[OH-Publicity] "Release Notes" blog post for Wellesley event

[Deb Nicholson]

Just to get the juices flowing...

"Open Source Came to Campus: Wellesley Edition"
"What we learned this weekend: Open Source at Wellesley"
"We came, we saw, we learned: Open Source at Wellesley"
"Open Source Weekend at Wellesley"
"FLOSSed Weekend: Teaching Open Source at Wellesley"




On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon
<shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>>
>> I'd suggest changing the title to:
>>
>> "Teaching open source at Wellesley College"
>>
>> (For context, Shauna and Michael Stone and I talked about how we might
>> rework these posts to be more dense and call them "release notes," but it
>> seems to me it's sort of a jargon-y term so I'd prefer not to use the
>> phrase in the posts, even if we do call them that on the Publicity list,
>> say.) I'm not dogmatic, I just want something that feels less like jargon
>> than "Release notes". But maybe if we explain the jargon, that'd be okay.
>>
>
> That title is achingly dull to me, but you're right that "Release Notes"
> is jargon-y.  I'm torn between advocating that we use the phrase and
> explain it, or come up with something else.  Since it's the only thing
> holding up the post, I'm going to use your suggestion for this one, and
> publish the post.  But I want to continue the discussion!
>
>
>
>> I would also chang ethe 'slug' (see the "Permalink" section in the
>> WordPress UI away from 'release-notes-wellesley-**462013' to just
>> 'wellesley', since shorter URLs are easier to link to.
>>
>
> Done.
>
>
>
>> I would change "Bugs" in the middle to something more clearly indicative
>> of positive work -- for example, "Contributions made by students" or "What
>> students worked on". Perhaps preface that with a sentence like, "During the
>> Contributions Workshop, students worked on the following bugs."
>>
>>
> Done.
>
>
>> I made a few simple copy edits, which I'll summarize here:
>>
>> * In a list, even if it's of teaching events that took place during the
>> day, only capitalize the first word.
>>
>> * "Open Source Comes to Campus Event" => "Open Source Comes to Campus
>> event" (only Open Source Comes to Campus is a proper noun)
>>
>> For the schedule section, since you specially asked, here are some
>> suggestions:
>>
>> * Link to the laptop setup <https://openhatch.org/wiki/**
>> Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/**Wellesley/Laptop_setup<https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Wellesley/Laptop_setup>
>> >
>>
>> Hmm, that's all that comes to mind.
>>
>> Oh, one other meta-erratum -- I worked through the stuff in
>> https://openhatch.org/wiki/**Events/Logistics/Wrap_up<https://openhatch.org/wiki/Events/Logistics/Wrap_up>as part of our wrap-up for the first time, and it worked great, so consider
>> saying so.
>
>
> Done.
>
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