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[OH-Publicity] two blog posts about OSCTC events

Shauna Gordon-McKeon shaunagm at gmail.com
Thu Oct 31 17:38:31 UTC 2013


The Purdue post is now published as well:
http://openhatch.org/blog/2013/teaching-open-source-at-purdue-university/


On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon
<shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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