How we've setup our community web site, http://www.cloudifysource.org, for Cloudify, GigaSpaces' new open source PaaS stack, in less than a month by using open source and SaaS tools such as Github, Jekyll, Disqus, Zendesk and others.

1. Building a Kick-Ass Developer Community
Website in Less than a Month
Tamir Korem, Developer Relations, @cloudifysource
Uri Cohen, Head of Product, @uri1803
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2. TODAY, MORE THAN EVER, IT’S A DEVELOPER’S WORLD

3. REQUIREMENTS (FROM THE BACK OF MY HEAD…)
SEO Blogs
Issues Analytics
Docs
Code Search
Forums Videos
Comments
Rating
Social
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4. NO SERVERS
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5. ALL WE KNOW IS JAVASCRIPT AND HTML
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6. HAVE A UNIQUE LOOK & FEEL
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7. SPEED, SPEED, SPEED
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8. BONUS: GET MEMBERS TO CONTRIBUTE CONTENT
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9. AND, IT HAS TO BE COOL, FONZY COOL
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10. FROM CONSTRAINTS TO REALITY
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11. DISQUS – COMMENT, SHARE, RATE
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12. DISQUS – COMMENT, SHARE, RATE
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13. GOOGLE SEARCH API
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14. GOOGLE SEARCH API
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15. GITHUB PAGES
 It’s a static web site that’s a repo
 Shareable
 Forkable
 FAST
 Flexible
 And then there’s Jekyll…
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16. INTRODUCING JEKYLL
Jekyll is a simple, blog
aware, static site
generator built in Ruby.
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17. MORE ABOUT JEKYLL
 What Jekyll does
 Who uses it
 Geared for Blog Sites
 Paging
 Categories
 Tags
 Pluggable
 Supports several markups

18. JEKYLL – THE SITE GENERATOR

19. TEXTILE
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20. THE MAIN BLOG PAGE

21. THE MAINBLOG.HTML LAYOUT

22. AND THIS THE END RESULT

23. GET INVOLVED!
 Community site
www.cloudifysource.org
 OSS project repo:
github.com/CloudifySource/cloudify
 Community web site repo:
github.com/CloudifySource/cloudifysource.github.com
 Jira:
https://cloudifysource.atlassian.net/
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24. Q&A
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