How to add a New Event

How to add a new event

The easy way

Open a new "Add New Event Issue" and fill in the form

Updates the easy way

• How to update your event

The more involved way using VS Code

To add a new event, you will need to follow the steps below. We suggest t at you use Visual Studio Code with the YAML Extension added. You will need to have installed Git from https://git-scm.com as well

• Fork the repository - Instructions to fork a repository

• Create a branch (so that your changes are separate) The above post has instructions here to create a branch

• Check the _data directory for the last event number that was used and then

  • Create The Markdown file
  • Create The Data File

• Check your YAML - This is really important

• Sync Your Local Repository with GitHub

• Create a Pull Request (PR) in the Data Saturdays Repo The blog post also shows how to create a PR here

• Updates

  • How to update your event