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Promote RGSoC involvement #139

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jdm commented Feb 27, 2017

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## What is Rails Girls Summer of Code?

The Rails Girls Summer of Code program (RGSoC) takes place each year between July and September. Developers form pairs and

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flaki Feb 27, 2017

This might be nitpicking, but I'm not sure about the "Developers form pairs.." part.

I think I'd rather say something along the lines of

Applicants form pairs ("teams") and [...]

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Manishearth commented Feb 27, 2017

LGTM


Last year, [Jeena Lee](http://jeenalee.com/) and [Malisa Smith](http://hellomalisa.me/) implemented
the [Fetch API](https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/) as part of RGSoC. You can read about their experience in a
[talk](http://jeenalee.com/2016/10/26/donutjs.html) they gave about it; you can also read their

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You can read about their experience in a talk they gave...
This sounds a bit funny (reading about a talk, even though the actual link leads to a blogpost).

Maybe putting it something like this might be better:

You can learn more about their (journey|experiences) from the talk and blogpost they have presented [...]

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flaki commented Feb 27, 2017

Besides those two nitpicks, it looks good to me!
Let me know as it goes live, ideally early tmrw the latest so I can include it to the TS pitch. ;)

One more thing, the post in it's current form looks a bit bare to me, it would be great to add an image or two. The Servo logo in some form totally fits, and I would totally borrow the RGSoC call-to-action image from JAM's post, for the last paragraph or the very end of the post, it looks great, and fits the post perfectly:

Come Join Us
(with attribution, of course, and it probably wouldn't hurt to ask Jeena/Malisa, but I'm quite sure they wouldn't mind :) )

Great work, especially on such short notice, thank you Josh!

@jdm jdm merged commit d8c4573 into gh-pages Feb 28, 2017
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