Geek Night Gurgaon

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Development

Using nanoc for static site generation. Jekyll/Octopress are hard-coded for blogging, while Nanoc is much simpler, doesn't take any assumptions and allows to build whatever type of content (not just blogs).

To start developing,

Clone this repository
Forget about whatever present in the root folder
Worry only about the content folder
Run bundle install. You'll need RVM + Ruby 2.0
Make changes (see below folder structure and steps to add a new event). Mostly you'll be dealing with content
Run bundle exec nanoc to compile the website
Run bundle exec nanoc view to start a server and browse to localhost:3000

For ease, there is a Guardfile. You can run bundle exec guard, it will keep watching for changes and re-compile the site whenever any file is changed.

Folders of interest

content - this is the main source code, rest are all generated source code that can be ignored
content/assets - contains all assets
content/assets/app.sass - contains the main stylesheet
content/assets/img/speakers - contains speaker images
content/index.html - content for current geek night
layouts - layouts for default and archive versions
Rules - routing rules

Adding a new event

Rename the current index.html (in content folder) file to the year-month format for the last event. Eg, if the event happened in August 2021, rename the index.html to 2021-08.html
Create a new index.html file with the new event details. For format/fields refer to the previous html file. Update the edition, date/time, registration link and the talk details.
Run bundle exec nanoc to compile the website
Run bundle exec nanoc view to start a server and browse to localhost:3000

Front-End Development

Pure HTML/CSS/Javascript website. No JQuery.
Used HTML5 Boilerplate to generate the skeleton.
Used colourlovers.com for the color swatches.
Using SASS and Foundation for all the Styling.
Icon fonts were generated and downloaded from Fontello. Only icons from the Modern Pictogram set were used for consistency.

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