rachitmehrotra / aakashlabs

Source code of aakashlabs.in/.org in Python-django

aakashlabs

An official site for Aakash tablet. (Now in Python-django)

Clone

• Clone this repository

  git clone https://github.com/psachin/aakashlabs.git
      

Usage

• Install dependency using virtualenv. To know more about virtualenv visit this link.

  pip install -r requirements.txt
  
      

  or

  easy_install `cat requirements.txt`
      

  should also work instead of `pip`.

Deploy

Using Apache and mod_wsgi

• Install Apache WSGI module mod_wsgi
• Configure Apache(TODO)
• Configure Django WSGI(TODO)
• Install dependencies (for MySQL)

  CentOS

  sudo yum install python-devel
  sudo yum install mysql-devel
      

  Ubuntu-12.04

  sudo apt-get install python-dev
  sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
      

• Collect all static files.

python manage.py collectstatic

This will collect all the static files(including admin CSS/JS) and copy them to aakashlabs/aakashlabs/static.

• Restart the server

  sudo service httpd restart
      

Populate database

• populate_al.py will create an Admin user and populates the database.
• And run the script

  python populate_al.py
      

  It will prompt for admin password.

  Alternately you can run

  python manage.py syncdb
      

  and insert data using the ‘admin’ interface.

• Finally run development server

  python manage.py runserver
      

Other files

• rc_parser.py: Parses rc.csv and create two files, ac_list.py and coordinators_list.py.
• ac_list.py: Python dictionary contains Aakash centers list.
• coordinators_list.py: Python dictionary contains Aakash center coordinators information.
• project_parser.py: Parses projects.csv and creates project_list.py.
• project_list.py: Contains all project detail.

How to Contribute?

• Please create a separate branch(with appropriate name) and send pull request.
• Your branch name should be specific to your changes/features. Say for example if you added a new view & a template to show project details, name it as new_project_template.
• Your code and changes should be properly commented.
• Don’t change models. If you feel that it is a necessity, please raise an issue first. Let others know why you feel it is important(Others work may be based of present model and your change will screw their work.)
• I like small & specific changes. So don’t send variety of changes in one go.

License

• See COPYING