From 17fb85d739a0fc6cc028860ee7ebcc6182ba3270 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brendan Forster Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:54:26 +1000 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] first cut of show and tell --- _posts/2012-04-16-dodo-recap.md | 2 +- _posts/2012-04-17-learning-week.md | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 _posts/2012-04-17-learning-week.md diff --git a/_posts/2012-04-16-dodo-recap.md b/_posts/2012-04-16-dodo-recap.md index 55ef625..895b198 100644 --- a/_posts/2012-04-16-dodo-recap.md +++ b/_posts/2012-04-16-dodo-recap.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- layout: post permalink: /dodo-recap.html -date: 2012-04-16 23:00 +date: 2012-04-16 20:30 title: "dodo recap" author: "@shiftkey" comments: true diff --git a/_posts/2012-04-17-learning-week.md b/_posts/2012-04-17-learning-week.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b370398 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2012-04-17-learning-week.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +--- +layout: post +permalink: /show-and-tell.html +date: 2012-04-16 23:00 +title: "show and tell" +author: "@shiftkey" +comments: true +--- + +The Code52 organisers want to unveil an idea, but first we want to test out our theory with a little experiment. And it involves you. + +## Some Background + +Since we kicked off Code52 at the start of the year, we've talked with many developers who are keen to get involved with OSS development but don't really have the time to dedicate a full week to working on a specific idea. + +Does that sound like you? Well this is your week. + +We want to hear what you have been working with in your spare time. We want to hear about the cool stuff we haven't had a chance to use. We want to get jealous of how you've used it and what you've learned. + +In short, we want to hear your stories. + +## Show and Tell + +We're looking for people to write short articles on stuff they've used recently or something they've built recently to share with the big wide world. + +We want to hear: + + - what did you find that is awesome? + - what is awesome about it? + - how did you use it? + - what did you learn from using it? + - is there some code that people can have a play with? + +It doesn't have to be a long post. And things like pictures and code snippets are fine to help show it off. + +Already written about something cool you'd like to share? Tweet a link to the [@Code_52](http://twitter.com/Code_52) account and we'll get in touch. If we're suitably impressed by your awesomeness, we'll send it out to the world. + +Don't have a blog? Don't worry! You can fork [this website](http://github.com/Code52/code52.github.com) on GitHub and add your own post to the [posts folder](http://github.com/Code52/code52.github.com/tree/master/_posts). Once you've written the post, send us a pull request and we can proof-read it before pushing it live. + +If you haven't seen it before, the site layout and content is used by a tool called [Jekyll](http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki) to create the site content. + +The Code52 gang have built a couple of tools which might help with writing the posts - [MarkPad](http://code52.org/DownmarkerWPF) for writing Markdown content and [Pretzel](http://code52.org/pretzel) for testing the site locally. You should check them out! \ No newline at end of file From ffc825db1ae7c017aa6c2b52cdc07711eac222a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brendan Forster Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:05:14 +1000 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] minor edits --- _posts/2012-04-17-learning-week.md | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/_posts/2012-04-17-learning-week.md b/_posts/2012-04-17-learning-week.md index b370398..2d5f0d8 100644 --- a/_posts/2012-04-17-learning-week.md +++ b/_posts/2012-04-17-learning-week.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ author: "@shiftkey" comments: true --- -The Code52 organisers want to unveil an idea, but first we want to test out our theory with a little experiment. And it involves you. +The Code52 organisers have been bouncing around an idea over the past couple of weeks, but before we dedicate some time to getting it off the ground we want to test out our theory with a little experiment. And it involves you. ## Some Background @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Since we kicked off Code52 at the start of the year, we've talked with many deve Does that sound like you? Well this is your week. -We want to hear what you have been working with in your spare time. We want to hear about the cool stuff we haven't had a chance to use. We want to get jealous of how you've used it and what you've learned. +We want to hear about what you have been working with in your spare time. We want to hear about the cool stuff we haven't had a chance to use. We want to get jealous about hearing how you've used it and what you've learned about it. In short, we want to hear your stories. @@ -33,10 +33,10 @@ We want to hear: It doesn't have to be a long post. And things like pictures and code snippets are fine to help show it off. -Already written about something cool you'd like to share? Tweet a link to the [@Code_52](http://twitter.com/Code_52) account and we'll get in touch. If we're suitably impressed by your awesomeness, we'll send it out to the world. +Already written about something cool you'd like to share? Tweet a link to the [@Code_52](http://twitter.com/Code_52) account and we'll get in touch. If we're suitably impressed by your awesomeness, we'll share it with the world. Don't have a blog? Don't worry! You can fork [this website](http://github.com/Code52/code52.github.com) on GitHub and add your own post to the [posts folder](http://github.com/Code52/code52.github.com/tree/master/_posts). Once you've written the post, send us a pull request and we can proof-read it before pushing it live. -If you haven't seen it before, the site layout and content is used by a tool called [Jekyll](http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki) to create the site content. +If you haven't seen it before, the site layout and content is used as input for [Jekyll](http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki) to generate the site content. The Code52 gang have built a couple of tools which might help with writing the posts - [MarkPad](http://code52.org/DownmarkerWPF) for writing Markdown content and [Pretzel](http://code52.org/pretzel) for testing the site locally. You should check them out! \ No newline at end of file