Clean Slate

work in progress

Creating a Clean Slate

1. clone last year's GitHub repo
2. delete the ".git" folder

Clean _data directory

Keep

• examples dir, contains the templates for future files

Edit

• conf.yml, the sites configuration file
  1. Remove all of the old urls and links
  2. turn all toggles to false
• past-keynotes.yml
  1. Copy the keynote speaker information from the speakers.yml file into this file
  2. Add their year
  3. Move their images from /assets/img/speakers to /assets/img/past-keynotes/
  4. Update their image-src
  5. Make sure they have a post entry in the /_posts/keynotes dir

Example Frontmatter for the past-keynote posts:

layout: presentation
title: 'CODE FOR LIBERATION'
speaker: kate-krauss
slides: http://2016.code4lib.org/slides/Kate_Krauss_Code4Lib_Keynote.pptx
categories: past-keynote

Remove

• day*_menu.yml
• dinner.yml
• duty_officers*.yml
• locations.yml
• *-proposals.yml files
• scheduke
• speakers.yml
• sponsors.yml

Delete unneeded media files

• these often live in assets/img, for instance past year's speakers images
• do not delete the past-keynotes images, "nopics", "badges", "clockface" or "persistent" directories

Remove all the presentations and workshops

• Just remove all the html files from _posts
• do not remove the "keynotes" dir

Comment out or delete content from html file

Excluding "assets" and any "_*" dirs,work through all of the other directories and files. Either comment out or remove any information that is no longer valid.

Create a new Google Analytics property & add new web committee members

Commit to the new conf site's repo

Migrate last year's GitHub wiki from one repository to another

# clone the 2 wikis
git clone https://github.com/2017.code4lib.org.wiki.git
git clone https://github.com/2018.code4lib.org.wiki.git
# copy last year into this year, overwriting whatever exists
cp 2017.code4lib.org.wiki/* 2018.code4lib.org.wiki
# add changes & push to github
cd 2018.code4lib.org.wiki
git add .
git commit -m 'copy wiki from last year'
git push

Note that a lot of the internal links within the wiki (e.g. in the _Sidebar.md menu) will still reference the last year's URL and so will need to be updated. A search-and-replace of the old year for the new should do it.