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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
- Fork 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.)
- 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 NearlyFreeSpeech.net site
- Ask Asheesh (ie needs better instructions)
Set up domain name with linode.com
- Log into linode.com (username openhatch) and create a new CNAME record
  - Go to DNS manager and click 'Create new CNAME record'
  - Alias <campusname>.openhatch.org to oh<campusname>.nfshost.com
  - Also alias www.<campusname> to <campusname>
SSH into linode
- cp -a old_dir new_dir
- cd new_dir
- rm -rf data
- git clone git://github.com/openhatch/oh-whatever-it-is.git data
- edit and run ./update_and_push
  - row 6: change url
  - row 15: change ssh command

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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.)
+** 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.)
-* Customize
+** Customize
-** Change repository name to reflect event
-** Change colors if needed (I like to use school colors)
+*** Change repository name to reflect event
-** Change text: date, time, location, name of hosts
+*** 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.
+*** 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.
+** Add, commit, and push changes back to Github.
-* Ask Asheesh to create the Nearly Free Speech.net site.
+* Set up NearlyFreeSpeech.net site
-** Hopefully this will have better instructions eventually
+** Ask Asheesh (ie needs better instructions)
+* Set up domain name with linode.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 linode.com (username openhatch) and create a new CNAME record
+*** Go to DNS manager and click 'Create new CNAME record'
-** Alias <campusname>.openhatch.org to oh<campusname>.nfshost.com
-** Also alias www.<campusname> to <campusname>
+*** Alias <campusname>.openhatch.org to oh<campusname>.nfshost.com
+*** Also alias www.<campusname> to <campusname>
 * SSH into linode
-** cp -a some_old_dir some_new_dir
+** cp -a old_dir new_dir
-** cd some_new_dir
+** cd new_dir
 ** rm -rf data
 ** git clone git://github.com/openhatch/oh-whatever-it-is.git data
 ** edit and run ./update_and_push
+*** row 6: change url
+*** row 15: change ssh command