[yt-dev] Outreach to the community / blog rewrite / IPython notebooks

[Cameron Hummels]

This is awesome.  I'll work on putting together a worthwhile notebook for
use of something new in yt, and post to the blog.  Great job, Matt.

Cameron

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Yesterday I converted the blog to a new format.  It now uses ReST, the
> same format as sphinx.
>
> The blog can be a very effective means of reaching out to the community to
> share new information.  At a bootcamp I ran a few weeks ago, many
> experienced users of yt were seeing PlotWindow for the very first time.
>  We're doing some really cool stuff that nobody really knows about, because
> our communication channels are either transient (email), sparse (release
> announcements) or overwhelming (docs.)  A blog is a good middle ground, but
> our existing blog on Posterous was awful: no one knew how to format code,
> every post looked different, had to manually approve stuff, blah blah.
>
> So the new format uses ReST, and is super easy.
>
> Fork here:
>
> https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/blog/fork
>
> And add a new .rst file under content/post/ .  You should set an "author"
> and you can see how this is done elsewhere.
>
> Then issue a pull request, and bam, as soon as that PR is accepted, it
> gets rebuilt and posted at http://blog.yt-project.org/ .
>
> I've also written a converter using IPython's nbconvert that will convert
> to the format needed for this particular blogging engine.  So you can use a
> notebook to show some code, intersperse text and images, and then just run
> the blohg_converter.py script on it, and it will add a new post.  This part
> needs a bit of cleanup on my part, but it's somewhat documented already.
>
> Anyway, please -- if you do something cool, or write a new feature, add a
> post on the blog!  I looked at feedburner today and we have 21 subscribers.
>  I don't know how this is calculated, but yowza.
>
> -Matt
>
> --
>
> Technical details about the new blog:
>
> blohg for maintaining it (blohg.org)
> bitbucket for storing the repository
> shiningpanda for building
> s3 for hosting
> IPython's nbconvert as engine to drive conversion of .ipynb => blohg ReST
>
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