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Note: This guideline is written by Shauna, for Shauna. You will likely have to adapt it to your needs/permissions - please do contact us if you need help!

To create an event webpage in the style of this one:

Building the website
- Create an organization for the school, for example: oh-hogwarts. Make sure the hello@ email address is used for account name.
- Fork the template repository into the organization account and rename to be a github.io page, for example: oh-hogwarts.github.io
- Edit the CNAME record in the template to redirect to the appropriate domain name, for example: hogwarts.openhatch.org
- Customize
  - Change repository name to reflect event
  - Change colors if needed (I like to use school colors)
  - Change text: date, time, location, name of hosts
  - Create a new sign up form for the event (may just duplicate previous ones) and change the link on the website.
- Add, commit, and push changes back to Github.
Set up domain name with cloudflare.com
- Log into cloudflare.com (username openhatch) and create a new CNAME record
  - Go to "DNS Settings" (it's an option in the drop-down in the right-most column)
  - Scroll to bottom of page to add two new records:
    - Type: CNAME
    - Alias <campusname>.openhatch.org to oh-<campusname>.github.io
    - Also alias www.<campusname> to <campusname>

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 To create an event webpage in the style of [http://wellesley.openhatch.org/ this one]:
+* Building the website
-* Fork [https://github.com/openhatch/oh-campus-template the template repository] (as Github limits the number of forks an individual can make of a single repo, you may need to fork a different oh-campus site or email Github to request your previous forks be made free-standing repositories.)
+** Create an organization for the school, for example: oh-hogwarts.  Make sure the hello@ email address is used for account name.
-* Customize
+** Fork [https://github.com/openhatch/oh-campus-template the template repository] into the organization account and rename to be a github.io page, for example: oh-hogwarts.github.io
-** Change repository name to reflect event
+** Edit the CNAME record in the template to redirect to the appropriate domain name, for example: hogwarts.openhatch.org
-** Change colors if needed (I like to use school colors)
+** Customize
-** Change text: date, time, location, name of hosts
+*** Change repository name to reflect event
-** Create a new sign up form for the event (may just duplicate previous ones) and change the link on the website.
+*** Change colors if needed (I like to use school colors)
-* Add, commit, and push changes back to Github.
+*** Change text: date, time, location, name of hosts
+*** Create a new sign up form for the event (may just duplicate previous ones) and change the link on the website.
-* Ask Asheesh to create the Nearly Free Speech.net site.
+** Add, commit, and push changes back to Github.
-** Hopefully this will have better instructions eventually
+* Set up domain name with cloudflare.com
-* Log into linode.com (username openhatch, password '''a terrible secret''') and create a new CNAME record
-** Go to DNS manager and click 'Create new CNAME record'
+** Log into cloudflare.com (username openhatch) and create a new CNAME record
+*** Go to "DNS Settings" (it's an option in the drop-down in the right-most column)
-** Alias <campusname>.openhatch.org to oh<campusname>.nfshost.com
+*** Scroll to bottom of page to add two new records:
-** Also alias www.<campusname> to <campusname>
+**** Type: CNAME
-* SSH into linode
+**** Alias <campusname>.openhatch.org to oh-<campusname>.github.io
-** cp -a some_old_dir some_new_dir
+**** Also alias www.<campusname> to <campusname>
-** cd some_new_dir
-** rm -rf data
-** git clone git://github.com/openhatch/oh-whatever-it-is.git data
-** edit and run ./update_and_push