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+# We Are All Awesome
+
+A blog with the intention of motivating, encouraging, and helping women and other minorities to begin speaking at conferences.
+
+The site contains/will contain links to great talks, advice on generating getting ideas and writing proposals, conferences with open CFPs, etc.
+
+## Contribute
+
+1. Fork the repository
+2. `gem install jekyll`
+3. Make your changes
+4. Submit a pull request
+
+### Text format
+
+If you're not familiar with markdown, check out [Daring Fireball's syntax guide](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax).
+
+
+### Adding a blog post
+
+Posts go in the `_posts` directory, and should be named `YYYY-MM-DD-the-title-of-the-post.md`
+
+Start it off with the following:
+
+    ---
+    layout: main
+    title: The Title of the Post
+    ---
+
+    # {{ page.title }}
+
+(where you'd swap out `The Title of the Post` with the actual title, obviously).
+
+Then add whatever content you want below this.
+
+### Eyeballing Your Changes
+
+In the root of the project, run `jekyll` to generate the html files.
+Then go to the `_site` directory and run the server.
+
+    cd _site
+    jekyll --server
+
+When you run `jekyll --server` you'll probably see webrick start up. Look for the port number.
+
+    [2012-06-23 14:02:42] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=3642 port=4000
+
+Here it started on port 4000. That means that I can go see the actual site at (localhost:4000)[http://localhost:4000/]
+
+## If you're still confused, ask Uncle Google
+
 Actual conversation (with typos corrected) from #stationx on freenode about how I need to write a README
 
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