EuroSciPy Website

New framework for EuroSciPy website, starting 2025.

Setup

1. Select the right Python version, the one used and tested is stored in ./.python-version, however, most relatively current versions should work. Use whatever Python version manager you prefer, for example pyenv.
2. Create a virtual environment and activate it, so that the dependencies for this project won't clash with other, locally installed libraries: python -m venv ./venv && source venv/bin/activate.
3. Install the dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt.

Run locally

make run

Deployment/Hosting

The site is deployed as a github page and a workflow will take care of that part automatically. Have a look at ./.github/workflows/gh-pages.yml if you are interested in the details.

Content

Here is how you can add content like sponsors or blog posts to the EuroSciPy website.

Adding talks

Do not add talks directly in this repository. They are pulled from Pretalx and the talks pages will be automatically generated and deployed every 6 hours.

Adding a sponsor

To add a new sponsor, you need to do two things:

1. Copy the svg logo to ./assets/static/sponsors/
2. Add the information for the sponsor to ./databags/sponsors.json
3. Run make sponsor-pages. This will generate the individual sponsor page, based on the data in the databag.

Blog Posts

1. Create a new branch
2. Add a folder for the new blog post under ./content/blog/<blogpost-title>
3. Add a contents.lr file to this folder.

This file will contain the blog post (as markdown) and some additional metadata. Here is an example on how this could look like:

title: Something exciting just happened!
---
pub_date: 2025-05-07
---
body:

# The air is thrumming with excitement

Something unbelievable just happened in the **Python** world. Let me tell you all about it:

The title field is a simple string.

The pub_date field is the date, formatted like this: YYYY-mm-dd.

the body is the blog post as markdown.

4. Commit the changes to your new branch
5. Push the changes
6. Open a PR
7. Merge the PR, once it has been approved

The new blog post will automatically be deployed, once it has been merged.

Add any images you might want to use to the same folder you added the contents.lr file to, so that all the content is contained in one place.

Using Pixi

Optionally, you can use Pixi.
You need to have Pixi installed.

Build locally

Run:

pixi run build

Adding a sponsor

See above.
Instead of step 3 do:

pixi run sponsors

List all tasks

pixi task list