Adding initial event info for 2020-09-29

[jcohen02]

This PR includes the event information for the event scheduled for 2020-09-29.

The event is awaiting an ID and Indico registration link and there will likely be a couple of other updates to be made but in terms of making the basic event information available, this is ready to be merged once an ID and registration link are added.

[Chilipp]

hey @jcohen02! thanks a lot for your work here. The failures are totally not your fault. It's a python 2.7 thing, it cannot decode characters such as ’. So I replaced them here.

@vsoch: Do you think we can adapt the pdf-generation action to use python 3.7 (or 3.8) instead of 2.7? Then this would not be a problem anymore.

[jcohen02]

Many thanks for making the fixes to this @Chilipp. Out of interest I just did a test run of the PDF generation in a local build of the pdf-generator docker container (as described here) and it seemed to generate a PDF without complaining about the quote characters. I guess an update to the Actions configuration will resolve this as you've suggested.

[Chilipp]

@eileen-kuehn: Could you please provide a registration url and an event-id?

• registration url inserted
• event-ID changed

[vsoch]

I'm not sure what action you are asking for on the pdf-generator - it installs python3 and uses pandoc to generate the output, and @jcohen02 reports that all is working - if you are able to find the issue in the entrypoint please let me know and I'd be happy to create a branch for testing.

[Chilipp]

it seemed to generate a PDF without complaining about the quote characters.

yep @jcohen02, this is probably because you used the default settings which does not extract any metadata from the markdown file. If you want to mimick the PDF generation locally, you need to run the docker build as such:

cp _events/talks/event-ID_UNKNOWN.md ci/
docker run --env-file ci/env.txt -it -v `pwd`:/github/workspace rseng/pdf-generator

This should fail with the same error as in the github action (well, now it works, as I changed the problematic characters)

[Chilipp]

if you are able to find the issue in the entrypoint please let me know and I'd be happy to create a branch for testing.

see rseng/pdf-generator#6, is it okay that way @vsoch?

[Chilipp]

@jcohen02, the PDF generation is failing because it's a forked PR. We'll do this later (actually it should not attempt to open a PR for forks, sorry about that)

[eileen-kuehn]

I added the correct indico URL for registration and did open registration already.
I still need some information about the actual schedule that I can properly fill the timetable.

The registered ID for the event is 27 so the file name should become event-027.md. @jcohen02, could you change it?

[Chilipp]

The registered ID for the event is 27 so the file name should become event-027.md. @jcohen02, could you change it?

I am not @jcohen02, but I changed it 😉

[jcohen02]

Thanks for your work investigating the issues here @Chilipp, and for changing the event ID 🙂

[Chilipp]

alright, when the CI finishes, we can merge this PR. Thanks a lot @jcohen02 (although for your patience 😅)

[jcohen02]

No problem @Chilipp, not quite as straightforward as we had all hoped but a useful exercise nonetheless. Thanks for your help in resolving the issues.

[Chilipp]

there seems to be a problem with the site of personal website of @tscheypidi (https://www.pik-potsdam.de/research/members/dietrich) which is why the link checking in the CI is failing. But I suspect, PIK will resolve this soon, so I'll merge this PR despite the failure (see also #327)

[PYTHON3610]

I'm new to python and programming where and what can I do here

[vsoch]

hey @PYTHON3610 ! I think this event is now passed so we don't have further work on this particular site (until it or a similar event happens again) but if you want to join the society's slack (instructions here) https://society-rse.org/join-us/ you can probably get notified when there is a new/future effort to make something.

[PYTHON3610]

Thanks you for the response and I will join your societies slack

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