Purpose

Setup a simple web site, with an easy to remember URL: http://sophia.events, and acting as a hub which lists the incoming technical events in Sophia-Antipolis.

The rational

A lot of great stuff is happening in Sophia:

• meetups
  • Docker
  • Hashicorp User Group
  • CNCF
• events from TelecomValley
• events from RivieraJug
• ...

... but it's not always easy to follow all the sources.

Some people ask about a place that lists them all... here is a simple attempt that tries to answer this need.

How to run it

Clone de repository

$ git clone https://github.com/lucj/sophia.events.git

Run the wrapper scrip

$ cd www && ./test.sh

A web server is run in a Docker container. The port to use is provided at the end of the output.

Status

TODO

• make a clean and appealing header
• display event logo in the corner opposite to the date
• define events.json file describing all the events
• use simple Mustache templating to build index.html
• Add tab listing past events
• modify css to have more items on the same page
• Expose RSS feed
• Add TLS
• create a backend to automatically fetch events form list of sources
• have fun on this side project :)

Credit

The first version is based on the vertical timeline created by Sava Lazic