call2025/README.md

# XPUB Call 2025

This is code for the XPUB 2025 call.

## Dependencies

    pip install django pillow pyyaml click

## Key files

* Stylesheets: [index.css](call/static/call/index.css) + [guestbook](call/static/call/guestbook.css)
* HTML: [index.html](call/templates/call/index.html) + [guestbook](call/templates/call/guestbook.html)
* Language file (for the generative caption): [terms.yaml](call/static/call/terms.yaml)
* JavaScripts (index)
    * [2bitcharactergenerator.js](call/static/call/2bitcharactergenerator.js)
    * [xpubcharacters.js](call/static/call/xpubcharacters.js)
* JavaScripts (guestbook)
    * [guestbook.js](call/static/call/guestbook.js)

## Updating

To update the live site:

    git pull
    ./manage.py collectstatic

And eventually (if the code has changed):

    sudo systemctl restart uwsgi


## Colophon

> The heart of this webpage is the <a href="https://0x72.itch.io/2bitcharactergenerator" target="extern">2bitcharactergenerator</a>, by <a href="https://0x72.itch.io/" target="extern">0x72</a>, found via Everest Pipkin's great <a href="https://tinytools.directory/" target="extern">tinytools.directory</a> and generously released via a CC0 (public domain) license.
The generative text is inspired by early experiments with computer and poetry such as <a href="https://elmcip.net/creative-work/house-dust">Allison Knowle's House of Dust</a>.
As a program XPUB believes in creative expression as <em>not from scratch</em>, and like language, shared and in conversation with all that has come before.