NodeSchool NYC

Welcome to the NodeSchool San Francisco chapter's repository. We use this repository for our website and almost all our communication.

You can see the website here: http://nodeschool.io/nyc

Talk to us

We utilize GitHub Issues like a message board and keep almost all of our communication in the open. If for any reason you need to contact an organizer privately you may contact us directly.

Team

Franziska Hinkelmann: GitHub, Twitter
Joe Sepi: GitHub, Twitter
Tierney Cyren: GitHub, Twitter
John Elliott: GitHub, Twitter

Contributing to the website

The website is generated using Mustache templates, Stylus, and JavaScript. It runs on GitHub Pages – pull requests welcome!

Running locally

Fork the repository
Clone your fork to a local folder: git clone <fork url here>
cd into your project folder.
Run npm install to install dependencies.

For a development server, run

$ npm run docs:dev

Now you can visit http://localhost:8080/ in your browser to see the website.

Important: edit files inside the directory docs-src. Files are compiled into the docs folder. Changes will be compiled automatically by the npm run docs:dev command.

Special thanks

Gautam Arora and the rest of the NYC JavaScript team + community for maintaining the NodeSchool NYC meetup previously.
NodeSchool SF and NodeSchool Oakland for the work they've done on their NodeSchool website template, which we're now using 💕

Checklist for organizers

Venue:
Directions, where's the entrance, which floor
Special security? We always collect real names and ask attendees to bring IDs
Signs
Food: vegetarian options
Drinks: non alcoholic options
Gender neutral restrooms
Bring white stickers and markers for name tags
Bring post its in different colors. Used by attendees to indicate that they need help