This repository hosts the code for the Nairobi GNU/Linux Users Group website. We wanted a fun, nerdy and democratic way to give our community an online presence, so here we are.
The website is powered by Pelican — a static site generator written in Python — and uses a magical theme called Alchemy.
The easiest way to do this is in a Python virtual environment. We recommend using pyenv with pyenv-virtualenv to set one up. Luckily, pyenv has an automatic installer, pyenv-installer.
Once you have pyenv installed, create a virtual environment to hold Pelican and its dependencies:
$ pyenv virtualenv nairobilug
$ pyenv activate nairobilug
This creates a virtual environment and then activates it. If you want to exit the virtual environment, type:
$ pyenv deactivate
If you haven't already, clone this repo (or your version of it):
$ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/nairobilug/nairobilug.or.ke
Use pip to install the list of dependencies (including Pelican) into your virtual environment:
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
Now that the dependencies exists, we can build:
$ make html
This takes the Markdown files from the content/ directory and generates static HTML pages inside the output/ directory. That's it. No MySQL, no PHP, etc...
You can serve the generated site so it can be previewed in your browser:
$ make serve
And you should see the blog if you visit http://localhost:8000.
If you're interested in writing a blog post for the website, you need to:
- Fork the nairobilug/nairobilug.or.ke repository
- Write a blog post using Markdown in the
contentdirectory - Push the changes to a topic branch, like
why-i-love-linux, on your fork of the repository - Make a pull request against the
masterbranch
Happy blogging!
If you have any questions, drop by #nairobilug on Freenode, or try our mailing list. If you're having trouble with your setup, you can get help by creating an issue.