The student site for GCI 2016 Students.
Thoroughly read our contributing guide before sending in your Pull Requests. Happy Contributing!
Follow the Installation wiki to get the site running on your local environment.
To add a mentor open the file mentors.yml in _data folder and please maintain the following format EXACTLY (replacing values where indicated):
- name: Mentor's name
github: Mentor's github username
image: mentor's_image
twitter: Mentor's twitter id
facebook: Mentor's facebook id
lat: Mentor's latitude
lng: Mentor's longitudeIMPORTANT:
- All images must be optimized before uploaded to the repo via commit or PR. You may use any image optimizer of your choice.
- The images should be 240 x 240 pixels.
- Adding Facebook, Twitter, Github, etc. is not obliged. But if you do not want to include social media accounts, please do not provide empty fields like
facebook:. Ask the mentors if you do not know their accounts. - If you do not know the mentors' location, ask them to go to the official FOSSASIA geolocation website https://fossasia.github.io/geolocation and give you their latitude and longitude.
- Avoid using contractions such as can't, don't, etc. If there is no choice (e.g. the name has single quote mark) put double quotes (
") around that part. - Try to use abbreviations in your name wherever possible, i.e. restrict it to 13 letters (including spaces), otherwise it might be truncated automatically. However, the name will be displayed completely when you hover on it on the website.
To add yourself to student section you need to open the file students.yml in _data folder and please maintain the following format EXACTLY (replacing values where indicated):
- name: Your name
github: Your github username
image: your_image
twitter: Your twitter id
facebook: Your facebook id
bio: Some bio about yourself
lat: Your latitude
lng: Your longitudeIMPORTANT:
- All images must be optimized before uploaded to the repo via commit or PR. You may use any image optimizer of your choice.
- The images should be 240 x 240 pixels.
- Adding Facebook, Twitter, Github, etc. is not obliged. But if you do not want to include your social media accounts, please do not provide empty fields like
facebook:. - To find your lattitude and longitude go to the official FOSSASIA geolocation website https://fossasia.github.io/geolocation.
- Avoid changing the whole file just to add yourself. Line endings should not change.
- Avoid using contractions such as can't, don't, etc. If there is no choice (e.g. your name has single quote mark) put double quotes (
") around that part. - Try to use abbreviations in your name wherever possible, i.e. restrict your name in 13 letters (including spaces), otherwise your name might be truncated automatically. However, your name will be displayed completely when you hover on it on the website.
To add your blog post, you need to open the file blogs.yml in _data folder. Maintain the following format EXACTLY (replacing values where indicated) to enter your blog in this website.
- name: Your name
blog: https://yourbloglink.com
blog_img: your_image
article: Article title
article_link: https://yourarticlelink.comIMPORTANT:
- The image should be placed inside
images/blogsfolder, andyour_imageshould be the file's name, for examplemypost.png. Make sure that the images are in 16:9 aspect ratio. - If you do not provide a blog image, a default image will be displayed.
- Adding article and article_link is optional, unless your task requires it.
To add your logos, you need to open the file logos.yml in the _data folder and please
maintain the following format EXACTLY (replacing values where indicated) to enter your logo in this website:
- author: Your name
img: your_imageand place your logo in /images/logos folder and your_image should be the name of your file.
IMPORTANT:
- Please resize your image to 400px x 400px (w x h) OR in relative proportion before uploading. We don't want logos that have high dimensions or large size.
- The students uploading the images of dimensions below those mentioned above, would not be accepted as they would disturb the UX of the site. Please make the logo in the proportion to the dimensions mentioned above, crop/resize by any softwares or online tools, upload, and create a pull request.
The website shows an ism slider which has slides, to input another slide please go to slides.yml in the _data folder and maintain the following format EXACTLY (replacing values where indicated) to enter a new slide.
- caption: main_heading
img: image_of_the_slide
exp-1: First sentence explanation
exp-2: Second sentence explanation
exp-3: Third sentence explanationIMPORTANT:
- Put the images in the
/images/folder. All images must be optimized before uploaded to the repo via commit or PR, you may use any image optimizer of your choice. - Adding
actionandactionURLis not obliged. If you do not add, please do not provide empty fields likeaction:. If you do, please provide bothactionandactionURL. - Try to equalize the length of
exp-1,exp-2, andexp-3in combination withaction.
Probably the easiest way to seek help is to comment on your Task instance. Please understand that it is not easy for mentors to stay available 24/7 to reply to every comment.
You can instead participate in various chatrooms where you can ask both students and mentors for help. Here are few links to chatrooms that you could join for support:
- Slack
- Visit here to get invitation to join the chatrooms of FOSSASIA in slack.
- Once you get the invitations in your mail, sign into the slack and join the #gci chatroom.
- And now you can share your queries with all the mentors and students of FOSSASIA
- Gitter
- Visit here and sign in with your GitHub account.
- After thats it simply joining the chatrooms by clicking on Join Room
- Here are some links to some of project's chatroom:
- Google Groups
- Visit here and join the mailing list.
You can find more information about different mailing lists and chatrooms for different projects here
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Typescript
Django
Laravel
Facebook
Microsoft
Google
Alibaba
D3
Tencent
