• Python = 2.7.0 (? >=)
• Django = 1.6.8
• Pillow >= 2.4.0

The app was tested with the versions above, but older versions might also work.

1. install python, pip, virtualenv

in case python2.7 is not your default use: export VIRTUALENV_PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2.7

3.1) check out the follwoing ... somewhere

https://github.com/ForumDev/forumdev.git
https://github.com/ForumDev/djangocms-publications.git
https://github.com/ForumDev/aldryn-blog.git

3.2) create a symlink from djangocms-publications/publications and aldryn-blog/aldryn-blog to forumdev/.

(examples in repo)

3. virtualenv fdenv

4. source fdenv/bin/activate

you can use deactivate to leave the virtual env.

5.a) get the requirements.txt from the repo

this setup uses postgres database, make sure the following packages are installed:

libpq-dev python-dev and postgresql postgresql-contrib for the postgres server

5.b) pip install -r requirements.txt

7. edit forumdev/settings.py and setup DATABASES (at the end of the file)

8. python manage.py syncdb

9. python manage.py migrate

10. python manage.py createsuperuser

11. make sure that the media folder is writeable by the webserver user

run server: python manage.py runserver

access on localhost:8000

append ?edit to url to login

setup froumdev the way you like with the custom usermodel

since no page fixtures exist yet...

create page "Home"

go to structure mode

top right 'sponsors' placeholder, add sponsors plugin

'content' placeholder, add sliders plugin

'content' placeholder, add multi-column: 2 / 50% first column add categories plugin, select collab second column add categories plugin, select workshops

Add page "Publications" -> save and continue editing -> advanced settings -> app hook-> publications

publish publications page

restart server

thanks for all these great resources out there I tried

be sure to notice that this is a work in progress