HackCU events website.

Features

• Automatically updated webcalendar (ICS format)
• Add/Remove events
• Automatic recognition of past events
• Easy footer and header customization

Run project

Needs: Ruby

Local

1. Clone repository to your computer with git clone https://github.com/hackcu/events
2. cd into your repository
3. gem install jekyll
4. jekyll serve --watch

Deploy

1. Activate GitHub pages for repo on master branch
2. Push changes to master
3. There's no 3

Deployment is done automatically by GitHub pages. You don't need to do anything else than pushing to master.

Personalization

Add an event

1. Go to _data/events.yml
2. Copy and paste the following text

- name: Startups2Students Fall #Event name
  light_background: True # Optional: only put if image-url is set and image is light
  image-url: assets/img/startups2students.png # Optional: only if you want a preview image in the heading
  line: Bridging the gap between students and startups # Small description of event
  date: 2017-10-19 6:00 PM # Optional: When is the event starting
  end-date: 2017-10-19 8:00 PM # Optional: When is the event ending, make sure you set it if date is set
  location: Idea Forge # Optional: Location where the event will be celebrated, set TBD if not sure yet
  url: https://startups2students.org # Optional: Url with more info about the event

3. Edit the properties as described in the text you just copied

If you need a preview image please add it to assets/img/.

Add/change footer links

You can change footer links by editing the file _data/footer_links.yml

Global variables

You can change various strings across the site, including the title of your app on _config.yml

Theme variables

Main colors can be changed on _config.yml. For more "deep" styling, you can edit all styling in assets/css/main.scss

License

MIT © HackCU