WWT Contributor Hub Static Site

This repository contains the sources for the WWT Contributor Hub website, served statically via Github Pages.

You might want to go to the WWT Contributor Hub now:

https://worldwidetelescope.github.io/

The WorldWide Telescope project uses an open governance model and is fiscally sponsored by NumFOCUS. Consider making a tax-deductible donation to help the project pay for developer time, professional services, travel, workshops, and a variety of other needs.

Contributing

As you might guess, contributions to this website, and to WorldWide Telescope in general, are welcome! See the contributors’ guide for more information (also available in this repository as CONTRIBUTING.md). We use a standard workflow with issues and pull requests.

Our GitHub Pages sites, such as this one, use the just-the-docs Jekyll theme. The just-the-docs documentation describes its features.

Local testing

This site is based on a standard Jekyll static site system. As of this writing (April 2022), Jekyll is stuck on Ruby 2.7, while most of the rest of the world has moved on to the Ruby 3.x series. You may need to set up and use a custom environment with Ruby 2.7 (and C/C++ compilers for building binary gems), e.g.:

conda activate ruby27

Once you’ve dealt with that, run

bundle install

to make sure that the needed tools are installed, then run

bundle exec jekyll serve

to serve the site locally. For more information, see the GitHub documentation on Jekyll static sites.

Acknowledgments

Work on the WorldWide Telescope system has been supported by the American Astronomical Society (AAS), the .NET Foundation, and other partners. See the WWT user website for details.