The Tech Squares website (https://www.mit.edu/~tech-squares/) need to be periodically updated with information about the first day of fall and spring classes (done by the class coordinator and/or webmaster) and with dance locations (done by the rooming coordinator). Updating the website involves the following steps:
- SSH to Athena at athena.dialup.mit.edu (ask another officer if you need help with this).
- Navigate to the directory where you want to make the changes.
- For first day of class: cd /mit/tech-squares/www
- For rooming: cd /mit/tech-squares/www/schedules
- Open the file you want to change
- For first day of class: variables.html
- For rooming: weekly-xx.html (replace xx with the last two digits of the relevant year)
- Preview at http://www.mit.edu/~tech-squares/schedules/weekly.html
- Pages are cached (I believe for 15 minutes), so add ?asdf or something to the URL each time you want to look at it again, making sure to use a unique query string.
- Check in the changes: git commit variables.html (or weekly-xx.html, or whatever)
- Type in a commit message, save, and exit.
- In the future, if you have an ssh key, you'll be able to "git push" as well, but that isn't set up yet
- To learn more about git, see https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/gitlab-basics/start-using-git.html (or Google)