OKC.js

OKC.js is the Oklahoma City JavaScript users group. We meet on the third Tuesday of every month at 11:30am at StarSpace46 to teach, discuss, and learn about JavaScript and related web programming technologies. OKC.js follows the Techlahoma Code of Conduct.

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About OKC.js

⏳ What's the history of OKC.js?
OKC.js started in January 2012 with 72 attendees. We currently range from 50-100+ members at our lunch time meetup. We organize the meetup with a couple organizers and volunteers. If you're interested in helping out, send us an email, tweet or start contributing via GitHub.

🎯 What are common topics at OKC.js
Topics at OKC.js range from JS on the client side, server side, optimization, frameworks, libraries, testing, IDE tips, best practices, and personal projects.

💞 Who should attend?
This group is for people of all levels and all skills. We recommend attending especially if you feel that you don't belong due to being new to JavaScript, tech in general, or the OKC area. It is impossible to know everything or be an expert in every matter, but it is possible to learn something new at every OKC.js meeting. Every meeting we learn about new tech to discover better ways to solve our problems with code, and make new friends. Attending is an investment in yourself and our tech community! Please RSVP and find this out for yourself.

💖 What is the OKC.js community like?
OKC.js is made up of members from varying backgrounds. Some have recently decided they want to learn more about technology, the tech industry, and if a career in programming is right for them. Some attendees are students at high schools, vo-techs, 2 year schools, or 4 year universities. Some attendees are in their first few years or fifteenth year in tech.

⚡ What are Lightning Talks?
⚡Lightning Talks⚡ are every third month. They're a really fun event we put on every 3 months. Community members have 5 to 10 minutes to talk about JavaScript or topics related to JavaScript. We give preference to new speakers to strengthen our community. Anyone who has attended OKC.js once before is invited to sign up. Selected speakers will be notified of their status. Common topics include: libraries, ways you've solved problems, what you're working on, or anything relating to JS. Please note that marketing pitches are not allowed; lightning talks are a community enrichment event. Thusly, we do not accept talks that sell products, goods, or services.

📬 How can I contact OKC.js?
Tweet to us at @okcjs, post a comment/question or create a new thread in our GitHub repo, post a question on Meetup in an event or discussion thread, send us an email, or post a question in the Techlahoma Slack channel. (Join the Techlahoma Slack channel here.) We'll try to respond as soon as possible.

💵 Is OKC.js free?
Yes! OKC.js has been, and always will be, a free monthly training event. We organize and speak at OKC.js for the betterment of Oklahoma's tech community. 'Advancing Oklahoma's grassroots technology community' is the Techlahoma Foundation's mission. If you or your company would like to sponsor pizza and soda for OKC.js we do accept donations via the Techlahoma Foundation.

🔊 I like what you're doing! How can I help?
Awesome!! We are so happy you like what we're doing and want to contribute! This readme includes instructions on how to contribute to the OKC.js website GitHub repository by adding and updating events or fixing spelling errors and broken links.

Listed below are some volunteer activities we do every month. If there's something that interests you, fits your skill set or one you'd like to expand upon, please let us know. If you have an idea for better ways to organize the group and duties, ways to get the word out, or create a better experience for the community, please share it with us!

If you'd like to help but are unable to contribute time, we also accept donations (via the Techlahoma Foundation) to cover the cost of pizza and soda, which are provided at every meeting for no cost to attendees.

Our current volunteers include: Jesse Harlin, Jessica Campbell, Devin Clark, Vance Lucas, Amanda Harlin. Thanks for all you do!

Organizer and Volunteer Responsibilities

Help is always welcome for these volunteer roles

find speakers for upcoming months
update the website via pull requests on GitHub *
merge the pull request and deploy the website *
keep the website's framework and plugins updated *
add in issues for the usergroup, make pull requests, and merge duty *
update the Meetup website **
moderate Meetup website and lightning talk signup discussions **
tweet reminders about the event **
tweet regularly and answer questions about the group **
arrive early to the meeting space, open/unlock doors, take out full trash and refill trashcans with new trashbags, arrange chairs and projector
stay late after meeting, throw away trash, restock trashcans with new trashbags, store away chairs, projector, and lock up space
order pizza and sodas for usergroup

*how-to outlined below
**managed with password manager

User Group Todos

Make a screencast explaining how to update the website
Find speakers for future meetups
Find volunteers, future dates for js/Techlahoma workshops
Think of something else? Add it to our readme.md with a pull request!

Website Contributions

Want to contribute to the site? Great! Helping with the website via markdown, GitHub, and pull requests is a great way to be involved. You'll be learning/using relevant skills for Oklahoma's developer job market while contributing to our tech community. Pretty cool, right? 😎

This repo holds the basis for the Oklahoma City JavaScript user group's website. This is asimply blog-type site powered by hexo, using the okcjs-hexo-theme. This currently supports multiple languages, and also has the ability to add plugins, as necessary.

Getting Started

Short Version

 git clone git@github.com:techlahoma/okcjs-website.git
 cd okcjs-website
 git clone https://github.com/techlahoma/hexo-theme-okcjs.git themes/okcjs
 npm install
 hexo server

Longer Version:

Make sure you have node installed.
Install hexo if you haven't already. npm install hexo -g
Clone the repository.
- If you already have cloned the repo, please check that your clone is up to date.
Clone the okcjs theme into themes/okcjs/
- hexo-theme-okcjs repo: https://github.com/techlahoma/hexo-theme-okcjs
Run npm install from the root folder of your cloned repo.
- Even though you've installed hexo, you must do this after the initial cloning.
You can start the server with hexo server on the command line.
Always submit new posts as a pull request. Do not push directly to master.
Full hexo documentation located at http://hexo.io/docs/.

Posting Events

Posts are located in _posts. The easiest way to write a new one is simply to type hexo new "Your Post Name" It will scaffold one for you. Nice.

Go ahead and Make the post you want to make. If you don't like it we can delete it later, no big deal. Now, type hexo server. Hexo starts on port (in this case 4000);

When you have it like you like, do hexo generate this spits out all the static content.

Deploy

Easy mode. When on the master branch, after you have merged a pull request to Techlahoma's repo: hexo deploy --generate

Boom. Its on gh pages here http://techlahoma.github.io/okcjs-website/

If something goes wrong.

The magic words: hexo clean then hexo generate This will recreate everything.

Did you forget to run npm install?

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techlahoma / okcjs-website

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