Overview

This is the source code for the http://pyladies.com/ website. It uses mynt, a static site generator (available for Python2; Python3 is not supported).

Contents

• Understanding the repo's directory layout
• Setting up a development system
• To add a new PyLadies location
• To write a blog post
• To contribute source code to the repository
• To write a resource
• For Organizers

Understanding the repo's directory layout

Before adding a new location or contributing to the pyladies website, it's helpful to understand a bit about the repo and its contents.

This is a general overview of the repo's root directory structure. requirements.txt, fabfile.py and .circleci directory contain code for installing dependencies, configuring the CircleCI service, and instructions for testing and deployment. The repo's root directory also contains the www folder. Most of the time, contributors will edit or add files in the www folder.

requirements.txt   # file with dependencies used by pip
.circleci          # directory containing the continuous integration configuration settings
fabfile.py         # file which is used by continuous integration for testing and deployment
www                # directory which contains the content of the website
├── CodeOfConduct
├── _assets        # javascript, CSS stuff, and images go here
├── _posts         # contains blog posts written in markdown
├── _templates     # contains the base templates (html and Jinja2) used by the site
├── about
├── archives
├── blog
├── locations      # Use the config.yml file to add new locations or update location info
├── resources
└── sponsor

Setting Up a Development System

If you wish to add a location, new chapter, or make code changes, please review the next few sections. There are a few tasks to set up a development system:

• Set up Python2 and a project directory
• Create and activate a virtual environment
• Fork and clone your pyladies repo
• Run the site locally

Set up Python2 and a project directory

Linux, macOS

1. Check that Python2 is installed with python2 --version. If it is not installed, it can be downloaded at https://python.org:

   $ python2 --version
   Python 2.7.16

2. (Optional) Learn the directory which this Python 2 version is installed which python2:

   $ which python2
   /usr/local/bin/python2

   You may see a different directory name which is fine.

3. Create a directory for development mkdir pyladies-dev:

   $ mkdir pyladies-dev

4. Change into the directory cd pyladies-dev:

   $ cd pyladies-dev
   
   # To check your current directory (`<YOUR_PATH>` will be different on
   # your system.)
   $ pwd
   YOUR_PATH/pyladies-dev

Great!

Windows

The process will be similar though the commands will vary slightly. Reference: Table of basic Powershell commands.

Create and activate a virtual environment

1. From the pyladies-dev directory, install the virtualenv package:

   $ pip install virtualenv
   Collecting virtualenv
   Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ca/ee/8375c01412abe6ff462ec80970e6bb1c4308724d4366d7519627c98691ab/virtualenv-16.6.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
   Installing collected packages: virtualenv
   Successfully installed virtualenv-16.6.0

2. Create a virtual environment named pyladyenv:

   $ virtualenv pyladyenv
   Running virtualenv with interpreter /usr/bin/python2.7
   New python executable in /Users/willingc/projects/pyladies-dev/pyladyenv/bin/python
   Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...
   done.

3. Activate the virtual environment:

   $ source pyladyenv/bin/activate
   
   (pyladyenv)
   $

   After activation, you should see (pyladyenv) above your command prompt.

Troubleshooting note (AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'X509_up_ref'): The error comes from PyOpenSSL. Either your OpenSSL is too old or too new. Try upgrading or downgrading OpenSSL and PyOpenSSL.

Fork and clone your pyladies repo

1. On GitHub, fork http://github.com/pyladies/pyladies to your own GitHub account <YOUR_GITHUB_USER_NAME> by pressing the green Fork button on the upper right of the screen.
2. From the pyladies-dev directory, clone your fork to your machine using git clone:

(pyladyenv)
$ git clone https://github.com/<YOUR_GITHUB_USER_NAME>/pyladies.git
Cloning into 'pyladies'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 47, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (47/47), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (29/29), done.
remote: Total 5877 (delta 22), reused 38 (delta 16), pack-reused 5830
Receiving objects: 100% (5877/5877), 39.73 MiB | 3.62 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2922/2922), done.

You have successfully cloned your pyladies fork. 😄

Run the site locally

Troubleshooting note for some operating systems: Make sure you have headers for Python and libevent installed (e.g., on Ubuntu, python-dev and libevent-dev). Packages in requirements.txt are required for the website to build successfully with mynt.

1. Change to the root of the pyladies repo (your virual environment should still be activated):

   (pyladyenv)
   $ cd pyladies

2. Install dependencies using pip:

   (pyladyenv)
   $ pip install -r requirements.txt
   
   # You will see files being installed and this message at completion
   # It's okay if the versions differ slightly
   Successfully built hoep MarkupSafe mynt pathtools pycparser PyYAML watchdog
   Installing collected packages: argh, asn1crypto, six, pycparser, cffi, bcrypt, idna, enum34, ipaddress, cryptography, docutils, pyasn1, PyNaCl, paramiko, Fabric, hoep, MarkupSafe, Jinja2, Pygments, PyYAML, pathtools, watchdog, mynt
   Successfully installed Fabric-1.13.1 Jinja2-2.9.6 MarkupSafe-1.0 PyNaCl-1.1.2 PyYAML-3.12 Pygments-2.2.0 argh-0.26.2 asn1crypto-0.22.0 bcrypt-3.1.3 cffi-1.10.0 cryptography-2.0.3 docutils-0.14 enum34-1.1.6 hoep-1.0.2 idna-2.6 ipaddress-1.0.18 mynt-0.3.1 paramiko-2.2.1 pathtools-0.1.2 pyasn1-0.3.2 pycparser-2.18 six-1.10.0 watchdog-0.8.3

3. Navigate into the pyladies/www directory.

   (pyladyenv)
   $ cd www

4. Use mynt to generate and serve the website locally with mynt gen -f _site && mynt serve _site:

   (pyladyenv)
   $ mynt gen -f _site && mynt serve _site
   >> Parsing
   >> Rendering
   >> Generating
   Completed in 1.114s
   >> Serving at 127.0.0.1:8080
   Press ctrl+c to stop.

5. Copy the IP address provided once mynt has completed building the site. It will say something like >> Serving at 127.0.0.1:8080. Then paste the IP address into the URL bar of a browser window and load it to view the site.

Congrats on running the site on your machine 🎉 🐍

6. (Optional: After making changes to the source code) To view any changes you make to the site code, type ctrl+c in the terminal to stop the local webserver. Then run the command from Step 5 again and refresh the browser window.

• How to fork and clone: https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo
• How to create a virtualenv: http://simononsoftware.com/virtualenv-tutorial/

Note: It is important that when you create your virtualenv, do not create it in the same folder as the code you downloaded. The reason is that mynt will search the current directory for files to build and it looks for all folders that don't start with an underscore (which means it will find your virtualenv folder and error out).

To add a new PyLadies location

Follow the instructions for setting up a development environment.

To add or edit a location, you will make changes to the config.yaml file found in the pyladies\www\locations directory.

YAML files are often used for configuration information. They can be fussy about spacing, indentations, and punctuation. It can be helpful when troubleshooting to use an online YAML validator to see if the file is correctly formatted. An example is YAML Lint though there are many others and some editors provide similar functionality.

An example of a location:

    - name: CDMX, México
      meetup_id: 19719503
      website: mx
      image: pyladies_cdmx.png
      email: mx@pyladies.com
      twitter: MxPyladies
      meetup: Mexico-City-Pyladies-Meetup
      location:
        latitude: 19.432868
        longitude: -99.133211

For Unicode accents in some languages To use a Unicode accent in a YAML file, it's important to use the HTML entity character for the accent. The HTML entity can found be found in a table of characters.

For example, México will have the HTML entity México.

To write a blog post

See CONTRIBUTING.md for instructions and guidelines.

To contribute to the repository

See CONTRIBUTING.md for instructions and guidelines.

To write a resource (more "sticky" than a blog post)

Collection of outside resources

If you want to add a bullet item to an existing subject matter, find the relevant post in www/_posts (file titled by it's general category) and add to the .md file. Please also update the date in the .md file. For instance, if you want to add another suggestion to text editors, the original file is: www/_posts/2013-04-19-tools-resources.md, and once you're done editing, it would be renamed to www/_post/todays-date-tools-resources.md.

If there is a collection of resources that do not fit into our loosely-named categories, like "tools" or "tutorials", etc, then start your own in www/_posts/ and name the Markdown file with today's date, general category, plus the word "resources", like: 2013-04-21-developer-tips-resources.md. You will also need to have the following at the top:

---
layout: post.html
title: "Your title here"
tags: [list, of relevant, tags]
category: resources
---

Your own resource

If you want to write your own resources, like Barbara's beginner workshop notes or Juliana's Mac setup, in addition to CONTRIBUTING.md, you will need to add more items in the header portion, like so:

---
layout: post.html
title: "Your title here"
tags: [list, of relevant, tags]
author: Name, or blank/none
author_link: Twitter/Blog/etc or blank/none
category: resources, pyladies
---

Notice that pyladies and resources are required in for category.

Once done, save it in www/_posts/ with the date and title in the name of the file, like so: 2013-04-21-lynns-awesome-resource.md.

To find this resource online, you would navigate to http://pyladies.com/blog/[your_post_name]

For Organizers

Your own domain/site:

You are welcome to create your own location's webspace, e.g. seattle.pyladies.com or sea.pyladies.com, or even www.pyladies.com/seattle etc. If you want your own URL, tell me:

1. what you want your URL to be.
2. make a pull request for your site.
3. when you want it to go live.

If you just tell me your URL I can put dummy data - e.g. your location info etc, if you want to take your time to work on your own site.

Suggestions:

• Play with the Meetup API to show your upcoming events, number of members, etc
• Play with the Twitter API to show your group's latest tweets
• A chapter blog
• anything!

I really don't mind if you want to do a whole different design that doesn't match w/ the current homepage. Maybe keep it as mynt though

• but your choice completely.

-your friendly administrator.