxml.
• Generate the website using haxe generate.hxml.

The website is now available in the out/ folder, you can launch it with nekotools server -d out and access it at http://localhost:2000/.

Adding a new event

• Create a folder eventId/ in data/.
• Add the header's background image in data/eventId/images/background.jpg.
• Edit data/current.txt to eventId if you wish to make the event the default one when accessing the root url.

Configuration

Create the file data/eventId/config.json with the following content:

• address: The event's venue's address.
• earlyBirdEndDate: The end date for the early bird tickets.
• eventBriteId: The eventbrite event id.
• dates: The event dates, month start-end.
• mapUrl: Iframe url for the venu map.
• price: Full ticket price, including the money symbol.
• speakingLink: Link where to apply for a talk.
• speakingOpen: Can people still apply for a talk.
• stage: The current stage: "EarlyPlanning", "TicketsOpen", "TicketsClosed", "EventOngoing" or "EventConcluded".
• town: The venue's town name.
• year: The event year.
• zone: The event zone, eg US, EU...

Index sections

Create the following files to add their content into the corresponding index section:

• data/eventId/content/intro.md
• data/eventId/content/speakup.md
• data/eventId/content/travel.md

News

The news are stored in data/eventId/news.json, the empty file should be [].

To add an entry add at the beginning (the news need to be manually sorted anti-chronogically):

{
	"date": "the date when adding the entry",
	"title: "the link's text",
	"url": "Optional: the link's url"
}

Adding a speaker

Edit data/eventId/speakers.json and add an entry:

{
	"id": "The speaker's id used as url and when linking the talks",
	"image": "The speaker's photo filename",
	"name": "The speaker's name",
	"title": "The speaker's title",
	"bio": "Short description about the speaker"
}

If the file doesn't exist the starting content should be [].

Add the speaker's photo in data/eventId/images/speakers/$image.

Adding a talk

Add a file named id.md in data/eventId/talks.

The first part of the file contains the talk metadata:

speaker: The speaker's id
title: The talk's title
description: Short description about the talk
---

The rest of the file contains the full length description of the talk, in markdown format.