This is the code for the conference website for the 2024 Conference on Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS 2024) -- based on the code for EMNLP 2023
It's currently using the Minimal Mistakes Jekyll Theme.
For a new conferences, you may either set up a repository from scratch by forking the original Minimal Mistakes repository or you may fork this repository directly. The latter may be easiest since all of the changes that are required for more complex things like the web-based schedule to work are already there. However, the disadvantage of forking this repository is that the version of the Minimal Mistakes theme will be out of date and you might miss out on bugfixes and new features.
IMPORTANT: Note also that if you fork this repository, you will get all of the existing conference's pages and blog posts and schedule and other content. Therefore, it is up to you to modify/temporarily remove that content before you make your website public so that your new domain is not indexed by search engines with old content. It might be best to rename the gh-pages branch so that the website for the new conference does not get built with content from the old conference. You can rename the branch back to gh-pages once you have made sufficient changes locally to remove/modify the old conference content.
Extra note based on my experience for IVACS'24: I downloaded the EMNLP 2023 repository, unzipped, pruned some of the unnecessary files which were specific to EMNLP (images, blogposts, subpages, etc), and edited the files mentioned below. Then created a new GitHub repository, pushed this local repository using git, and updated the GitHub repository settings under 'Pages' (source and build) in order to publish under my .github.io/<repository_name> . In addition I edited the Gemfile and _config as instructed on the Mimimal Mistakes page (I specified the version of MM forked for NAACL'21 -> EMNLP'23 which was 4.16.4). After a short delay to build, the page went live :)
If you fork this repository, the following files are the ones to pay attention to in order to create content for the website:
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_pages/xxx.md: The markdown files contain the main contents of the different web pages of the website. Please note that once you fork, you would need to move the already existing .md files out into a different folder so that old pages do not get rendered into the new website. -
downloads/: Contains files that can be downloaded from the website. -
_sass/minimal-mistakes/*.scss: SASS files that control the look and the feel of the website. The file_program.scssis not part of the them and controls the look and feel of the web schedule page. -
_data/navigation.xml: YAML file that contains the links in the masthead at the top of the website and also links in the various sidebars. -
_data/authors.yml: YAML file that contains the information about the various blog post authors, e.g., Program Chairs, Diversity Chairs, General Chair. This file must be updated with the right names and links. -
_config.yml: YAML file that contains meta-information about the website that should be set properly for a new conference. Details are given in the comments in the file. You must edit this file properly before making the website public. -
_posts/*.md: If you are going to have a blog, this where the blog posts live and are namedYYYY-MM-DD-title.md. Same as the files under_pages, you should move out already existing files from this folder to prevent them from getting rendered. -
CNAME: You should delete this file since this contains the old external domain from the older conference. This file will be automatically re-generated when you add the new external domain for the new conference. If you do not remove this file, you will get a page build warning from GitHub.
In my case the underlying GitHub Pages URL is https://cainesap.github.io/ivacs2024/
I bought a domain (https://www.ivacs2024.com/) and configured the repository settings, and those for the domain as described here: https://docs.github.com/en/pages/configuring-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site/managing-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site
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