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

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.

• Ruby 2.4 or newer
• 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

Assuming you are running Debian or a derivative thereof, your system will need to have the following packages installed:

• autoconf
• bison
• build-essential
• git
• libffi-dev
• libgdbm-dev
• libmagickcore-dev
• libmagickwand-dev
• libncurses5-dev
• libpq-dev
• libreadline6-dev
• libssl1.0-dev
• libyaml-dev
• pngcrush
• zlib1g-dev

Following the steps below should result in a working environment:

git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc

source ~/.bashrc

rbenv install 2.7.0
rbenv rehash
rbenv local 2.7.0

gem install bundler -v 1.17.3 # we’ll upgrade to Bundler 2.x soon

git clone git@git.fosdem.org:website.git

cd website/

git remote add github git@github.com:FOSDEM/website.git

bundle install

source ~/.bashrc

Of course, if you're not using bash, replace .bashrc with the appropriate initialisation file for your shell.

A site build consists of two steps:

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

To generate the schedule data from Pentabarf, you will first need to obtain a Kerberos ticket for a principal with access to the Pentabarf database. Next, you will be able to run the update command.

kinit yourprincipal@FOSDEM.ORG
nanoc update -y

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.

nanoc

The site will be generated in /output. To view the website, you can use the view command and optionally specify a port to listen on:

nanoc view -p 1234