sniffle-workshop

sniffle is an easy-to-use Jekyll theme, developed primarily for hosting workshop webpages in the AI / ML communities. sniffle automates many of the mundane tasks needed for workshop webpages, including:

• curating speaker lists
• curating organizer lists
• populating schedule webpages
• managing a list of accepted papers

sniffle came about because of a lazy grad student's need to avoid the agonizing pain that went into populating the DiffCVGP and Rethinking ML Papers workshop webpages. sniffle is based on Jekyll's default (and first) minima theme.

Here's a preview webpage for the theme.

Here's sample screenshots of various pages!

Installing Jekyll

For more about how to use Jekyll, check out these installation instructions. Why Jekyll? Read this blog post!

Installation

Assuming you have Ruby and Bundler installed on your system (hint: for ease of managing ruby gems, consider using rbenv), first fork the theme from github.com:krrish94/sniffle-workshop to github.com:<your-username>/<your-repo-name> and do the following:

$ git clone [email protected]:<your-username>/<your-repo-name>.git
$ cd <your-repo-name>
$ bundle install
$ bundle exec jekyll serve

Now, feel free to customize the theme to your liking!

Using the theme

The theme is quite easy to use if you're familiar with Jekyll. The following collections are implemented:

1. Speakers: Curate a speaker list like this one from a set of markdown files, one per speaker. Crops and displays images if available. Adds a short bio. See files in the _speakers directory for examples.
2. Organizers: Curate an organizer list from a set of markdown files, one per organizer. See files in the _organizers directory for examples.
3. Schedule: Curate a schedule like this from a set of markdown files, one per event (talk, panel, break, etc.). See files in the _schedule directory for examples. Schedule items are sorted by a sequence_id attribute.
4. Papers: Curate a list of papers like this from a bunch of markdown files, one per paper. See files in the _papers directory for examples. Papers are sorted by a sequence_id attribute if specifed (else they are listed alphabetically).

NOTE: The best way to use these is to turn feature on or off by editing the collections attribute in _config.yml.

If you experience issues or have cool features to add, feel free to fork this template.

Adding a speaker

To add a speaker, simply create a copy of _speakers/janedoe.md, rename it, and edit the attributes of the speaker. Please read the comments in the markdown file; they describe the function of each attribute.

Adding an organizer

To add an organizer, simply create a copy of _organizers/organizerjanedoe.md, rename it, and edit the attributes of the organizer. Please read the comments in the markdown file; they describe the function of each attribute.

Adding an event to your schedule

To add an event to the workshop schedule, simply create a copy of _schedule/talk_00_opening.md, rename it, and edit the attributes of the event. Please read the comments in the markdown file; they describe the function of each attribute.

Adding a paper to the workshop's proceedings

To add a paper to the workshop's proceedings, simply create a copy of _schedule/paper_00.md, rename it and edit the attributes of the paper. Please read the comments in the markdown file; they describe the function of each attribute.