2.1.2 | Final Release

Hi all,

This is the last iteration of the WAC 2017 website. It has a few content updates, but I won't detail them here. Check them out at #34 .

Thank you for supporting WAC 2017, and we'll work on making a more awesome conference and website next year!

2.1.1 | Minor Content Updates, Rake + Bundle, Accessibility

This is just a small update that provides more minor content fixes, updates our build system to effectively use Rake and Bundle, and does an accessibility passover to be compliant with html-proofer. Check out #24 for more info!

2.1.0 | Flexbox and Content Updates

Hey there,

It's a new year, and that means some new-years cleanup and optimization for the WAC website! In this update, we bring more content about the conference, such as plenary information and more FAQs, to make registering and learning more about the conference easier. In addition, we move most of our layout to Flexbox, which means that our layout can look more spiffy and be more responsive on different viewports. Unfortunately, that means officially dropping IE9 and other non-flexbox compliant browsers, but the registration system will still support those browsers for clarity.

If you'd like to read a changelog, check out Pull Request #19 for more information.

Thanks for supporting us so far, and we'll see you at WAC!

2.0.0 | Publish!

Woohoo, we're going live! Nothing has changed since our last alpha.3, so you can read that changelog. In comparison to all v1.-- branches, check out #18 for more information.

Thanks for supporting us so far, and big thanks to everybody for helping us out!

2.0.0-alpha.3 | Build Scripts, Content, and Layout!

Hello friends, after some hard work the WAC dev team is almost done all of our website work! In this release, we utilize build scripts to make our repository smaller, add a lot more content, and re-jig a few layout elements that weren't looking right. This is the final alpha before we go public. Here are the changes:

Changelog

• Swaps to using build scripts (setup.sh, start.sh, and build.sh) to assist with downloading files and allowing more customization with compiling.
• Adds most of the content for plenaries, panels, and keynote.
• Changes all of plenary layout to be more concise and less image heavy.
• Completes FAQ Content.
• Semi-Completes Meet the Team Content.
• Removes How-To-Register and other reg-related files; that will be moved to the reg repo.
• Fixes Navbar layout
• General HTML and CSS cleanup.

Hopefully the full site should come out soon. Until then!

2.0.0-alpha.2 | Brushing Up on WAC Website Layout

Hello friends, we're back again with another release of the WAC Website, to prep for content we're receiving from the plenary and operations areas of WAC. In this one, we complete all of the required layout (minus schedule), so we're ready to start putting in content on the website. In addition, we cleaned up the file directory, and dropped the reg and blog portions (the former is on a different repo, the later we couldn't support) from the website. Here's an overview of the changes:

Changelog

• Completed Layout for all required sites (Plenaries, Panels, Keynote, About, FAQ, Team, Contact) except schedule
• Updated stylesheet to SASS and condensed CSS
• Updates dependencies (Bootstrap and Font Awesome)
• Removed unneeded files (especially Jekyll-generated SASS and HTML)
• Drops Blog and Reg templates and pages from the site/repo
• Updates logo and favicon to new WAC Logo

Thanks for reading through all of this! Have fun, and we'll see you at WAC!

2.0.0-alpha.1 | Jekyll Implementation of WAC 2017 Website

Hello Geniuses! We're back at WAC again, except we're going to make the website better than ever. We have some pretty radical changes, but they're not completely done yet. Here's what we have for now, up until the meeting on May 20th:

Changelog

Overview

• Writes basic CSS and theming for the website (but no pre-compiled Bootstrap just yet!)
• Uses Jekyll to generate static site pages (plenaries for now)
• Creates blog and reg standalone portions of the website
• Creates basic homepage
• Creates plenary generator (but no content just yet)

Layout

• Creates basic CSS templates, uses Bootstrap 4.0.0-alpha2, Font Awesome, the Nexa Font, and a few other tidbits from last year's website.
• Implements Jekyll static-site generator
• Creates default Jekyll layouts (default, post, blog-post, reg, plenary, speaker)
• Creates several _includes templates (blog, reg, and default headers; blog and default navbars; footer)
• Configures config.yml to include blogurl and regurl, for future uses of blog.world.ac and reg.world.ac
• Fleshes out plenary rendering system (using the plenary layout, requires several different properties in headers)
• Creates sample plenary information

Blog

• Creates blog subdirectory
• Creates blog substyling
• Creates sample blog pages (about, team) and sample blog post

Reg

• Creates sample reg front page

Thanks for reading through all of this! Have fun, and we'll see you at WAC!

1.2.1: WAC 2016 Final Site

It was a good time.

Changelog

General

• Adds alert
• Adds nametag support

1.2.0: Finishes Up Content, Adds Plenary Selection, Starts Python Scripts for Plenary Algorithms

Changelog for v1.2.0

General

• Fills out Keynote Speaker Information
• Finishes up plenary information
• Finishes up Schedule
• Adds Alert notifying visitors of keynote speaker
• Tidies up footer

Plenary Selection (UCC)

• Creates plenary_selection folder with four choosing options
• Creates database tie-in to record results
• Adds somewhat buggy anti-dupe selection process

Plenary Selection and Assignment (Scripts)

• Finishes plenary processing script (inputs are csvs, outputs all data choices + exceptions)
• Adds assets for nametag printing
• Begins work on plenary_assignment script

1.1.0: New Footer, Schedule in Beta, Codebase Standardization

Changelog for v1.1.0

General Changes

• General Codebase standardization, including indenting, usage of syntax, and placement of divs.
• Comments base.css and removes redundant references.
• Removes Bootstrap-Theme references (as it is obsolete now)
• Wraps up plenary page completion
• Adds plenary images/speaker bios, with 90% completion.
• Adds Opening and Closing Panel Pages, including content and pictures.
• Changes PHPmyadmin hooking for new VPS
• Adds navbar collapse on scroll, using nav-collapse.js and jquery's easing
• Changes FAQ to use collapsing panels instead of messy walls of text
• Removes sidebar nav for FAQ
• Welcome section in navbar now properly displays name

New Footer

• New footer no longer uses a fixed, inverted bottom-of-page navbar; uses imported div section instead.
• Footer includes full-site page list, retains made-by section, and adds more information
• Footer now includes privacy terms that are agreed to on website visit.

New Schedule Page

• Implements new Schedule of Keynote Address and Conference Day (in test folder)
• Uses popovers to display information
• Fills all non-speaker related information of Keynote Address
• Fills all non-plenary information of Conference Day