http://hackeragenda.be is a website that aggregate events in Belgium that are interesting for hackers of the hackerspace community. It does that by fetching data from other website (by scraping most of the time ...) instead of asking users to submit events on it. This is my modest attemp to answer the problem "everyone is doing shitload of things and no one is aware of that and that sucks".
You need bower! You'll probably need to have a rescent version of nodejs to install it.
git clone https://github.com/Psycojoker/hackeragenda.git
cd hackeragenda
virtualenv ve
source ve/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py syncdb --noinput
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py bower_install
To update the events:
python manage.py fetch_events
In production, this command is in a crontab that run every one hour.
- Add a new function in
events/management/commands/fetch_events.py - Add the function in the sources (
fetch_events.pyline ~36) - Add a color to the organization in
events/colors.py - You might want to modify default filters in hackeragenda/settings.py
- Test
- Pull request
Example of a commit that add an organisation for the "Code" section: https://github.com/Psycojoker/hackeragenda/commit/0e91e210a8a093e5704af8665ee16c6001834d20
I'm looking for volunteers to open other instance of hackeragenda in other countries. France will probably be the next one. Don't hesitate to contact me if you want to do so!(see my mail on my profile) I can provide hosting (but without giving you access to it :/) and I'd like you to be at least able to write a web parser in python using BeaufitulSoup (or learn how to) and be ready to learn a bit of Django (not that much) if you don't already know it.
My objective is to end up with Hackeragenda all over the world and meta-hackeragenda like hackeragenda.eu.