ACM SIGCOMM 2017 Web Site

This repository contains code and data for the ACM SIGCOMM 2017 web site.

License

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (see LICENSE.md for details).

Credits

The 2017 site is based on the 2016 site, but changed to use Jekyll framework instead of relying on PHP. The repository for the 2017 site is at https://github.com/conference-websites/SIGCOMM-2017 and the site itself is online at http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2017/.

You are welcome to reuse and adapt the 2017 code under the same Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License and the same sharing conditions as above.

The 2017 web chair was Alex Afanasyev

Generating site using jekyll

The website uses jekyll engine to generate the website using the templates. To get started with jekyll:

gem install jekyll bundler
bundle install
bundle exec jekyll build

To generate the website and serve it from a local webserver, e.g., for debugging

bundle exec jekyll serve

Overview

The repository is organized as follows:

• _DOCS/ are various files used to prepare other files, but not directly published themselves.

• _config.yml is a configuration file for the website, defining title, menu, and several basic parameters

• _data/ contains datasets in YaML or JSON format defining conference dates, news, and supporters

• _includes/ are supplementary scripts to generate website's content, including templates for menu, news, google analytics, and sponsors

• _layouts/ are layout files

• css/ CSS code. Only edit style.css, the rest is 3rd party.

• css/images/ jquerymobile CSS images

• images/ Our images (logos, etc.)

• js/ Javascript. Only edit script.js, the rest is 3rd party libraries.

• misc/ Static documents served by the site: the calls for papers, PDF of the conference schedule, etc.

• *.md, *.html Individual pages in markdown or HTML format.

The site uses a bunch of 3rd party javascript libraries. You will want to use their latest versions:

• http://jquery.com/ - the javascript goes into js
• http://jquerymobile.com/ - the javascript goes into js and the CSS and images go into css
• http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.1.0/docs/_assets/css/jqm-docs.css - the CSS for the jquerymobile documentation page, goes into CSS
• http://code.google.com/p/css3-mediaqueries-js/ - the javascript goes into js

Getting started as SIGCOMM web chair

To get started, first check out:

http://www.sigcomm.org/conference-planning/web-chairs

You'll have to request an account at:

http://campus.acm.org/public/infodir/account_request.cfm

For questions or to check on status of your request, you may try following up with ishelpdesk@hq.acm.org.

You should receive further instructions from ACM on how to upload content to the server when your account is setup.

Advice and Future Enhancement Ideas from 2017 Web Chairs

One thing that would really be good to automate is creation of "schedule-at-glance". Right now, it was generated from a google spreadsheet more or less by hand and close to conference dates there are a number of modifications you may expect there.

Consider adding support for mobile apps.

Some of the styling in the program doesn't look too good on mobiles, especially when links to papers/slides are added. Consider hacking jquerymobile to make visualization a bit better.