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Ideally, there would be a step to generate the minimised CSS as part of make build, but that's less important.

https://github.com/PyconUK/2016.pyconuk.org/blame/master/content/index.md#L5-L6 renders as two <h1>s with a line break between them:

        <h1>PyCon UK is your community-led</h1>

        <br/><h1>volunteer-run conference</h1>

Is there a better way of achieving the same visual effect?

Reported by @Avaren. I'm not sure what we can do about this.

This would be really useful information for people contemplating possible talk proposals, as it helps guide topic choice/scope etc.

The front page links to http://2016.pyconuk.org/code-day/, the page for the code day/workshops.

It seems fairly out-of-date – still asking for CFPs and with a fairly sparse schedule, when there’s already a fairly rounded-out programme. It should be updated with pointers to the latest information.

GitLab supports TLS out of the box. They do not support SSL.

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/04/11/tutorial-securing-your-gitlab-pages-with-tls-and-letsencrypt/

As an added bonus it will let you build using django-amber without having to push to branches etc.

Hi,

I've had two people ask me if there's going to be a kids day at this year's PyCon UK.

If there is, and given that families like to plan ahead because coordinating kids and stuff is hard if you need to travel across the country to Cardiff, please can details of this be put in an obvious place on the website.

Thanks!

Related to #37
Came up in #75

@hawkz Can you do anything to make the lists at http://2016.pyconuk.org/programme/ more readable?

Doesn't need to be anything fancy, as we'll eventually have a schedule (like http://2015.pyconuk.org/schedule/flat/) on this page.

$ DEBUG=True python manage.py serve
<snip>

System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
September 24, 2016 - 14:19:25
Django version 1.9.7, using settings 'pyconuk.settings'
Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
Internal Server Error: /
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/kristian/git/2016.pyconuk.org/.env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/compressor/base.py", line 260, in precompile
    mod = import_module(mod_name)
  File "/Users/kristian/git/2016.pyconuk.org/.env/lib/python3.5/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 969, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 956, in _find_and_load_unlocked
ImportError: No module named 'lessc {infile} {outfile}'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):

<snip>

compressor.exceptions.FilterError: /bin/sh: lessc: command not found

[24/Sep/2016 14:19:25] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 500 235735

From the README:

This site uses django-amber_. To install django-amber and other dependencies, run pip install -r requirements.txt. django-amber is only known to work with Python 3.5.

I did this, cf. the following:

$ pip freeze
/opt/badger/2016.pyconuk.org/.env/lib/python3.5/distutils/__init__.py:4: PendingDeprecationWarning: the imp module is deprecated in favour of importlib; see the module's documentation for alternative uses
  import imp
Django==1.9.7
django-amber==0.5.0
django-appconf==1.0.2
django-compressor==2.1
django-markdown-deux==1.0.5
http-crawler==0.1.2
lxml==3.6.0
markdown2==2.3.1
python-dateutil==2.5.3
pytz==2016.6.1
PyYAML==3.11
rcssmin==1.0.6
requests==2.10.0
rjsmin==1.0.12
six==1.10.0
tinycss2==0.5
vobject==0.9.3
webencodings==0.5

Is the README true and total and the error message is misleading and lack of lessc is a noncritical failure, or is there a missing dependency declaration?

Regarding the call for papers http://2016.pyconuk.org/cfp/

The date is not consistent. The first mention:

"Submissions are open until June 28th"

Then next time:

"The deadline for submissions is the end of Wednesday 15th June (UTC)."

I am assume the 15th June is the correct one?

Reported by @snim2.

What's the plan here? are we re-using last years designs? or something different? What's the print deadline?

This has been a TODO item in pre-flight-checks.sh since March.

Given that at least one broken link crept through in its absence (see #141), might be nice to turn it back on.

There are more pages on the site than space in the global navbar, so we need to decide what we include.

For now, we need to have at least:

• CFP
• Registration
• Code of Conduct
• Sponsorship
• Contact

These can change -- for instance, the CFP could become Programme once the CFP closes, and we could drop the Registration link once we've sold all the tickets.

Others:

• Venue
• Diversity & Accessibility
• News
• Speaker mentors
• Education
• Science

I think some of these don't belong in the global navbar, but could be linked to from the text of the front page.

I'm sure @evildmp will have thoughts.

What the title says.

On an up-to-date vanilla Debian Jessie with the latest official Firefox. Happens on all pages. See attached screenie.

In previous years we had a few more links in the nav bar of the site. This year we have fewer (and adding more tends to split the nav bar onto two lines). However, there are some really important pages that readers will have to dig pretty hard to find. This includes the research and teachers pages, the diversity statement, the speaker mentor page; and when the DjangoGirls and Trans*Code pages are added they will also be hard to find.

We need to think a bit more about the nav bar and the home page to bring some of these pages to the foreground. At the moment we risk teachers, DjangoGirls people, etc. looking briefly at the site and leaving.

That said, I'm not sure I have any concrete solutions, except perhaps making the nav bar font a little smaller :(

Before going live we manually caught a number of broken links and incorrect spellings of PyCon UK. Travis should be catching these problems for us.

Reported by @hjwp.

#283

("Having them in a way that looks rubbish" > "not having them at all", soz)

This page doesn't tell people how they can ask for a mentor to be assigned to them.

On the ticket package I have typed the numeral 1 into the input field for Self-funded ticket (3 days), but due to the width combined with my browsers font display (latest stable 64bit linux build of Chrome) I can't see the number.

See https://travis-ci.org/PyconUK/2016.pyconuk.org/builds/125716205 for an example.

The failure output is

remote: Invalid username or password.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://[email protected]/PyconUK/2016.pyconuk.org/'
make: *** [deploy] Error 128

http://2016.pyconuk.org/speaker-mentors/ links to http://2016.pyconuk.org/speaker-mentors/%3Ca%20href= due to a mangled a tag in the final section.

Hi @hawkz -- would you have a chance to look at improving the styling for the talks pages? They're currently on the https://github.com/PyconUK/2016.pyconuk.org/tree/inglesp-add-talks branch (see eg /talks/using-python-for-national-cipher-challenge/), and they look a bit austere.

The "hero" graphic is awesome.

However, there's nothing that tells me it's in Wales. Surely the conference should reflect the locale of the location? It could be any random Victorian town hall in the background. Why not add...

• Something Welsh in a speech bubble from the knight (the Welsh for "hello, welcome to PyconUK" is "Mae fy hofrenfad yn llawn o lysywod")
• A DRAGON.
• A male-voice choir.
• Daffs
• Welsh cakes.

Also, there's nothing I can see that tells me this is a graphic for a Python conference.

@hawkz could we have something like:

a:link.button {
    color: white;
    background-color: blue;
    border-color: black;
    border-radius: 5px;
    }

... but nicer?

How would we set the class in MarkDown?

Hi there,

I thought I'd kick this off with some thoughts.
What what I recall there was interest from Zeth in a 2016 Dr. Who themed concept to tie to Cardiff.

The other things that need a look are:

• Updated theme
• Better navigation
• Better sponsorship integration into template

What have I missed?

Viewing the homepage on an iPhone:

No margin on the left, text disappears off to the right.

I suspect this is the sponsor logos causing the page width to grow. I think I could have a stab at fixing this, but not before I get home from work.

Hello @hawkz, could we have some heading size/spacing re-adjustments please?

• h3 is a bit large
• h4 is too small, and its margin-bottom is excessive I think

http://2016.pyconuk.org/accommodation/ shows headings down to h4.

Thanks!

To help the process, could we compile a list of things needing design?
Like #63

Do we need any post-conference design, and should we be doing new design / advertising next years conference. (Really trying hard to get away from the last minute stuff / more notice, so I can contribute more)

GitHub has recently introduced SSL for all GH pages: https://help.github.com/articles/securing-your-github-pages-site-with-https/

Can we have a look and see if it's possible to enable for PyCon UK website? I'm sure we can for generic pages but I'm not sure if we can when we use a custom domain.

Cheers