Staging area for GISinc Blog Posts, for technical and content review.
Just a few things to keep in mind while writing; a good technical blog post:
- Describes the problem before presenting a solution
- Solves a problem
- Explains how to do something
- Is concise and to the point
- Is something you might be happy to see in a list of search results
- Can be boiled down to a one or two sentence summary, and still sound like something you'd read
- Hasn't already been written (how long did you spend searching for an answer?)
- Is fun (funny) to read.
Posts will be published every other Tuesday, and we'll schedule folks to write articles the month before; the goal is to generate high-quality content on a regular basis. This is intended to be an informal process, so if something isn't working for you, speak up!
By the end of the month before your target publish date:
- Sign up by adding your name and topic to the schedule
- Double check with your supervisor to get time allocated
By the end of the week before your target publish date:
- Write your article :)
- Post it to github
- Create a new issue with the article title and the appropriate label ("In Progress" or "In Review"). Please put a link to the actual article in the issue!
- If you like, create a new project card to track the article's progress; don't forget to add a label and assign it to yourself!
- Once your article is complete, let others know that it is ready for review
Once an article is marked as "In Review" by the author, we rely on peer review to help vet technical content and catch grammatical errors. When reviewing an article,
- For grammatical changes, either
- Edit the article directly in github
- Make a comment on the issue thread for that article, or
- Submit a pull request with corrections
- For content suggestions, make a comment on the issue thread for the article
- If you review an article and everything looks good, please make a note in the issue thread!
Plain text (i.e., markdown) is the easiest to work with, but don't let that be a blocker! If you're more comfortable using a word doc or anything else, go for it.
Use "GISinc", not "GIS, Inc" to refer to the company.
Please do not use line breaks within your paragraphs. Rather, let your text wrap and the output post will automatically handle your paragraphs properly.
If you're interested in learning about development workflows, writing a post in markdown and using git is a great way to get started, as is reviewing and submitting a pull request with changes. If you need help getting your post into the repo, just ask!
Note that you can edit markdown documents directly in github--this is especially useful for making minor corrections, but you can also use it to write a post if you prefer.
