The Website for Hacksburg, a Blacksburg, VA Makerspace

Hacksburg's primary web presence. Hosted by Github pages. Availible on the web at https://hacksburg.org

How to Update the site

0. (Optional) Download events from meetup and convert to JSON using rss_to_json.ipynb
1. Modify posts.json (add a new post element or update an existing one)
2. (Optional, suggested) Run build.py to build index.html and host the site locally to check that everything looks how you expect
   • Use python -m http.server, VSCode Live Server, or similar
3. Commit and push posts.json to Github to automatically build and update the live site

Contents

• .github/workflows: Defines build and deployment process
• 360tour: A virtual workshop tour powered by Marzipano
• about/contact/donate/join: Static pages for additional content
• resources: Site resources including fonts, scripts, CSS, and images
• build.py: Adds contents from posts.json to static html site
• index.html: Homepage of website, framework that contains no posts by default
• posts.json: Defines homepage content (primarily classes and events)
• rss_to_json.py: Formats Meetup RSS feed to post.json expected format