Software Carpentry is now running three events a week. That number could double by the end of 2015 but only if we can streamline setup and organization. The goal of this project is to build a web-based workshop administration application using Django to do that. It is not intended to be visible to the general public, or even to instructors (at least initially --- we may add that later). Instead, the target audience is administrators, most of whom are non-programmers, who need to keep track of what workshops are being arranged, when they're supposed to occur, who's teaching what, and so on.
To get started:
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Install Django and its dependencies.
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Setup your local database. There are two ways you can do this.
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If you have access to the legacy data:
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Create an empty database by running:
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Fill that database by running:
$ make import
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Otherwise set up the redacted data with:
$ make database
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Create a administrator account.
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Start a local Django development server by running:
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Open http://localhost:8000/workshops/ in your browser and start clicking.
Use the administrator account that you created.
Note: please check with us or open a discussion issue before adding any new features. A few things have to get built in order to meet present demand, and they should take precedence over everything else.