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Adding a Mentor

To add a mentor open the file mentors.yml in _data folder and please maintain the following format EXACTLY (replacing values where indicated):

- name: Mentor's name
  github: Mentor's Github username
  image: Mentor's image
  twitter: Mentor's Twitter id
  facebook: Mentor's Facebook id
  Linkedin: Mentor's Linkedin Page

  Geolocation (city or country: optional)
  lat: Mentor's latitude
  lng: Mentor's longitude

IMPORTANT:

• All images must be optimized before uploaded to the repository via commit or Pull Request. You may use any image optimizer of your choice.
• All images must be in img/mentors.
• The images must be 240 x 240 pixels.
• If you do not want to include your social media accounts or coordinates , please do not provide empty fields like facebook:.
• Avoid using contractions such as can't, don't, etc. If there is no choice (e.g. the name has single quote mark) put double quotes (") around that part.

Adding a Student

To add a student open the file students.yml in _data folder and please maintain the following format EXACTLY (replacing values where indicated):

- name: Student's name
  country: Student's country/region
  github: Student's Github username
  image: Student's image (or representation like a "nick" image)
  twitter: Student's Twitter id

**Optional** (Please ensure parents agree on sharing this data)
* facebook: Student's Facebook id
* Geolocation (Preferably do not share your exact location. If you really want to share it, share city)
  lat: Student's latitude
  lng: Student's longitude

IMPORTANT:

• All images must be optimized before uploaded to the repository via commit or Pull Request. You may use any image optimizer of your choice.
• All images must be in img/students.
• The images must be 240 x 240 pixels.
• If you do not want to include your social media accounts or coordinates , please do not provide empty fields like facebook:.
• Avoid using contractions such as can't, don't, etc. If there is no choice (e.g. the name has single quote mark) put double quotes (") around that part.

Adding a Blog

To add a blog open the file blogs.yml in _data folder and please maintain the following format EXACTLY (replacing values where indicated):

- url: URL to the blog
  title: Title of the blog
  img: Image of the blog
  author_name: Name of the author of the blog (most likely you)

IMPORTANT:

• All images must be optimized before uploaded to the repository via commit or Pull Request. You may use any image optimizer of your choice.
• All images must be in img/blogs.
• The images must be 240 x 240 pixels. (Don't add any other!)
• Avoid using contractions such as can't, don't, etc. If there is no choice (e.g. the name has single quote mark) put double quotes (") around that part.

Adding a Video

To add a blog open the file video.yml in _data folder and please maintain the following format EXACTLY (replacing values where indicated):

- url: URL to the video in YouTube 
  title: Title of the video
  img: Image of the video
  author_name: Name of the creator of the blog (most likely you)

IMPORTANT:

• All images must be optimized before uploaded to the repository via commit or Pull Request. You may use any image optimizer of your choice.
• All images must be in img/video.
• The images must be 240 x 240 pixels. (Don't add any other!)
• Avoid using contractions such as can't, don't, etc. If there is no choice (e.g. the name has single quote mark) put double quotes (") around that part.
• Don't add URL to a YouTube channel, the URL must be to a video in YouTube.

Adding a Student Project

To add a student project open the file student_projects.yml in _data folder and please maintain the following format EXACTLY (replacing values where indicated):

- name: Name of project
  github: Github repository of the project
  author: Name of the author of the project
  image: Logo of the project

IMPORTANT:

• All images must be optimized before uploaded to the repository via commit or Pull Request. You may use any image optimizer of your choice.
• All images must be in img/projects.
• The images must be 240 x 240 pixels.
• Avoid using contractions such as can't, don't, etc. If there is no choice (e.g. the name has single quote mark) put double quotes (") around that part.

Adding a page

To add a new page:

• Make a new top-level .html file (i.e. next to index.html) with the following format:

---
permalink: <some permalink>
---
{% include header.html %}

<!-- your html, including any necessary stylesheet links or scripts -->

{% include footer.html %}

• Add a link in the nav bar (in _includes/header.html)

Adding installation steps files in other languages.

• Copy installation files in English and paste them on same directory. The name must be like below, You must give same file name of english files with 2 or 3 leters that showing your language that contains in brackets. That 2 or 3 letters must be english letters. ex:- If it's you adding language is Sinhala you can use 'si' as following, installation_windows(si).md
• After translate (Only translating, the data on english files like URLs must be there as same.) those files to your language save them.
• Finally add links of those installation files to the README.md.

Installation Steps:

• Local Setup on Windows
  • In English
  • In Sinhala - සිංහලෙන්
• Local Setup on Linux
  • In English
  • In Sinhala - සිංහලෙන්
• Local Setup on MacOS
  • In English
  • In Sinhala - සිංහලෙන්