Create an amazing new website for your local hackspace within minutes!
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=> 🌟 Features
Take a look at the hackspaces which already use this template!:)
- TAMI, Tel Aviv (Israel): https://telavivmakers.org/
- Noisebridge, San Francisco (USA): about to launch, needs to be deployed
- and maybe your hackspace soon as well?:)
This website template has a lot of super useful features for your hackspace! Don’t need all of them? Don’t worry, you can easily deactivate or customize them as well!
=> 🛬Landingpage with all the essentials
=> ℹ️About section, tell your hackspace’s story
=> 🔍Search everything, everywhere
=> 🗓Create & see all your events
=> 🏠List your spaces & machines
=> 📝Create, archive and see all your meeting notes
Want more? Learn how to contribute!
The most important key feature first - THIS WEBSITE HAS LEDs!!! *
I mean… do you really need anything else to convince your hackspace community?
*if the website visitor has Dark Mode activated on their device / operating system
- "Currently open" indicator (automatically updated every minute)
- hackspace short description
- upcoming events (automatically updated every minute)
- overview of what areas your hackspace covers & quick links to search
- address, map & opening hours
- the one rule - be excellent to each other
- how to participate
- your hackspace history
- auto import existing events from Meetup and your Wiki, via Cronjob
- allow community members to create new events directly via the website (which then get automatically posted to your Meetup group and Discourse as well)
- from Twitter, Instagram, your Wiki & Flickr
- including preview of the connected social media posts
- sort by "Latest", "Oldest" or "Random" - to explore more of your hackspace's history!
- always see the latest photos on the landingpage (automatically updated every minute)
- auto import projects from your Discourse group
- link to the project section of your Discourse group to allow people to create new projects
- list all your spaces & most important machines
- easy import of existing meeting notes from your Wiki
- automatically start a new meeting on Riseup Pad based on your meeting notes template
- presenter/note taker mode - to allow everyone to see what the current topic is (and how long the meeting is already going on)
- use #hashtags to tag keywords - which get extracted automatically when you finish a meeting
- auto import consensus items from your Discourse group
- link to the consensus items section of your Discourse group to allow people to create new projects
- donation infos accessible from every page
- links to donate money, hardware or organize or volunteer an event
- easily switch between languages
- more languages can be easily added via the translation files
Step 1: Clone this repo
git clone git@github.com:glowingkitty/HackspaceOS.git
Step 2: To add your own logo: Add the following files to _website/static/images/:
logo.svg
header_logo.jpg
Step 3: Create your own favicons and add the following files to _website/static/images/favicons/:
favicon.ico
favicon-32x32.png
favicon-16x16.png
apple-touch-icon.png
Step 4: Add your default background image as "header_banner.jpg" to _website/static/images/
Step 5: Make sure you have Python 3 installed and execute:
python3 install.py
Step 6: Test your website - you can start your webserver via:
python manage.py runserver
Step 7: Customize the settings in config.json for your hackspace (and make sure it's a valid JSON, otherwise the server won't be able to start).
Step 8: Deploy your website
=> Click to show JavaScript files
=> How to add a new page:
- add a new view file with a new view class in views.py
- add new view class to init.py
- add template html in /templates
- add a new path for view in urls.py
Check out our To Do's Board. to see what tasks you could help with - and fill out this contact form, so we can get in contact.
Want to support the development financially? Donations are always welcomed!
