Document how to make a blog post

[pikurasa]

I've read through the README, but I'm still a bit confused.

Also, I see https://github.com/sugarlabs/www/tree/master/_posts but all of those are markdown files.

How does one make a new post?

On a related note, we have a medium account at https://medium.com/@sugarlabs/about -- does anyone here know who is in charge of that?

[quozl]

Posts are from 2008 to 2014, and are rendered at https://www.sugarlabs.org/press/

Posts were inherited from the site before student-led redesign projects in 2015, 2016 and 2017.

README as it stands now was mostly written by the 2017 project, after the posts, and doesn't describe how to maintain them.

Yes, the posts are in Markdown format, and the site generates HTML and PDF from them. That's an important feature; the posts are in a form that is maintainable via GitHub. However, since 2014 the posts have not been maintained, and no new posts made by developers or the oversight board members.

As far as I can tell from a quick look, one makes a new post by creating a file in the _posts directory, using the format of a previous post as guidance. Feel free to try that, and I'll merge.

I've no idea who created the Medium account. I made a quick search of all my mail and could find no announcement. The blog post is generic, has the style of student writing at the time, and came out just after Google Code-In and before Google Summer of Code. I suspect it was a performance demonstration.

[pikurasa]

@quozl Thank you for this response.

I was able to successfully create a new HTML post by creating a new .md file in _posts and Jeckyll automatically generated the HTML and PDF. In the coming days, I'll document the process.

As for Medium, I did just very recently get access to it.

Thank you so much!