maptime/montreal

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Description: Maptime Montreal

Created: 2015-03-23 19:26:42.0

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README

Maptime Starter site

Starter is a simple Jekyll theme for MapTime meetups. Hosting your own meetup? Starter is desgined to be easily forked and tweaked to suit your own needs.

Installation
  1. Fork this repo.
  2. Edit the _config.yml file. Here's a quick rundown of the configuration options.

| Name | Required | Value | Description | | — | — | — | — | | baseurl | Yes | post | This value should always be the same. | | permalink | No | how urls are generated | You can learn more about how they are generated here. | | markdown | No | Determines which markdown engine is used | Generally, you don't need to touch this field for your own needs. | | paginate | Yes | Number of posts on the front page | Starter supports pagintaion. Control the number of posts on a given page by changing this value | | repo | Yes | Name of the repo on GitHub | As an example, the name of the starter repo is starter | | github_org | Yes | Name of the organization or username on GitHub | Most of the time this will be 'maptime' | | maptime: chapter | Yes | Name of your MapTime meetup | | | maptime: twitter | No | Your MapTime Twitter username | | | maptime: disqus | No | Disqus account name | Starter optionally supports comments on posts with Disqus. Create a new Disqus account for a site and fill this field with the account name. |

Content types

There are two kinds of content in Starter: post and event. You author these types of content in the _posts directory. Each content type has unique configuration options that you should declare at the top of the document. This is called Frontmatter.

Event

Events are for actual planned meetups with RSVP information. Note that the filename of the post should match the date of the meetup date.

Fronmatter options

| Name | Required | Value | Description | | — | — | — | — | | layout | Yes | event | This value should always be the same. | | category | Yes | event | This value should always be the same. | | title | Yes | The title of your event | | | rsvp | Yes | URL to rsvp | This should be a link to an Eventbrite date or other service. |

Posts

Posts are like blog posts. These are great for meetup follow ups or posts that don't have a meetup event tied to it.

Fronmatter options

| Name | Required | Value | Description | | — | — | — | — | | layout | Yes | post | This value should always be the same. | | title | Yes | The title of your post | | | author | No | Author's name | | | image | No | URL path to an image | Images added here will show up as a Twitter card when a post is shared. |

Help resources
Examples in the wild

Have you used this starter to create your own meetup site? Let us know and we can add it below!

Licence

BSD


This work is supported by the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Grant Number U24TR002306. This work is solely the responsibility of the creators and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.