This lesson teaches the basics of creating, configuring, and updating a static website with GitHub Pages and Jekyll. The lesson is aimed at researchers and research software engineers who understand what a variable is and are familiar with the GitHub web interface. Read more about the target audience and learning objectives on the lesson homepage

The lesson is currently under active development, with collaborative sprints taking place monthly through the remaining months of 2020. The authors hope it will be ready for beta testing (i.e. ready to be taught by other Carpentries Instructors) by the beginning of 2021. We would be delighted if you contributed to making that happen! To find out more about what needs to be done and what's happened so far, please take a look at:

• the open Issues and Pull Requests
• the notes from previous lesson sprints in our HackMD
• the #jekyll-pages-lesson Slack channel we're using for discussion on The Carpentries Slack

If you'd like to ask the maintainers anything, we'd love to hear from you! You can open an issue here or post on the Slack channel linked above.

Current maintainers of this lesson are

• Renato Alves
• Julian Bauer
• Anne Fouilloux
• Toby Hodges
• Aleksandra Nenadic
• Sarah Stevens

A list of contributors to the lesson can be found in AUTHORS

To cite this lesson, please consult with CITATION