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+# Pizza Wednesday Site
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+This repo contains the scripts, templates, and blog posts necessary to build the Pizza Wednesday landing site from scratch.
+
+While only intended to be used by contributors for publishing new articles and changes to the website, the source files are publicly viewable for transparency and posterity.
+
+## Publishing
+
+Being a python script that is doing somewhat non-trivial stuff, `publish.py` will require some non-standard dependencies to run properly.
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+  * `markdown` for parsing the markdown source files into HTML.
+  * `strip_markdown` for converting markdown source file content into plain text.
+  * `jinja2` for template generation of the site contents. Without tools like it, creating static websites is a fairly miserable experience
+
+And of course a Python interpreter will be required - specifically any compatible with CPython libraries like the ones listed above.
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+Once these dependencies are satisifed, generating the website should be as simple as running `publish.py`. If it does fail to run at this point, please file a bug report.
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