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:star2: Website for the Chi Hack Night.

Chi Hack Night

Website for Chi Hack Night.

Chi Hack Night is Chicago's weekly event to build, share & learn about civic tech.

Hosted by DataMade on their static Jekyll server.

Running locally

This website is built using Jekyll. You will need to install it first.

git clone https://github.com/chihacknight/chihacknight.org.git
cd chihacknight.org
jekyll serve -w

Then open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:4000

Run in a Docker container

If you have Docker installed, can avoid some of the hassle of installing Jekyll and/or Ruby by pulling from the offical Jekyll image, installing dependancies, and serving locally.

This is especially handy if you're on Windows machine:

docker run --rm --label=jekyll --volume=%CD%:/srv/jekyll  -it -p 4000:4000 jekyll/jekyll set JEKYLL_VERSION=3.0.2 | bundle install | jekyll serve

Dependencies

• Jekyll - Static site generator built in Ruby
• Bootstrap 3 - HTML and CSS layouts
• DataTables - for searching and sorting tables
• Mustache - templating library for javascript (used on projects page)
• jQuery Address - for deep linking URLs on the projects page

Projects and People

The projects and people pages are powered by Github and civic-json-worker, a script we run every 5 minutes that fetches data from the Github API.

The JSON files are backed up every hour in the civic-json-files repository.