This is the content for the website of the FOSS4GNL 2025 conference (to be) held on July 111 at the Wageningen University.
Organised together with the GeoDesk Wageningen.
Link: https://2024.foss4g.nl
When organizing a new FOSS4GNL create a new website as follows. In the example the new FOSS4G is in 2024, the previous in 2023. All edits can be done on GitHub for the initial setup and some settings are done at YourHosting.
Go to the settings and mark as template. See image:
Create a new repo called foss4gnl/2024.foss4g.nl from the foss4gnl/2023.foss4g.nl template repo. See image
- GitHub: Fo to
Settingsof the new repro and thenPages - setup Pages to point to main branch
- Press
Savenow you can add the custom domain. Make this point tofoss4g.nl
- GitHub: Fo to
Settingsof the new repro and thenPages - GitHub: set custom domain to 2023.foss4g.nl.
- in root dir of previeous year repro , change CNAME file to 2023.foss4g.nl
- Go to YourHosting account.
- Go to
DNS-en redirectbeheerthenfoss4g.nl Beheer
- At
DNS beheer:foss4g.nladd a new CNAME 2023.foss4g.nl and point to GitHub like the CNAME 2021.foss4g.nl or other editions:
- Press
DNS Save
Changes may take a while.
That's it! Now the website should be updated
The 2018-version of this website was originally made by Jasper Roest. For the 2019 edition it was further developed by Tom Commandeur @tcommandeur et al of TU Delft.
For the the 2021 edition 2021 edition (Enschede) it was further developed by @justb4, Erik Meerburg et al.
For purposes of maintainability each FOSS4GNL site was given its own GH repo by Just van den Broecke @justb4.
First as https://foss4g.nl and to be later available via the URL https://2023.foss4g.nl
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Project is built on top of Jekyll - simple, blog-aware, static site generator. Jekyll also happens to be the engine behind GitHub Pages, which means you can use Jekyll to host your website from GitHub’s servers for free. Learn more about Jekyll.
Template is brought by GDG Lviv team.
Live demo http://gdg-x.github.io/zeppelin/
Automated version with Grunt https://github.com/gdg-x/zeppelin-grunt
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- Fork this repo
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- Update
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- Push changes to
gh-pagesbranch - Enjoy your awesome DevFest site at
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Or watch project presentation from GDG[x] Townhall meeting. Slides available here
Check if you have all requirements for local environment. To install all development dependencies install Bundler.
gem install bundlerand run next command from root folder:
bundle installTo start Jekyll run:
jekyll serve -wSite will be available at http://127.0.0.1:4000/zeppelin/ or http://localhost:4000/zeppelin/ (on Windows)
NOTE: in this mode all changes to html and data files will be automatically regenerated, but after changing _config.yml you have to restart server.
Note: You need to install Node.js
To watch changes of .sass files and compile it to the .css on a fly change property safe: true to safe: false in _config.yml.
Note: It works only on local machine, because GitHub runs Jekyll in --save mode
Learn more about Sass development from documentation.
You can optimize images and minify css and javascript automatically (for now only on Windows).
But for Mac OS users available amazing tool - imageoptim. Thanks @raphaelsavina for link.
Optimize all images by running this script from /automation/images/ folder:
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minify_js.batLearn more about available optimization options from documentation.
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- Design and web development: Oleh Zasadnyy
- Idea: Vitaliy Zasadnyy
Maintainers: @tasomaniac and @ozasadnyy.
Project is published under the MIT license. Feel free to clone and modify repo as you want, but don't forget to add reference to authors :)



