Building the new website

HSF Organisation
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I meant “currently”, as there’s been no progress on it yet. This topic was for people to say they’d like to help.

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I’d like to help.

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OK, I’ve thrown together a minimum viable website very quickly using Django/Bootstrap and it’s now live (modulo the rather long DNS timeouts on this zone).

Code’s here. I’ll hopefully have time to add membership signup/approval at some point soon.

I’m aware there were one or two other things on the old wiki, I will dump those out and we can decide what to do with them.

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Quick heads up that the GH issue for this is here: https://github.com/UKHackspaceFoundation/foundation/issues/18

I believe Tamarisk would like to help out with design/frontend.

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I’m happy to do some more work on this, but I’m going to need consensus first on whether we’re happy to build on the quick boilerplate that I threw together.

(I’d personally prefer python/django as it’s what I’m most familiar with and I can hash out the boring membership/payment stuff fairly quickly.)

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Let’s go with python/django.

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Can we get some idea of if the new website is separate from the membership system, the way Russ just described it made it sound one and the same.

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I think we envisioned it as part of the same system for simplicities sake however, we’re open to suggestions.

tamarisk

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discussion continues here: Website Working Group

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I also will love to help. Please share us your thoughts.

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Anyone know who manages the data behind the Hackspace map? Somehow Newbury Hackspace has been placed in Rugby. Took two membership enquiries from people two hours drive away before I figured out what happened :slight_smile:

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I can sort that out given the correct data.

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Thanks, @stanto. Postcode is RG19 3AZ, we’re at the junction of The Moors and Lower Way in Thatcham, Berkshire. 51.401381N, 1.264528W, SU512671.

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This should be correct now, had to sort out my site account :slight_smile:

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I think the longitude was entered as East instead of West. Newbury is currently quite a damp hackspace :slight_smile:

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I tapped in exactly what you gave me :slight_smile:

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@stanto If I type in the long/lat as N/W into Google maps it puts the cursor in the right place, if I change the W to E or put a minus sign at the beginning it puts the cursor where it is on the Hackspace map. Could the long/lat translation be ignoring the N and W suffixes and assume that each are Northing and Easting respectively? Either way: If you could adjust the easting so that it shows -1.264528E instead of 1.264528W I’d very much appreciate it :slight_smile:

Thanks again for your help.

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Calling any python developers - fancy lending a hand to the web dev effort? …our current volunteers are struggling with other commitments, so progress is slow. Shout here if interested/available

thanks
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Or a Node <-> Python converter… :stuck_out_tongue:

Would have happily helped out otherwise.

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I can do a bit of debugging issue tracking, docs but not much on the full framework coding.

I do use static site generator called Hugo, I guess it uses a similar system?