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.

Development

If you want to participate in the dev and make this thing looks better:

Get the repo

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

Manage events

Add events in events.json file.

Note: event closest in time should be the first item of the list

Test

The following command generate the index.html file and run a local server

./test.sh

UI is then available on port 8000

You can now tweak the html/css/js stuff :)

Docker image

Create the image

$ docker build -t sophia.event .

Run the image

$ docker run -p 8000:80 -d sophia.event

UI is then available on port 8000

Status

Early hyper manual version, a lot of stuff needs to be done

• 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
• create a backend to automatically fetch events form list of sources
• Add tab listing past events
• modify css to have more items on the same page
• automate deployment of Docker image
• Expose RSS feed
• Add TLS
• have fun on this side project :)

Credit

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