<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><div>In keeping with Fedora, oVirt and some of our other communities with vibrant content, I'm extending a new proposal around how we can create more content that gets published on <a href="http://blog.gluster.org">blog.gluster.org</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>Here's some new guidelines patterned after those: </div><div><br></div><div>## Make Your Proposal</div><div><br></div><div>When you are ready to create a blog article for Gluster.org, you can send a proposal for your article to social-media@<a href="http://gluster.org/" target="_blank">gluster.org</a>. Include:</div><div><br></div><div>* Proposed title</div><div>* 1-3 sentence summary of the article</div><div>* Any relevant date information (Should this be tied to a release?) </div><div><br></div><div>When writing articles for the Gluster blog, the goal is to keep your articles short, sweet, and to the point. </div><div>News from all different parts of the community will be posted here, so not everyone will read longer articles. However, it is encouraged to link to more detailed blog posts, articles, or other news sources to help those who are interested learn more about what you are working on! Ideally, your Gluster blog article should be a quick “headliner” pointing out the “big stuff” to grab peoples’ attention.</div><div><br></div><div>We're focusing on readability - ideally, this should be at a 4th grade reading level. All of our readers are going to suffer from too much information, constantly. If you want to check your readability score, try here: <a href="https://readability-score.com/">https://readability-score.com/</a> first. </div><div><br></div><div>Once your article is accepted, it will be noted as "Assigned" within the Gluster blog's WordPress platform.</div><div>If you have access to the platform, you can begin the writing process. If you need access, the editorial team will assign you a username and password to access<span style="font-size:12.8px"> WordPress.</span></div><div><br></div><div>## Basic Requirements: Categories and Tags</div><div><br></div><div>As you are writing, there are some housekeeping issues to keep in mind. Every article will need a few things to be published. First, your article must be added to categories relevant to your team. If you are writing an article about a new software being worked on, your post would be categorized as “Development”. If your post is about a Gluster meetup, you would use the “Events” category. And so on.</div><div><br></div><div>Additionally, add a few tags to your article to help categorize posts and make them easily searchable. You are free to add any tags you wish, but a good number is between 3-5 per article.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>## Email for Final Approval</div><div><br></div><div>Once you have finished writing your article, you should change it from “Draft” status to “Review”. Afterwards, send an email to social-media@<a href="http://gluster.org/" target="_blank">gluster.org</a> with a link to your article, announcing that it is ready for review. List members will review your article and either give you a +1 or -1 about whether you can publish. After meeting a threshold of at least two positive votes, your article will be marked as "published" or scheduled for the future.</div><div><br></div><div>Once your article is published, it will be automatically shared to the @Gluster Twitter, as well as other social media channels to help bring greater exposure to your article.</div></div><div class="" style="margin:2px 0px 0px;font-size:12.8px"></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Amye Scavarda | <a href="mailto:amye@redhat.com" target="_blank">amye@redhat.com</a> | Gluster Community Lead</div></div>
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