Technology Noticeboard

Official updates regarding tech facilities of IIT Kharagpur
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Table of Contents

• About The Project
• Serving The Static Site
• Creating Notices
  • Syncing With Server
• Contact
  • Present Technology Coordinator(s)
• Additional Documentation

About the project

This noticeboard displays important announcements about IIT Kharagpur's technical facilities and related events. It serves as a central location for the campus community to find up-to-date information on things like network downtime, maintenance schedules, ERP issues, general guidelines related to tech in IIT KGP and more.

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Serving the static site

Use any webserver to host the files in this repository. Following are the quite popular ones:

• nginx
• apache
• python http server

Note

We use nginx in the docker container.
Configuration file for nginx: nginx.conf.

1. Update details of Present Technology Coordinator(s).
   • Save pictures in ./assets with roll number as the file name. For example:

     21IM10009.png

   • Update techcoordi.json. It has the following structure

     [
       {
         "id": "21IM10009",
         "name": "Arpit Bhardwaj",
         "email": "arpitbhardwaj.iitkgp@gmail.com",
         "tele": "9761667733",
         "linkedin": "https://linkedin.com/in/proffapt"
       }
     ]

2. Run the docker container

   sudo docker-compose up -d

3. Visit http://localhost:8001/

Note

Alternatively you can run python3 -m http.server 8001 to serve the files instead of docker or nginx

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Creating notices

Make sure you have python installed. Once that is verified, follow the steps below:

1. Run the create-notice.py script

   cd scripts/
   python3 create-notice.py

2. Enter the title in the prompt
3. Type or Paste the notice
4. Press Enter to go to the new line
5. Press Ctrl+D to complete the notice

Syncing with server

1. Move to ./scripts/ directory
2. Configure the environment variables.
   • Copy .env.example as .env
   • Fill the following self-explanatory template

     SERVER_USERNAME=pi
     SERVER_IP=192.168.17.69
     SERVER_DIR=/home/pi/noticeboard/notices
     SERVER_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword 
     # Leave SERVER_PASSWORD empty if SSH through SSH keys is configured

3. Run the create-notice.py script with --sync argument

   python3 create-notice.py --sync

4. Follow steps 2-5 of Creating Notices

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Contact

📫 Technology Students' Gymkhana -

Present Technology Coordinator(s)

Note

For any ideas, suggestions or queries regarding this project, mail us at tech.coordi@iitkgp.ac.in

Name	Email	Phone No.
Arpit Bhardwaj	arpitbhardwaj.iitkgp@gmail.com	+91-9761667733
Parth Gupta	guptaparth.iitkgp@gmail.com	+91-7620821543

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Additional Documentation

• License
• Code of Conduct
• Security Policy
• Contribution Guidelines

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