This repository holds the source code and content of the FOSDEM website (as of https://fosdem.org/).

Our website uses the nanoc static site generator, and we did implement a lot of custom code to support our workflow as painlessly as possible. Maybe some bits of those will be an inspiration or of help.

Getting started

Prerequisites

• Ruby 2.4 or newer
• ImageMagick >= 6.0 < 7.0
• pngcrush
• Either:
  1. An export of the FOSDEM pentabarf system; or
  2. Credentials to connect to the FOSDEM pentabarf database

Debian 9 with rbenv

Assuming you are running Debian or a derivative thereof, your system will need to have the following packages installed:

• autoconf
• bison
• build-essential
• git
• libffi-dev
• libgdbm-dev
• libmagickcore-dev
• libmagickwand-dev
• libncurses5-dev
• libpq-dev
• libreadline6-dev
• libssl1.0-dev
• libyaml-dev
• pngcrush
• zlib1g-dev

Following the steps below should result in a working environment:

git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc

source ~/.bashrc

rbenv install 2.7.0
rbenv rehash
rbenv local 2.7.0

gem install bundler -v 1.17.3 # we’ll upgrade to Bundler 2.x soon

git clone [email protected]:website.git

cd website/

git remote add github [email protected]:FOSDEM/website.git

bundle install

source ~/.bashrc

Of course, if you're not using bash, replace .bashrc with the appropriate initialisation file for your shell.

Building the site

A site build consists of two steps:

1. Export the data from the FOSDEM Pretalx database
2. Generate the static site using the exported data

Exporting from FOSDEM Pretalx

The schedule data is fetched as a large yaml file. Downloading this yaml file requires an api key which you can download at https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2024/me/ You need to set it as an environmental variable before running nanoc update -y.

export pretalx_api_key=xxx
nanoc update -y

If you do not have access to the pretalx site or for, you can copy the export/ folder in the sample/ directory to the root and go from there.

Generating the site

This section assumes you have an exported data from pretalx already. If you haven't please see the section above first.

nanoc

The site will be generated in /output. To view the website, you can use the view command and optionally specify a port to listen on:

nanoc view -p 1234

Don't forget to add the year when you check out the site, eg http://localhost:1234/2024 .

Running with Docker

Rather than installing all dependencies on you machine, it is also possible to use a docker container with all specific versions.

docker build -t fosdem/website .

# Export from Pentabarf
docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/usr/src/app fosdem/website kinit <username>@FOSDEM.ORG && nanoc update -y
# Generate the site
docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/usr/src/app fosdem/website nanoc

# Preview the site (at http://localhost:3000/2018)
docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/usr/src/app -p 3000:3000 fosdem/website nanoc view