Oh, and I didn't mention but should have: introductory and how-to articles are more than welcome too! Newcomers are always joining in and having material that complements the official documentation in learning a portion of Mojolicious or a topic in web programming generally is always helpful.
On Saturday, November 3, 2018 at 3:54:16 PM UTC-5, Joel Berger wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > As I mentioned at Mojoconf, I am hoping to run the advent calendar again > this year, but I cannot do nearly as much work on it as last year, both for > sanity and personal reasons. Therefore I'm looking to you to help me out > with contributions. I've already gotten submissions from two authors, more > ideas from another few of you. Well now's the time! If you want in, and if > you want to be sure the calendar happens and is a success, start getting > those posts to me. I don't have a firm deadline, but I need probably 10 or > so in to me before the end of the month in order to go ahead, and probably > at least 10 more by publishing date, whenever that is. I'll commit to 5. > > As to topics, I think we have promises covered, indeed I'm going to send > out an email to those of you who want to do articles on promises so that we > can coordinate. I myself am taking the Async/Await pattern and hopefully > library announcement. > > Other topics can include anything from your library, your favorite > library, your favorite pattern, something you use Mojo for, or whatever > else you want to write about. Remember, even if what you do with > Perl/Mojo/The Web seems ordinary, it isn't ordinary to everyone else. We > all do different things and what seems mundane to you every day will be > fascinating to others. > > I'll be taking submissions in markdown format. Please use 4 space > indentation for code blocks as the markdown renderer hasn't caught up with > github flavor code fences. > > Please include a short but engaging title and at least a few paragraphs of > text. > > Every article should come either with an image or an idea for an image, > for the top banner and other marketing (think twitter). If that image is > included, I need to have a link to the source, which must be appropriately > licensed. Searching on wikimedia is a great way to start or else searching > on google images with the license filter on. See last year's calendar for > how that looks. > > If you didn't contribute last year, please include your full name (or how > you'd like to be credited), with a sentence or two about yourself, and a > gravatar url or image (if desired). > > You may submit as PRs to the github repo ( > https://github.com/jberger/mojolicious.io) or emailed to me. Don't worry > about getting the dates or metadata right, we'll figure that all out. And > please contact me if you have any trouble or questions. > > Cheers, > > Joel Berger > > P.S. If authors submit articles but we don't get enough, they will still > get published, it just may not be structured as a calendar. Don't worry, > contributions will not be wasted either way. > > P.P.S. ... but calendars are more fun, submit something and help us get > there! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mojolicious" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mojolicious. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
