UPE

Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE): International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines is the first honor society dedicated to the discipline of computer information systems and computer science.

This repository is The Johns Hopkins University's chapter's website. If you're a current member or alumni, please feel free to contribute by making a pull request.

Documentation

Adding Members

• Open members.json. Find the year in which the member was inducted (or create a new year for a new class). Fill in appropriate data for the appropriate members, using previous examples as a reference. Below is a blueprint for a year comprising exactly one hypothetical member:

"year": "1912",
"members": [{
    "alumni": true,
    "create_profile": true,
    "name": "Alan Turing",
    "notes": "Father of Computer Science",
    "interests": "Mathematics, cryptanalysis, computer science, Biology",
    "tutoring": "Modern Cryptography, Automata and Computational Theory",
    "bio": "Alan Turing was a British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, mathematical biologist, and marathon and ultra distance runner. ",
    "academic_standing": "PhD, Princeton University",
    "languages": "Automaton",
    "hobbies": "Cracking cryptographic messages",
    "image": "images/alan_turing.jpg"
}]

• Running python members.py will modify members.html such that members.html includes references to this new member. If create_profile:true is defined in members.json, this script will also create the profile page for this member.

Changing Members

• Open members.json and find the desired member. Change the appropriate fields and run python members.py.

Removing Members

• Membership to UPE is for life. However, if you have made an error, simply remove a member from members.json and run python members.py

Publishing

• Publishing requires write access to the UPE group on the ACM servers. Note that this is generally reserved only for the executive branch of our chapter. To publish changes, chmod + x publish.sh && ./publish.sh.
  • Note that this script will invoke python members.py automatically, ensuring the latest changes are pushed.

File Overview

• css/ is the folder that contains all css used by this website.
  • Modify css/custom.css for any changes to the website's styling.
  • Do not touch css/skeleton.css or css/normalize.css as these will be updated without warning.
• faculty.html displays the faculty advisors for our chapter.
• images/ contains all images (including member pictures) used by this website.
• index.html is the main web page.
• member.html.template is the template used for our member pages. Strings of the form$KEY$ are dynamically inserted when members.py is run.
• members/ is a dynamically generated folder that contains all the member pages.
  • This folder is deleted and re-created each time members.py is run. Do not touch anything in it; otherwise, you will lose your changes.
• members.html displays all of our members (including alumni). The data for this web page is populated by members.html.template and members.py.
• members.html.template is the template used for our members page. Strings of the form $KEY$ are dynamically inserted when members.py is run.
• members.json is the database for our chapter's members.
• members.py parses members.json and builds
  • members.html, which displays our chapter's members in a table.
  • members/$MEMBER, which is $MEMBER's personal page.
• publish.sh is a script that uses rsync to publish changes to the server. Note that this script will invoke python members.py automatically, ensuring the latest changes are pushed.
• requirements.html displays the requirements for joining our chapter.

Tech Stack

• HTML5
• CSS3
• Skeleton 2.x
• Python 2.7 (compilation)

Any requests that add complexity to this tech stack will be denied. This website will change hands every year to a new executive staff; it is important to keep it as simple as possible.

KISS.

Build/Publish Requirements

• Python 2.7
• rsync
• Write privileges to the UPE group on the ACM servers

Contributions

• Alexander Schiffhauer, President 2014
• Disa Mhembere, Secretary 2014, President 2015
• Carlo Olcese, Member 2014, Vice-President 2015
• Jeffrey Dallatezza, President 2013
• Sharon Li, Member 2013
• Jose Nino, Treasurer 2015
• Kunal Lillaney, Secretary 2015

Special thanks to members of the ACM that continue to host our website, free of charge.

License

MIT License