TDWG website

This repository contains the content and settings for the TDWG website. It is generated as a static website with Pelican.

Getting started

• Report: Found a bug? Have a question? See our contributing guide.
• Write: Want to update a page or fix a typo? See our contributing guide.
• Deploy: Want to render and deploy the site? See our deployment guide.

Repo structure

├── README.md                 : Description of this repository
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├── content                   : Website content. Each news item/page is a directory, containing at least an index.md
│   ├── articles              : News items, organized by year
│   └── pages
│       ├── home              : Homepage
│       ├── standards         : Standards pages
│       ├── journal           : BISS page
│       ├── community         : Interest, Task and Maintenance Groups pages
│       ├── conferences       : Conference landing pages
│       └── about             : Executive, Constitution, contact, etc. pages
│
├── settings.py, settings-prod.py : Generic website settings
├── requirements.txt          : Python requirements for Pelican
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├── LICENSE                   : Repository license
├── .github                   : Contributing guide, issue templates
└── .gitignore                : Files and directories to be ignored by git

Deployment

tdwg.org is rebuilt automatically for any change on the master branch in this repository or the tdwg-theme repository. You can see the status of the builds at https://builds.gbif.org/job/tdwg-website/. If you want to build the website locally, do the following:

Installation

1. Clone the website repo: git clone https://github.com/tdwg/website
2. Clone the theme repo: git clone https://github.com/tdwg/tdwg-theme
3. Optional: create a virtual environment (e.g. conda create -n tdwg python=3.7) and activate it (e.g. source activate tdwg)
4. Verify Python 3.3+ is installed: python --version
5. Navigate to the website repo and install the requirements (including Pelican): pip install -r requirements.txt

Build site

1. Optional: activate your virtual environment (e.g. source activate tdwg)
2. Navigate to the website directory: cd website
3. Build the site locally: pelican -s settings.py
4. The website is generated in output/ which you can serve with e.g. python -m http.server 8000

Contributors

List of contributors

License

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.