Re: *Draft* CSS Beta Blog Post

Looks good to me, too. The main thing to stay away from is the word "beta"
(which, unless I'm mistaken, isn't in the posts anywhere), because we
haven't decided how these micro-betas will actually be positioned.


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Eliot Graff <Eliot.Graff@microsoft.com>wrote:

> 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
> >
>
>