Merge pull request #31 from MelbourneBitDevs/style

Styling and phrasing improvements

Gemfile

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ source "https://rubygems.org"
 git_source(:github) {|repo_name| "https://github.com/#{repo_name}" }
 
 gem "jekyll-paginate"
+gem "json"
 gem "jekyll-sitemap"
 gem "jekyll-feed"
 gem "jekyll-seo-tag"

Gemfile.lock

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ GEM
       jekyll (>= 3.7, < 5.0)
     jekyll-watch (2.2.1)
       listen (~> 3.0)
+    json (2.7.2)
     kramdown (2.3.1)
       rexml
     kramdown-parser-gfm (1.1.0)
@@ -73,6 +74,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   jekyll-paginate
   jekyll-seo-tag
   jekyll-sitemap
+  json
   kramdown-parser-gfm
   webrick (~> 1.8)
 

_includes/footer.html

@@ -3,16 +3,6 @@
     ==============================================================================================================================================================
   </div>
   <div class="Footer-inner">
-    <div class="Footer-source">
-      <a
-        href="https://github.com/MelbourneBitDevs/bitdevs.com.au"
-        target="_blank"
-        rel="noopener nofollow"
-        >Source available on Github</a
-      >
-    </div>
-    <!-- <div class="Footer-rss">
-      <a href="https://anchor.fm/vancouver-bitcoiners/episodes">Podcast</a>
-    </div> -->
+    <div class="Footer-source"></div>
   </div>
 </footer>

about.md

@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ layout: default
 
 # MelbBitdevs
 
-Melbourne Bitdevs is on the last thursday of every month at the **RMIT Blockchain Hub**.
+Melbourne Bitdevs is held on the last Thursday of every month at the **RMIT Blockchain Hub** at 6PM.
 
-As a group, we discuss the latest Bitcoin news from a technical perspective. Sometimes we diverge into adjacent fields of privacy, self hosting, free software, and more!
+As a group, we discuss the latest Bitcoin news from a technical perspective. Sometimes diverging into adjacent fields of privacy, self hosting, free software, and more!
 
 **[Join the telegram](https://t.me/+jKSVmXSvGvViNzBl) to join our group, confirm event details - and be let upstairs!**
 
-Please ping someone if joining approval is taking too long!
+Please feel free to ping someone in the community if joining approval is taking too long!
 
 ## News items for this month
 
@@ -28,86 +28,6 @@ To facillitate optimal free and open discussion, privacy of attendees is taken s
 
 ## Group Activities
 
-We aim to occasionally try new software or tutorials as a group, building applicable skills within a supportive group environment. So please try to bring a laptop machine along with you! MacOS or Linux preferred (for windows [you could use a virtual machine](https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/install-linux-windows-vmware-virtual-machine/)).
-
-Accumulating list of possible tasks we might be interested in exploring as a group. Please try have access to MacOS or Linux
-
-### Multisig and Carrots
-
-Build a taproot multisig with your friends, and to spend from it. carrot Create a multisig with taproot and spend from it using BDK carrot.
-
-https://github.com/danielabrozzoni/multisigs_and_carrots
-
-### Breeze SDK
-
-Integrate Lightning and bitcoin payments into apps with a very shallow learning curve.
-
-https://github.com/breez/breez-sdk
-
-### Silent Payments on Signet
-
-Like BIP47 (paynym) without notification transactions
-
-https://gist.github.com/nickfarrow/963e0ec915c3a15f2079320ebd2d7b0e
-
-### Loin: Payjoin Lightning Channel Funding
-
-Install the Polar testing environment to spin up 2 LND nodes.
-Create a Collaborative Lightning Channel Opens (privacy++)
-
-https://github.com/chaincase-app/loin/
-
-### A Tour of Core Lightning (base58 repo)
-
-Core Lightning (CLN) is a lightweight, highly customizable and standard compliant implementation of the Bitcoin Lightning Network protocol. We're going to spin up a couple nodes, make a regtest lightning network, and sling some sats around making payments between the nodes.
-
-https://replit.com/@KodyLow/Base58-A-Tour-Of-Core-Lightning
+We aim to occasionally try new software or tutorials as a group, building applicable skills within a supportive group environment. It may be useful to bring a laptop machine along with you! MacOS or Linux preferred (for windows [you could use a virtual machine](https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/install-linux-windows-vmware-virtual-machine/)).
 
 ---
-
-<div>
-  <h3>Webring</h3>
-  <!-- The Bitcoin Webring: https://github.com/nickfarrow/bitcoinwebring -->
-  <div class="webring-container">
-    <div class="webring-item">
-      <a href="https://bitcoin.org/"
-        ><img src="webring-img/bitcoinorg.png" alt="bitcoinorg"
-      /></a>
-    </div>
-    <div class="webring-item">
-      <a href="https://utxo.club"
-        ><img src="webring-img/utxoclub.gif" alt="utxoclub"
-      /></a>
-    </div>
-    <div class="webring-item">
-      <a href="https://frostsnap.com/"
-        ><img src="webring-img/frostsnap.png" alt="frostsnap"
-      /></a>
-    </div>
-    <div class="webring-item">
-      <a href="https://unspent.space/"
-        ><img src="webring-img/unspentspace.png" alt="unspentspace"
-      /></a>
-    </div>
-    <div class="webring-item">
-      <a href="https://bitdevs.com.au/"
-        ><img src="webring-img/melbbitdevs.png" alt="melbbitdevs"
-      /></a>
-    </div>
-    <div class="webring-item">
-      <a href="https://pollofeed.com/"
-        ><img src="webring-img/pollofeed.png" alt="pollofeed"
-      /></a>
-    </div>
-    <div class="webring-item">
-      <a href="https://bitcoinbushbash.info/"
-        ><img src="webring-img/bushbash.gif" alt="bitcoinbushbash"
-      /></a>
-    </div>
-    <div class="webring-item">
-      <a href="https://nolooking.chaincase.app/"
-        ><img src="webring-img/nolooking.gif" alt="nolooking"
-      /></a>
-    </div>
-  </div>
-</div>

assets/css/_global.scss

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 html {
-  background-image: url(/assets/lightning.gif);
-  background-size: cover;
+  background-image: url(/assets/greenmesh.gif);
 }
 
 html, body {
@@ -22,10 +21,13 @@ html, body {
   }
 }
 
+
 .Site {
   max-width: 880px;
   margin: 0 auto;
   padding: 2rem;
+  background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.875);
+
 }
 
 a {
@@ -45,6 +47,7 @@ p {
 h1, h2, h3 {
   color:$primary-color;
   font-weight: bold;
+  color: $primary-color;
 }
 
 h4, h5, h6 {

assets/css/style.scss

@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ $body-font: 'Source Code Pro', monospace;
 $base-font-size: 16px;
 
 // Colors
-$primary-color: #10b0e0;
+$primary-color: #ff9900;
 $secondary-color: #ff9900;
 $background-color: #FFF;
-$font-color: #e3e3e3;
+$font-color: #2e95a5;
 
 // Screen size for responsiveness
 $small-screen: 400px;

index.html

@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@
 
 <div class="Home">
   <p class="Home-about">
-    Melbourne BitDevs is an in-person community for those interested in
-    discussing and exploring developments in Bitcoin and related protocols.
+    Melbourne BitDevs is an in-person meetup held monthly for discussing
+    research and development of Bitcoin and related protocols.
   </p>
 
   <div class="Home-posts">
-    <h2 class="Home-posts-title">Upcoming and Recent Events</h2>
+    <h2 class="Home-posts-title">Recent Events</h2>
     {% assign event_posts = 100 %} {% assign counter = 0 %} {% for post in
     site.posts %} {% if post.type == "socratic" or post.type == "whitepaper"%}
     <div class="Home-posts-post">