TEDxNTUA 2019

Event website built on Django, with information about the conference speakers, schedule, sponsors, and more, enhanced with content management utilities.

My involvement as a member of the IT Team of TEDxNTUA included:

• Mainly backend development; building the Django codebase (models, templates and views), and extending the default admin interface to suit the project's needs.
• Undertaking sysadmin and deployment responsibilities.
• Some frontend work, like designing and building the UI for the conference schedule, and turning the event's logo into a Three.js animation.

Technical overview

Backend

• Built on Python and Django , which comes with user authentication, Object-Relational Mapping (ORM), templating, admin interface features, and more, out of the box.
• MySQL is used as the database.
• Pylint helps with code linting.

Also, Django Parler is used for internationalization and django-versatileimagefield for auto-generation of image-size variants.

Frontend

• Custom theming with vanilla CSS (with SCSS syntax).
• Usage of Bootstrap utilities for the grid system.
• jQuery was employed as a DOM manipulation library.
• Three.js was used for visual animations.
• Webpack served as the build tool.

Infrastructure

• Apache + Passenger function as the web server.
• A basic Continuous Deployment (CD) setup with Git and cron jobs runs on the server.