maptime/albany

Name: albany

Owner: maptime

Description: Maptime Albany

Created: 2015-03-25 03:19:37.0

Updated: 2015-03-26 19:51:57.0

Pushed: 2015-04-20 14:24:37.0

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Language: CSS

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README

Maptime Starter site

Hosting your own meetup? Starter is desgined to be easily forked and tweaked to suit your own needs. Starter is a simple Jekyll theme for MapTime meetups. Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site generator for personal, project, or organization sites.

Creating a new chapter

1. Create a ticket here. Outline the name of your Maptime chapter and who the organizers are by their GitHub username.
2. Assign the ticket or mention @geografa. He can create a new repository under the Maptime organization account and include your chapter's organizers to administer it.
3. 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 pagination. 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.

Frontmatter 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.

Frontmatter 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

• Create an issue on the Starter repo and we'll respond to it.
• The site is powered by Jekyll. To make custom tweaks to your own site, you should read its documentation.
• Starter makes the assumption you will be running the site on GitHub pages. You can learn more about GitHub Pages here.

Examples in the wild

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

• MaptimeDC
• MaptimeTO

Licence

BSD