RE: *Draft* CSS Beta Blog Post

Looks great. Thanks, Doug.

Only one tiny piece off feedback:

To meet these goals, we’ve decided to focus on one main topic at a time,
TO: To meet these goals, we’ve decided to focus on one main topic area at a time,

Eliot 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Schepers [mailto:schepers@w3.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 11:59 AM
> To: WebPlatform Community
> Subject: *Draft* CSS Beta Blog Post
> 
> Hi, folks-
> 
> On the telcon last week, I offered to break the ice for a blog post on our CSS
> properties page blog post. Many of you offered to help with it, for which I'm
> grateful. Here's the rough first draft, so we can establish tone.
> 
> Please be both brutal and swift in your comments, so we can send this out in
> the next hour or so.
> 
> 
> http://blog.webplatform.org/?p=363&preview=true

> [[
> Web Platform Wednesdays
> May 08 2013
> by Shepazu
> 
> Documenting the web, even just client-side technologies, is an enormous
> undertaking. We can’t do it alone, and we can’t do it all at once.
> 
> We want to send a clear signal to the web developer community about
> where our site is the most useful today, where it’s going next, and when
> it will get there. And to those who want to contribute, we want to make
> it clear and easy how to help. We also want to make sure that the
> content contributions are high quality.
> 
> To meet these goals, we’ve decided to focus on one main topic at a time,
> break it down into manageable morsels that can be accomplished in a
> week, and systematically knock out each article one at a time.
> 
> Given the interest from Brackets and other projects in using our CSS
> property reference documentation, and since that is an area of rapid
> growth and great interest, it seemed like a good place to start.
> 
> So, each Wednesday, we will announce a new set of articles that need
> work, and ask for volunteers to pick a task for one or more articles,
> work with the coordinator for that article, and report back when it’s
> ready for review. This way, we can systematically reach our goal  of CSS
> property excellence by the end of July.
> 
> This first week, we are concentrating on outline properties, and border
> properties for color, style, width, and shorthands.
> 
> Welcome to Web Platform Wednesday!
> ===
> 
> We’ve borrowed this idea from Mozilla’s Eric Shepard, who drove
> contributions to MDN through their Wiki Wednesday. Wednesday is a good
> day to get people’s attention to ask for some spare time… you’re over
> the back-to-work part of the week, and not yet at the
> ready-for-the-weekend part.
> 
> So, each Wednesday, we will post a set of 15-25 new items on a
> particular set of CSS topics that need reference pages, and we will ask
> for volunteers  to tackle one or more articles broken down into one or
> more tasks:
> 
> Basic facts, such as overview table, syntax, and values
> Explanatory text, such as the introduction (summary), usage, and notes
> Examples, with explanations
> Links to tutorials and other materials (either inside WPD or on the
> wider web), to the relevant specifications, and cross-linking keywords
> to other reference articles
> Review, including flagging and unflagging
> Each article has a coordinator managing it. Just check in with them to
> make sure there’s no duplication of effort, and dig in; we even provide
> the link to the target article and to the definition of the property in
> the appropriate CSS spec. Most tasks will be self-explanatory, but if
> you need help or guidance, check with the coordinator.
> 
> Obviously, different people will want to focus on different parts of the
> project. Maybe CSS isn’t your thing. That’s okay, we’ve got lots of
> irons in the fire, and people are working in the background on
> JavaScript and other topics. But our current main focus wil be CSS
> properties.
> 
> If you’ve wanted to contribute in the past, but weren’t sure how, we’re
> here to help guide you. Find us on our public-webplatform@w3.org email
> list, or Freenode #webplatform IRC channel, or even our @webplatform
> Twitter account, and we’ll get you started.
> 
> If this is successful, we’ll repeat the process for JavaScript, APIs,
> HTML, SVG, and other article topics. Together, we will make this site
> awesome!
> ]]
> 
> Regards-
> -Doug
>

Received on Wednesday, 8 May 2013 19:23:28 UTC