Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery: Customizing Your Workshop's Website

Configuration File _config.yml

You should edit the _config.yml configuration file in the root directory of your workshop to configure some site-wide variables and make the site function correctly:

• carpentry - to tell us which carpentry workshop this is, possible values are (“swc” for Software Carpentry workshops, “dc” for Data Carpentry workshops, “lc” for Library Carpentry Workshops, or “cp” for general Carpentries events such as instructor trainings).
• curriculum - for Data Carpentry, which one of the curriculum is being taught. Possible values are: dc-ecology, dc-genomics, dc-socsci, dc-geospatial.
• flavor - r or python depending on which lessons are being taught at the workshop (currently only for Data Carpentry workshops)
• title - overall title for the workshop. If set (i.e., different from “Workshop Title” or empty), it will appear in the “jumbotron” (the gray box at the top of the page). This variable is also used for the title of the extra pages. More information about extra pages are available in the README.

For example, if the URL for the repository is https://github.com/gvwilson/2015-07-01-miskatonic, the URL for the website will be http://gvwilson.github.io/2015-07-01-miskatonic.

You should not need to modify any of the other values in _config.yml.

Home Page (index.md): data in the YAML header

Your workshop’s home page lives in index.md, which must define the values below in its header. If your workshop is taught online, see the following section for customization options.

• layout must be workshop.

• venue is the short name of the institution or group hosting the workshop, like “Euphoric State University”. It should not include the address or other details, since this value is displayed in a table on websites (e.g., https://carpentries.org/upcoming_workshops/). See section below for value to use for online workshops.

• address is the workshop’s address (including details like the room number). The address should be all on one line. See section below for value to use for online workshops.

• country must be a two-letter ISO-3166 code for the country in which the workshop is going to take place, such as “fr” (for France) or “nz” (for New Zealand) - see Wikipedia for a complete list. See section below for value to use for online workshops.

• language is the language that will be used in the workshop. It must be an ISO 639-1 code. Note that two-letter codes mean different things for countries and languages: “ar” is Arabic when used for a language, but Argentina when used for a country.

• latitude and longitude are the latitude and longitude of the workshop site (so we can put a pin on our map). You can use this site to find these values. See section below for value to use for online workshops.

• humandate is the human-friendly start and end date for the workshop. Please use three-letter month names and abbreviations (e.g., Jul instead of July), since these values are displayed in a table on our websites. (Strictly speaking this information is redundant, since we require a machine-readable startdate and enddate, but reliably translating those into human-readable dates is an interesting challenge…)

• humantime is the human-friendly start and end time for each day of the workshop, e.g., “09:00 am - 4:00 pm” or “09:00-16:00”. (We recognize that we ought to allow different start or end times on different days, but going down that path leads eventually to embedding iCal date/time specifications in our headers, which in turn leads to madness…)

• startdate is the workshop’s starting date in YYYY-MM-DD format, such as 2015-07-01. You must use four digits for the year and two each for the month and day.

• enddate is the workshop’s ending date in the same format. If your workshop is only one day long, the enddate field should be deleted. If your workshop has a more complicated schedule (e.g., a half day a week for four weeks), please delete the enddate field and only tell us its start date.

• instructor is a comma-separated list of instructor names. The list must be enclosed in square brackets, and each name must be in double quotes, as in ["Alan Turing","Grace Hopper"]. Do not include other information (such as the word “instructor”) in these values.

• helper is a comma-separated list of helper names formatted in the same way as the instructor names. If there are no helpers, use an empty list [].

• contact is the contact email address to use for your workshop. If you do not provide a contact email address, your website will display the address for the workshop coordinators (who probably won’t be able to answer questions about the specific details of your workshop).

The header may optionally define the following:

• collaborative_notes is the URL for the Etherpad for your workshop. If you are not using an Etherpad, you can delete this line. You can create a carpentries etherpad here.

• eventbrite is the multi-digit Eventbrite registration key. If you are using Eventbrite, the Carpentries Regional Coordinators will give this to you. If you are using something else, you may delete this line. Note: this value must be given as a string in double quotes, rather than as a number.

For online workshops

If the workshop is online, follow the same instructions as above with the following modifications:

• venue: Use the name of the institution that organizes the workshop and do not include a mention that it is an online workshop.
• address: If you can safely share the URL for the videoconferencing, you may list it here (it must start with http or https); if you cannot or prefer to not share the videoconferencing information, use the value online.
• country: Please use the country associated with the host institution for the workshop.
• latitude and longitude: if it makes sense, use the coordinates for the host institution. If it does not, use 0 for both the latitude and the longitude.

Home Page: Schedule and Syllabus

You should edit the sections titled Schedule and Syllabus so that they show what you’re actually planning to teach and when. These files are located in the appropriate workshop folder (dc, lc or swc) inside the _includes folder.

Home Page: Setup

You may have to edit the setup.html located in the dc, lc or swc folders inside the _includes folder. Make sure you delete the sections for the software and data you will not be using in your workshop, so that learners don’t spend time installing software they don’t need.

Updating the repository

If for some reason, such as the installation instructions having become disconnected with the current lesson material, you need to get changes from this repository into the clone of it with your workshop page, please follow the steps bellow:

1. Add the workshop-template repository as upstream:

   $ git remote add upstream https://github.com/carpentries/workshop-template.git
   

2. Fetch the data from upstream repository (also know as the workshop-template repository):

   $ git pull upstream
   

3. Address possible merge conflicts, and

   $ git commit -a
   

4. Push the changes to your repository on GitHub:

   $ git push origin gh-pages