Source files for the BMD 2023 conference website.

Editing Guide

• The website is built using Pelican. Review the Pelican documentation to get familiar with how to create pages and articles.
• The source files are in the git branch called master. This is the default branch of the repository. The HTML files are generated on Github actions via https://github.com/nelsonjchen/gh-pages-pelican-action and pushed to the gh-pages branch, which is automatically served to http://mechmotum.github.io/bmd2023. Don't manually edit files in the gh-pages branch (except if a special need arises).
• All articles, pages, and similar content should be written in reStructuredText. See the Sphinx reStructuredText primer to learn the syntax.
• All changes, in general, should be submitted as Github pull requests. Don't commit directly to the master branch. Doing so will ensure that the website is at least built with no errors on the CI service.
• Binary Assets such as images, videos, etc should be served from an external hosting site. Ask Jason about using his Dreamhost DreamObject bucket. He'll set it up for multi-user access when needed. Do not commit binary assets to this repository. Images should be all lower case unique filenames with a - to separate words, for example: my-image-for-this-blog-post.png. All assets are store in the same directory on the object store and should have unique file names.

Building Locally

It is good practice to build the documentation locally so that you can review change before submitting a pull request.

Install pelican with conda (or pip if you prefer):

$ conda install pelican beautifulsoup4

Clone the plugin repository:

$ git clone [email protected]:getpelican/pelican-plugins.git

Note the path to the plugin repository, e.g.:

/home/my_username/.../pelican-plugins

Clone the theme repository (you want the mechmotum branch to be active):

$ git clone -b mechmotum [email protected]:mechmotum/pelican-alchemy.git

Note the path to the theme, e.g.:

/home/my_username/.../pelican-alchemy

Clone this repository and change into the new directory:

$ git clone [email protected]:mechmotum/bmd2023.git
$ cd bmd2023/

Create a configuration file called config.yml and add the full path to where you installed the plugins and theme (note the added /alchemy subfolder in THEME_PATH):

$ echo "THEME_PATH: /home/my_username/.../pelican-alchemy/alchemy" > config.yml
$ echo "PLUGIN_PATHS: /home/my_username/.../pelican-plugins" >> config.yml

Now you can build and serve the documentation with:

$ make devserver

If this succeeds you can open the website in your web browser at http://localhost:8000.

While the server is running you can change the website source files and they will be build automatically. Refresh your web browser to view the changes.

To stop the web server type:

$ make stopserver

LICENSE

This repository is licensed under the CC-BY 4.0 license.