east-africa-mountain-monitoring-cop/east-africa-mountain-monitoring-cop.github.io

# East Africa CoP on Mountain Monitoring website Starter website for an **East Africa Community of Practice (CoP) on Mountain Monitoring**, initially focused on the Mount Kenya area, climate, and atmospheric composition. The site is deliberately built with a small amount of Jekyll/Liquid on top of plain Markdown, YAML and CSS so that most routine maintenance can be done directly in the GitHub web interface. ## Repository structure ```text . ├── _config.yml # Site title, repository/wiki URLs, form links ├── _data/ │ ├── navigation.yml # Main navigation │ ├── organizations.yml # Participating organizations and logos │ └── program.yml # Symposium programme ├── _includes/ │ ├── footer.html │ ├── header.html │ └── org-logos.html ├── _layouts/ │ ├── default.html │ └── home.html ├── _posts/ # News posts (YYYY-MM-DD-title.md) ├── assets/ │ ├── css/style.css │ └── images/ │ ├── hero/ # Main/hero photographs │ ├── logos/ # Participating-organization logos │ └── content/ # Other website images ├── documents/ # PDFs and other files linked from pages/wiki ├── symposium/ │ ├── index.md │ ├── program.md │ ├── registration.md │ └── abstracts.md ├── about.md ├── news.md └── index.md ``` ## First setup after creating the GitHub repository 1. Copy these files into the repository and push them to the default branch. 2. Edit `_config.yml` and replace `OWNER/REPOSITORY` in `repository_url` and `wiki_url`. 3. In GitHub, open **Settings → Pages**. 4. Under **Build and deployment**, choose **Deploy from a branch**. 5. Select the default branch (normally `main`) and `/ (root)`, then save. 6. Enable the repository **Wiki** under **Settings → General → Features** if it is not already enabled. 7. Once Pages is enabled, GitHub will show the public site URL in **Settings → Pages**. For GitHub Free / free organizations, …