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What needs to be done to prepare the virtual booth?

The exhibition website is a static site generated by Hugo (gohugo.io).

The FOSDEM team has set the theme and the structure, and we can add as many pages as we want. The code for the website currently lives at https://github.com/FOSDEM/stands-website. (NOTE: Documentation from FOSDEM team will be added shortly)

Setting up the Booth

To get started with adding content to the website, we need to do the following:

•  Create two git repositories (public), https://github.com/apache/comdev-fosdem-content and https://github.com/apache/comdev-fosdem-static
  
  •  one for your content (to be called content/stands/ApacheSoftwareFoundation
  •  one for your static files. 
•  Send both links to the FOSDEM team and make sure they can pull anonymously.
•  Add pages in any format Hugo accepts. (Note that we cannot add more levels (if you want a deeper structure, we need to ask the FOSDEM team).
•  Once every hour a script will rebuild the website.
•  We can add links to our own website(s) as well, but the FOSDEM team ask that we keep stand-related things on our stands website

Testing the booth works

This is what you should do to test

1. Download the repository.
2. Put your content directly in content/stands/your_stand and static/stands/your_stand. We'll use submodules to tie everything together, so the content should be at the root of your repository.
3. Run Hugo serve to test.

Also created (or improved the script enough to have it create) is a directory for each accepted stand, a .md file with the data for the overview and every theme; your tests should thus look more or less like the finished version.

Marketing and messages

For the booth to become a success we need to do both internal and external marketing. We will be promoting FOSDEM on the Community Development mailing lists and will ask Sally and Swapnil to help us with blog posts and news bulletins.

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