Managing Events

Adding an Event

Basic checklist

1. Add an entry to _data/events.yml.
2. Add a file to _events, whose name is the slug you added in the entry above, followed by .html. For example, learning-actions.html.

Adding an entry to _data/events.yml

While you can duplicate and edit an existing event entry from the yml file and figure the rest out by yourself, below are some comments on the keys and values.

• - name (required): the name of your event, meant for the readers of the website. Can be written like the title of a book, or a movie etc.

• slug (required): ideally a short version of the name of your event, always-snake-cased.

• category (required): should be the slug of one of the categories in _data/event-categories.yml. For example, fireside-chats, whats-new and so on.

• date_utc (required): always format it YYYY-MM-DD

• time_utc (required): always format it hh:mm, 24-hour. No AM or PM here. Please use UTC-0 times, the users’ browsers will display the times in their timezones.

• length (optional): any string. You can write 20 minutes, 2 hours. What you write will be displayed.

• registration_url (required): should look like https://app.livestorm.co/p/8b795ffa-845c-42d4-afa7-83cbd834ba75/form. To get a url like this for an event, in Livestorm, visit the event settings page, click on Share event, then Share registration page, then Get embed code and copy the content of the src attribute inside the iframe tag.

• intro (required): arbitrary html. By default, if only text, please wrap each paragraph in <p> tags.

• about (optional): typically one or two paragraphs, each written with a - before each one. Will be shown at the top of the main body of the event page, below the hero.

• recording_id (optional): the id of your YouTube video.

• guests (optional)
  • name (required)
  • image (required): save the image in images/events/guests, and add the filename here, for example firstname-lastname.png
  • title (required): actually, title and company. So CEO, Google.
  • bio (required): one paragraph of text.
• summary_filename (optional): if you want to add extra content about the event, save an html file in _includes/pages/event/summary and add its filename here. Please use the full filename, for example learning-actions.html. Better if the same name as the slug.