RubyConf Africa Website
Official website for RubyConf Africa, built with Jekyll and maintained by community contributors.
RubyConf Africa Website
About the Project:
RubyConf Africa is the official conference for the African Ruby Community (ARC), bringing together Rubyists, developers, and entrepreneurs from across East Africa and beyond. The conference serves as a platform for learning, networking, and showcasing Ruby’s impact in the region.
The website is built with Jekyll and hosted on GitHub Pages, providing a simple, maintainable, and community-driven platform for conference announcements, schedules, speakers, and registration.
My Role:
I contribute to the development and maintenance of the RubyConf Africa website. My work has included:
- Building and refining the site structure using Jekyll
- Creating dynamic sections for speakers, sponsors, and schedule from structured data
- Improving design and styling with Bootstrap + CSS + JS
- Supporting deployment and updates via GitHub Actions + Pages
- Migrating the main site to Tailwind CSS, with legacy Bootstrap content moved to an archive directory
- Configuring independent environments for both frameworks, connected via URL-based navigation to avoid CSS conflicts
- Reorganizing the archive system (2015–2025) to mirror the modern architecture:
- Layouts restructured under
_layouts/archive/ - Includes restructured under
_includes/archive/(components in subfolder) - Data reorganized as
_data/archive/YYYY/(sponsors, speakers, schedule, meta) - Archive pages made data-driven via
site.data.archive[page.year] - Unified navigation through a single source
_data/conference/archive_years.yml
- Layouts restructured under
- Ensuring backward compatibility during migration, with speaker detail pages (e.g.,
/2024/speakers/matz) working correctly
Tech Stack:
- Site Generator: Jekyll (Ruby-based static site generator)
- Styling: Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap (archived), CSS, JavaScript
- Hosting: GitHub Pages
Note:
This project is part of my contribution to the African Ruby Community. It was not built solely by me, but I actively contribute to maintaining and improving the site.
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