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The Netlify Preview has broken css as the app get's deployed from root but the asset links are under /blog directory. Need to figure out a way to get the correct preview in Netlify.

Followed the instructions in the readme.md to run the blog site on the server, faced this error repeatedly with every blog post that we have. I think the instructions are bit outdated.

ERROR: Could not process blog/announce-oyo-rooms-as-accomodation-partner-2018.md
  | Failed loading extension "codehilite(css_class=highlight)".
  |___
  | Traceback (most recent call last):
  |   File "/home/vipulgupta2048/.virtualenvs/pycon-blog/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pelican/generators.py", line 502, in generate_context
  |     context_sender=self)
  |   File "/home/vipulgupta2048/.virtualenvs/pycon-blog/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pelican/readers.py", line 459, in read_file
  |     content, reader_metadata = reader.read(path)
  |   File "/home/vipulgupta2048/.virtualenvs/pycon-blog/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pelican/readers.py", line 236, in read
  |     self._md = Markdown(extensions=self.extensions)
  |   File "/home/vipulgupta2048/.virtualenvs/pycon-blog/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/markdown/core.py", line 100, in __init__
  |     configs=kwargs.get('extension_configs', {}))
  |   File "/home/vipulgupta2048/.virtualenvs/pycon-blog/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/markdown/core.py", line 126, in registerExtensions
  |     ext = self.build_extension(ext, configs.get(ext, {}))
  |   File "/home/vipulgupta2048/.virtualenvs/pycon-blog/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/markdown/core.py", line 166, in build_extension
  |     module = importlib.import_module(ext_name)
  |   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 37, in import_module
  |     __import__(name)
  | ImportError: Failed loading extension "codehilite(css_class=highlight)".

As we near the conference, we can work for executing the final touches. Here are some changes that could be made:-

• Overflowing Google Developers logo in Desktop.
  
• The Devsprints blog to be linked with the Understanding Devsprints post to increase pingback. (Want to know what PyCon DevSprints, read this)
• Since DevSprints are now paid, I recommend editing the Understanding DevSprints blog and adding the tickets link there as well.
• Updates the tickets blog, to be a reference for the next year's conference.
• Go Jek logo is bit blurry (Should we swap it out for one of higher res or is it the one that was provided.)

Do recommend more, if you see one.

In order to fix the situation which can be seen below

It's a better option to shift the logo after the first paragraph of the blog. This way it's not rendered in the feed on the main PyCon India website. I'm sending a PR to resolve this issue soon.

Use this for reference - https://in.pycon.org/blog/2017/understanding-dev-sprints.html

A Blog is needed to announce Microsoft as Platinum Sponsor like [0] and [1].
Write-up can be taken from here
The Microsoft logo can be copied from here.
[0] https://in.pycon.org/blog/2017/announcing-tensorflow-platinum-sponsor.html
[1] https://in.pycon.org/blog/2017/announcing-hypertrack-platinum-sponsor.html

I shared the Dev Sprint page in fb https://www.facebook.com/kracekumar/posts/963189683733346, but the page title didn't appear.

Fix is simple, just add fb specific meta tag. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices#tags

https://in.pycon.org/blog/2015/

@vigneshsarma have a look

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  bug

The logos on the blog are huge especially square shaped logos from AQR and SOROCO.

There is some extra space on left side.

https://in.pycon.org/blog/2015/ doesn't look great. Here are some sample archive page samples

• http://logbook.spacetraveler.io/blog/archives/
• https://www.mnot.net/blog/all

@astronomersiva can you help ?

• A blog post is needed for the tickets and describing ticket structure of PyCon India 2018

Most nav links on the top navbar at https://in.pycon.org/blog/2015/registrations-open.html are broken.

E.g. Clicking on Home or PyConIndia logo takes me to https://in.pycon.org/blog/2015/registrations-open.html#home

http://www.zeomega.com/wp-content/uploads/WEB-235-ZeOmega-Logo.png

The feed can be used to pull data and display it on the pycon website in the lastest news section.

This needs to be dynamic and set to current page title - https://github.com/pythonindia/inpycon-blog/blob/master/themes/inpycon/templates/base.html#L20

Now it's just showing "PyCon in Bangalore in 2016" for all pages.

Heading tag h2 holds somewhat greenish color which does not match the overall theme of the blog which is blue. A PR is needed to patch it up.

It'd be great to add a hover effect on the social media icons.
Their shade would get darker when hovered.
Shall I take up this task?

After #150 we have a new way to add summaries to posts using <!-- PELICAN_END_SUMMARY --> markers instead of adding the summary in a summary key. Let's do this for all older blog posts that doesn't have this. This also helps to keep longer summaries.

Suggested improvements

• Align image in the centre
• links & image links should open in new tab

I'd suggest using Pipfile for dependency management and pipenv for managing virtual environment.

Due to the images being non-responsive to the window width the display is breaking.
Need to make the width response with respect to window size.

2017 CFP blog needs 2016 video link to PyCon India.

Make the navbar of the blog same as the website https://in.pycon.org/2018/

Change in theme for the entire blog is required to meet the look of PyCon India 2017 website.

Even after pressing ctrl + c, the server keeps running in the background.

This is annoying because while switching branches, random lines are printed in the shell and there seems to be no way to stop this as well(other than pressing ctrl + c each time this is done to recover the cursor)

Create a new blog using the write-up from this PR
Also, add the image 'after' the write-up reason for which is explained here

You have to use the write-up

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We encourage the use of FOSS tools through various activities such as Textbook Companions, Lab Migration, Workshops, Conferences, Forums, Software Development and Others.
We also develop and upgrade existing tools to meet the requirements in academia and research.
The FOSSEE project is based at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) and is funded by the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Government of India.

Use this write-up to create the blog.
Pipal Academy is a collective of experienced technologists, who care deeply about the art of software development. They offer in-depth courses on niche technical topics. Pipal Academy regularly conducts public workshops in Bangalore and also offer on-site corporate training. Their courses are targeted at professional software developers and they make sure they are hands-on and interactive.

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At the core of what we do are our people who deeply value execution, passion, integrity, customers, and community.

Logo : From website repo

Since we are putting efforts to get more and more people to read the blog and increase traffic, I would like to suggest the use of "Read More" tags for the blog. This helps in improving both the UI/UX

Bloggers would know the benefit of this, the reader who lands on the blog would be able to see more than one post at any point of time and have to traverse fewer blogs too, if he is looking for other information. This is a problem since the webpage has become too long because of blog post of 2016/7. It's just a suggestion, all views on this are appreciated.

The read more tag could be accomplished using the details tag in HTML

Few things that I have in mind:

https://sharebutton.co/
https://www.kurtnoble.com/labs/rrssb

Screenshot:

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Logo: from website repo

• Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
  I feel like this is something we have been missing in PyCon India blogs for some time now. Having author tags is a great way to credit the writers for the blogs and can be done pretty easily by adding it to our template.

Roadlocks

• All the posts from this point before won't have any author tags and will possibly lead to errors (I have to test this)
• If there are no errors, we have to leave them empty or give them a default value. Which is okay.
  What do you all think?

The Venue and Dates need correction at the site.

I was just going over the old blog posts that I wrote (being a bit nostalgic, I reckon) I observed some images in the one of the old blog posts either missing or in poor shape (orientation all over the place)

Since, the people have the option to scroll down to them and are visible to everybody. We should at least fix them up. Would help in keeping the site, well maintained.

Github templates are needed to help out folks who are new and want to create an issue or raise pull request. These are the following work that need to be done

• Add CONTRIBUTING.md
• Add link to CONTRIBUTING.md in README.md
• Add ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md
• Add PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

Category: Silver Sponsor

This should go in single blog post

Zeomega

Details at pythonindia/inpycon2018#151 (comment)

DBS

Description: Yet to receive
Logo: From PyCon India 2018 website repo

PyCon India recently announced about the community spaces and how one can apply for that. A blog is needed regarding the same. One has to use the same email [1] from the mailing list for the blog.
[1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/inpycon/2017-October/011197.html

Category: Gold Sponsor

Description: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hmKJTqde2TvwAiB2JzCO8-9GMd1UxlSICGLd3gon0Lk
Logo: From PyCon India 2018 website repo

On line 15 and 17 in understanding-dev-sprints-2018.md renamed "Preferrably" to "Preferably" and "annouced" to "announced"

Category : Gold Sponsor

Description: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GDBkiTjLQEBgCGJcWTjqq9hodjrDK1nf/view?usp=sharing
Logo: From PyCon India 2018 Website repo

Do we have any from previous year PyCon ? If not we should create one.

The favicon in use for the blog hasn't been changed since it was applied in 2017, as Pycon India 2018 has a new logo (looks pretty good). We should use the official logo to maintain uniformity throughout the websites.

• Replace favicon and delete old unused media related to it.

Also, it could be one of the cases, where developers like to say.
"This is not a bug, but a feature." 😆

Sponsor Blog posts needs to be created as per the given information

Description & logos at:
pythonindia/inpycon2018#151