This repository holds the source code and content of the FOSDEM website (as of https://fosdem.org/).

FOSDEM is the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting, an event that is organized by the community for the community, as a non-for-profit.

Thousands of Open Source contributors from around the world meet every year in Brussels (Belgium) to enjoy over 400 sessions and many occasions to chat and exchange.

Our website uses the nanoc static site generator, and we did implement a lot of custom code to support our workflow as painlessly as possible. Maybe some bits of those will be an inspiration or of help.

Getting started

Prerequisites

Ruby 2.1.5
ImageMagick >= 6.0 < 7.0
pngcrush
Either:
1. An export of the FOSDEM pentabarf system; or
2. Credentials to connect to the FOSDEM pentabarf database

Building the site

A site build consists of two steps:

Export the data from the FOSDEM Pentabarf database
Generate the static site using the exported data

Exporting from FOSDEM Pentabarf

To generate the schedule data from Pentabarf:

Note: You will need to add your credentials for the pentabarf website.

TODO: It appears you set the password in config.yaml, but there's probably a more elegant way that doesn't risk accidentally committing credentials to the git repo.

bundle exec nanoc update -y

Generating the site

This section assumes you have an exported data from pentabarf already. If you haven't please see the section below first.

If you've been provided with a dump of the Pentabarf system, place pentabarf.yaml and the events and speaker directories in the /export directory of this repository.

bundle exec nanoc

The site will be generated in /output.

There are many ways to preview the site. One way is to use http-server:

# install if you don't have it already
yarn global add http-server
cd output 
http-server

Dependency notes

Ruby version

Ruby must be pinned at 2.1.5 because of the following requirements:

The json dependency (v1.8.3) as of 2017-02-06) is not compatible with Ruby >= 2.4.0. ActiveSupport needs to be updated so its json dependency is bumped to >= 1.8.6 to gain support for Ruby 2.4 and greater.
The psych gem fails on Ruby > 2.1.5.
prawn-2.0.3 requires ruby version >= 2.0.0, which is incompatible with the current version, ruby 1.9.3p551

ImageMagick version

rmagick v2.15.4 is not compatible with ImageMagick 7 and newer. Tested with ImageMagick 6.9.9-34 on OSX.

Getting set up on OSX

You may need to remove/unlink imagemagick if you have a newer version installed already.

brew install rbenv pngcrush imagemagick@6
rbenv install ruby-1.9.3-p551

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