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[OH-Publicity] two blog posts about OSCTC events

Shauna Gordon-McKeon shaunagm at gmail.com
Tue Oct 29 16:28:20 UTC 2013


Okay, the IAQ is posted!  (We'll hold the Purdue post for another couple
days.)  I made most of the suggested changes.

Thanks for the feedback, everyone!


On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Britta Gustafson <brittag at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ooh, I agree that these are great!
>
> In "Infrequently Asked Questions: Bloomington", "has has" in the
> following sentence seems like it's supposed to say something else (maybe
> "haven't"?): "First, if people on the mailing list or the bug tracker has
> has told you to stop talking, then you’re probably okay, even if they
> haven’t replied to you yet."
>
> I'm also wondering if there is way to frame "Infrequently Asked Questions:
> Bloomington" that makes it a little more enticing for people who haven't
> yet clicked that post, or who have only read the first part and stopped
> reading before they got to the end.
>
> Maybe a slightly more detailed title? "Answers for new contributors, from
> patch commands to contributing design skills" or something along those
> lines? It's hard to summarize the post since the four questions are all
> different, but some sense of the content.
>
> I think it could be interesting to put the third and fourth questions
> first ("How can I help open source projects with design?" and "I’m worried
> that I’ll be a burden on a project because I’m so new"), since those
> questions seem the most relevant to people who visit and want to learn from
> OpenHatch.
>
> The beginning could also include a tiny summary like the following, to
> help people decide if they want to scroll down even if they happen to not
> be interested in the first question: "These questions are from our IU
> Bloomington event, where people asked about how to contribute design to
> projects, concerns about being a burden as a new contributor, making only
> parts of a project open source, and flags for the patch and diff commands."
>
> Britta
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I have two posts ready to be reviewed, one a review of our Purdue event:
>> http://openhatch.org/blog/?p=1981&preview=1&_ppp=0cd4c6e5bf
>>
>> The other is a post of 'Infrequently Asked Questions' from Bloomington:
>> http://openhatch.org/blog/?p=1987&preview=1&_ppp=b381d21894
>>
>> I welcome feedback.  (Especially from you, Asheesh!  You still owe me an
>> edit of the IAQ.)  Also if anyone has opinions about which order to release
>> them in, because I'm indifferent.  I was figuring we'd post one Tuesday and
>> one Thursday.
>>
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