Thessaloniki's tech and developer Events, Meetups & News.
SKGTech is using a Public Google Calendar for storing and reading the events and meetups. We also retain very few Pinned events that are edited only within this repository and reside in the _data/agenda.yaml file. The Pinned events will appear after all the Calendar events.
What you need to do is create a new Calendar event from your Gmail account and invite the SKGTech Public Calendar:
Create a new event in your calendar, use a short and descriptive name, define the duration of the even.
In the Where field you need to enter a Google Maps resolvable address, meaning an address that Google Maps can resolve to a location.
Mitropoleos 110, Thessaloniki, 54621, Greece
Mitropoleos 110, 2nd floor
The event description is a special data entry field, the SKGTech website will parse the description and look for specific keywords that will then use to render the event. The fields have a unique name and are separated using a colon from their values, here are all the possible fields:
- Venue: This is a free text field, this is the place where you name a particular venue and any special instructions on where to find the meetup (i.e. 2nd floor, Office #3).
- Info: This field expects a url that points to the events homepage.
- Map: This field expects a Google Maps url that points directly to a Google Maps link with the exact location of the event.
All of the above fields are optional, however at least one has to be defined. Here's an example Description event field from the OpenThessaloniki event:
Venue: 2nd Floor, Office 3
Info: http://www.openthessaloniki.org/
Map: https://www.google.com/maps?q=Ethnikis+Antistaseos+17,+Kalamaria,+Thessaloniki,+Greece&hl=en&sll=40.621193,22.954988&sspn=0.024365,0.039783&hnear=Leoforos+Ethnikis+Antistaseos+17,+Kalamaria,+Thessaloniki,+Greece&t=m&z=16&iwloc=A
You need to paste the following email address in the "Add Guests" field and press the "Add" button:
2ul10sd9g30mnk1vpmcnnp5qv4@group.calendar.google.com
We know this is hard to remember so if you are a frequent event organizer then it would make sense to create a new contact "SKGTech Calendar" and save the email there...
That was it, you can now Save the new event and as soon as we accept the invitation it will automatically be propagated to the live skgtech.io website.
If all of this sounds too complicated for you, you can then try the Online Form of shame.
If you know your way with Github, editing and updating the communities and the pinned agenda items is very simple, just edit the _data/communities.yaml or _data/pinnedAgenda.yaml files and send a Pull Request.
If you want to contribute to the development of this site you first need to setup your environment based on the project's requirements.
- Node 0.10.x
- Ruby If you're on OS X or Linux you probably already have Ruby installed; test with
ruby -vin your terminal. - Grunt
npm install -g grunt-cli - Bower
npm install -g bower - Jekyll
gem install jekyll
This project was built using Jekyll and is based on the JekyllBootstrap template, you don't need to be familiar with these tools to do most of the tasks.
First fork this repository and clone it to your local:
git clone git@github.com:YOUR_USERNAME/skgtech.github.io.git
cd meetupsAfter cloning is finished you need to install the development dependencies:
npm install && bower installYou can launch a webserver and a Jekyll watch alltogether simply by running grunt:
gruntThe default Grunt task will:
- Launch a jekyll watch and auto-build on every file change.
- Launch a local static webserver on port 9003.
- Open your browser on http://localhost:9003
- Edit styles from the
assets/css/main.cssfile. - Edit the layout from the
_includes/themes/twitter/folder. - The project's homepage is the file
index.htmlin the root folder. - Edit the markup for the Meetups and Agenda items in the
_includes/widgets/folder. - All the site's data are in the
_data/folder.
- Uses Bolt template