Clean Slate

work in progress

Creating a Clean Slate

1. clone last year's GitHub repo
2. delete the ".git" folder

Clean _data directory

Keep

• examples dir, contains the templates for future files

Edit

• conf.yml, the sites configuration file
  1. Remove all of the old urls and links
  2. turn all toggles to false
• past-keynotes.yml
  1. Copy the keynote speaker information from the speakers.yml file into this file
  2. Add their year
  3. Move their images from /assets/img/speakers to /assets/img/past-keynotes/
  4. Update their image-src
  5. Make sure they have a post entry in the /_posts/keynotes dir

Example Frontmatter for the past-keynote posts:

layout: presentation
title: 'CODE FOR LIBERATION'
speaker: kate-krauss
slides: http://2016.code4lib.org/slides/Kate_Krauss_Code4Lib_Keynote.pptx
categories: past-keynote

Remove

• day*_menu.yml
• dinner.yml
• duty_officers*.yml
• locations.yml
• *-proposals.yml files
• scheduke
• speakers.yml
• sponsors.yml

Delete unneeded media files

• these often live in assets/img, for instance past year's speakers images
• do not delete the past-keynotes images, "nopics", "badges", "clockface" or "persistent" directories

Remove all the presentations and workshops

• Just remove all the html files from _posts
• do not remove the keynotes or examples dir

Comment out or delete content from html file

Excluding "assets" and any "_*" dirs,work through all of the other directories and files. Either comment out or remove any information that is no longer valid.

Create a new Google Analytics property & add new web committee members

• ensure you're a member of the Code4Lib Website Working Group in Google Analytics
• create a new property named "YYYY Conference" with the URL format of yyyy.code4lib.org
• update the tracking code in "_includes/analytics.html" with the new property's ID (e.g. the ga('create', 'UA-12345678-9', 'auto'); line)
• add any new members of the website group to the analytics account under the User Management section
  • they need to have Google-related emails :(
  • give everyone read & analyze, edit, collaborate permissions
  • adding user's to the web property rather than the root of the group might make the most sense

Commit to the new conf site's repo

Migrate last year's GitHub wiki from one repository to another

# clone the 2 wikis
git clone https://github.com/2017.code4lib.org.wiki.git
git clone https://github.com/2018.code4lib.org.wiki.git
# copy last year into this year, overwriting whatever exists
cp 2017.code4lib.org.wiki/* 2018.code4lib.org.wiki
# add changes & push to github
cd 2018.code4lib.org.wiki
git add .
git commit -m 'copy wiki from last year'
git push

Note that a lot of the internal links within the wiki (e.g. in the _Sidebar.md menu) will still reference the last year's URL and so will need to be updated. A search-and-replace of the old year for the new should do it.