This code is no longer in use at URY and usage is strongly discouraged. See "lass-pyramid" instead.

This repository contains the core of the University Radio York website, the Longevity Assured Site System. It is written in Python 2.7 using the Django 1.4+ framework, and is licenced under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence version 2.

At time of writing the code is heavily coupled to its original intended use as the URY website (but with URY branding elements and private configuration data stripped out), but work is ongoing to make this codebase generalisable to any student radio station.

For a few reasons, really:

1. The site is built on many existing free software apps and frameworks, and giving back to the same community is only fair;
2. It is idealistically hoped that the codebase will eventually be generalisable to other student, amateur and local radio stations;
3. It gives prospective URY members something concrete to look at before considering whether to join our computing team;
4. It improves the chances of any malpractices or security violations in our front-facing code are found and highlighted =P

(This section to be filled out better later)

The requirements.txt file can be used to drag in all of LASS's dependencies, including the most recent checkout of the LASS github, using pip install -r requirements.txt.

Deploy as a WSGI application; you will need to fill in the Django settings that lass/urysite/settings.py attempts to load from elsewhere; example private configuration can be found in lass/examples.

The templates as used on the URY site are (or will be) on github under the name urysite-templates.

These are considered part of URY's branding and thus are not available from github. You may find them in processed form on the URY website, but generally you must ask for permission to use our branding assets.

Sphinx documentation is provided (in the urysite/doc directory). For now, this is the only documentation provided.

Please contact us at computing@ury.org.uk if you think that this code is violating the terms of any licence, and we'll try our hardest to rectify the problems.

1. Clean up the code and make it more presentable for public appraisal
2. Remove specific references to URY
3. Improve this documentation
4. Possibly host the Sphinx documentation on readthedocs when the project is more publicly approachable