myusuf3 / pyladies

PyLadies is a group of women who use and love the Python programming language. Our goal is to expand the local Python community to be 50% women.

Overview

This is the source code for the http://pyladies.com/ website. It uses mynt, a static site generator.

Directory Layout

This is a general overview of the top-level directory structure. The things that aren't labeled contain content for the website.

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├── CodeOfConduct
├── _assets        # javascript and CSS stuff goes here
├── _posts         # these are the blog posts written in markdown
├── _templates     # these are the base templates that other things use.
├── about
├── archives
├── blog
├── locations
├── resources
└── sponsor

To run locally

1. Fork http://github.com/pyladies/pyladies to your own github account.
2. Clone to your machine
3. Create a virtualenv called PyLadies
4. (PyLadies) $ pip install -r requirements.txt
5. (PyLadies) $ mynt gen -f _site && mynt serve _site

• How to fork and clone: https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo
• How to create a virtualenv: http://simononsoftware.com/virtualenv-tutorial/

Note: It is important that when you create your virtualenv, do not create it in the same folder as the code you downloaded. The reason is that mynt will search the current directory for files to build and it looks for all folders that don't start with an underscore (which means it will find your virtualenv folder and error out).

To write a blog post

See CONTRIBUTING.md for instructions and guidelines.

For Organizers

Your own domain/site:

You are welcome to create your own location's webspace, e.g. seattle.pyladies.com or sea.pyladies.com, or even www.pyladies.com/seattle etc. If you want your own URL, tell me:

1. what you want your URL to be.
2. make a pull request for your site.
3. when you want it to go live.

If you just tell me your URL I can put dummy data - e.g. your location info etc, if you want to take your time to work on your own site.

Suggestions:

• Play with the Meetup API to show your upcoming events, number of members, etc
• Play with the Twitter API to show your group's latest tweets
• A chapter blog
• anything!

I really don't mind if you want to do a whole different design that doesn't match w/ the current homepage. Maybe keep it as mynt though

• but your choice completely.

-your friendly administrator.