The seminars codebase is based on the LMFDB and includes the common module psycodict as a submodule, so the installation is similar to that project. In particular, take the following steps to get a copy up and running locally on your machine.
After creating an account on Github and uploading ssh keys there, do the following on your machine. You need to have git installed.
$ git clone [email protected]:roed314/seminars.git
$ cd seminars
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
To generate the default config file config.ini, run
$ python start-seminars.py --debug
You can now host a local version of the site by running the following in the top level seminars folder.
$ python start-seminars.py --debug