I mean, like, a serial or parallel bus, not bus as a vehicle.

oi-bus is a Django application designed to help run on-site sports programming competitions, most specifically Polish Olympiad in Informatics and Algorithmic Engagements.

It can be used to:

• manage participants' workstations (including more complex operations using Ansible),
• manage dnsmasq configuration to set the workstations' IP addresses in stone,
• manage assignment of participants to workstations,
• provide the aforementioned assignment to oioioi's ipauthsync module, so that the participants are automagically logged in to SIO2 based on the workstations' IP addresses,
• allow participants to back their files up to make things easier when their workstation suddenly bursts into flames, or less poetically, suffers an unrecoverable hard drive failure,
• allow participants to print text files during the competition.

You ought to be running Debian 10 on amd64 architecture. It could run on something else, but it might not, and we have not tested it on anything other than what we just said.

You need to install build-essential package, which contains Debian's packaging tools.

Clone the repository into a directory you don't mind turning into a giant mess, then run dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us.

mkdir big-mood
cd big-mood
git clone https://github.com/olimpiada/oi-bus
cd oi-bus
dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us

dpkg-buildpackage might tell you you're missing some packages. Install those and run it again.

When everything is done, you will find in the directory that oi-bus directory resides in (big-mood from the example above, as opposed to oi-bus itself) a .deb package for oi-bus.