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

[Matthew Turk]

Thanks, Cameron.  I think a good workflow for this would be:

1) Blog via PR
2) Publish a link on the G+ page

I'm going to also revamp the "Community" section of the website to include
recent blog posts and recently uploaded data on the hub.

More: https://yt-project.atlassian.net/browse/YT-1


On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Cameron Hummels <chummels at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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