up.front

Website for Up.front — a Berlin meetup for the web design and frontend community (2010–2019).

Built with Jekyll 4 and plain CSS. Deployed via GitHub Actions to GitHub Pages.

Local development

Requirements: Ruby 3.3+ and Bundler.

bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve

Open http://localhost:4000

To reach the site from another device on your network:

bundle exec jekyll serve --host 0.0.0.0

After changing _config.yml, restart the Jekyll server.

Deployment

Pushes to the gh-pages branch trigger the GitHub Actions workflow, which builds the site with Jekyll 4.4 and deploys to GitHub Pages.

Project structure

Path	Purpose
_posts/	Meetup posts (YAML front matter + optional HTML body)
_layouts/, _includes/	HTML templates
css/	Plain CSS stylesheets
images/	Site and speaker images
*.html	Static pages (about, archive, submit, …)

Styles are plain CSS files linked from _includes/head.html — there is no Sass/SCSS build step.

Adding a meetup post

Create a new file in _posts/ named YYYY-MM-DD-meetup.html:

---
counter: "87"
intro: >
  Short intro shown on the event page.
meetup: "https://www.meetup.com/up-front-ug/events/…"
talks:
  - title: "Talk title"
    desc: "Talk abstract."
    speakers:
      - name: "Speaker Name"
        bio: "Speaker bio."
        picture: "speaker-slug.jpg"
        links:
          - title: "@handle"
            url: "https://twitter.com/handle"
---

Speaker photos go in images/talks/. The default event time is 7:45pm (set in _config.yml).

For talks with multiple speakers, keep title and desc on the talk and list each person under speakers. Single-speaker talks use the same shape with one entry in speakers.

Browse existing posts in _posts/ for examples.

Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a branch, make your changes
3. Verify locally with bundle exec jekyll build
4. Open a pull request against gh-pages

For content or design changes beyond bug fixes, please open an issue first so we can align on scope.