PyData Berlin Website

This is the official website for the PyData Berlin community. It provides information about meetups, conferences, and other activities related to the PyData ecosystem in Berlin.

Table of Contents

• About
• Features
• Project Structure
• Development
• Contributing
• License

About

PyData Berlin is a community of users and developers of open-source data tools, focusing on Python, Julia, and R. The website serves as a hub for information about meetups, conferences, and other events.

Features

• Information about past and upcoming PyData Berlin conferences.
• Links to the PyData Berlin Meetup group and other related communities.
• Blog posts and updates about the community.
• Social media links for staying connected.

Project Structure

├── index.html          # Main landing page
├── blog/              # Blog posts
├── conferences/       # Conference pages
├── css/              # Stylesheets
├── images/           # Images used on the website
├── js/               # JavaScript files
├── scripts/          # Python scripts for content generation
├── feed.xml          # RSS feed
├── code-of-conduct/  # Code of Conduct in multiple languages
└── cdn-cgi/          # Cloudflare scripts

Scripts Directory

The /scripts directory contains Python utilities for generating conference content:

• generate_sessions.py - Generates individual HTML pages for conference sessions from JSON data
• generate_social_cards.py - Creates social media card images for each session with speaker photos and session details
• models.py - Pydantic models for type-safe data handling
• templates/ - Jinja2 templates for HTML generation

These scripts use Python with uv as the package manager. To run them:

cd scripts
uv venv
source .venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate
uv pip install pydantic markdown jinja2 pillow requests pyyaml
python generate_sessions.py
python generate_social_cards.py

Development

Prerequisites

To set up the project locally, ensure you have the following installed:

• Ruby (version >= 2.7.0)
• Bundler (to manage Ruby gems)
• Jekyll (static site generator)

See here to install all 3 together.

To run the website locally you just need to first install the dependencies

bundle install

and then start the sever

bundle exec jekyll serve

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please follow these steps:

• Fork the repository.
• Create a new branch for your feature or bugfix.
• Commit your changes and push the branch.
• Open a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.