UseR - Urbana-Champaign Website Overview

Contained within this repository is the website source code that generates https://UrbanaChampaignUseR.github.io/.

Website Details

Generally speaking, the website is made using the following tools:

• The backend of the site is powered by hugo, which enables the static generation of files from markdown documents.
• Hosting for the website is through Netlify.
• To locally preview the website and convert .Rmd files to .md files, the blogdown package is employed which provides an interfaces with rmarkdown.
• Theming is based on the hugo-material theme.

Materials

Short talks and hackathon files are stored in separate repositories. These repositories are split by the year in which the talk was given, e.g. talks-2019, through a git submodule.

To create a new submodule, first create a new repository on GitHub.

https://github.com/new

Then, within the website repository, construct a link via:

git submodule add git@github.com:UrbanaChampaignUseR/talks-<YYYY>.git static/talks/talks-<YYYY>

where <YYYY> represents the year without <>.

To refresh the submodule, use:

git submodule update --init --remote --merge --recursive