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su_heraldAs you've probably heard if you're reading this, the Herald has been at least one editor short for a few months now.
This isn't a guilt trip post, though. (We'll do that later.)
Instead, we've been thinking about ways to make Heralding easier and less time-consuming, in case that helps someone who may be on the fence about volunteering.
If you saw the phrase "HTML template" in our previous calls for editors and that was what made you decide that Herald duties aren't for you, you may be glad to hear that we've set up an alternative posting process! It's much less reliant on the ability to find one's way around HTML formatting tags, and it involves less copy-pasting and more clicking. It's pretty cool. If you're curious, we'll be happy to show you what this posting process looks like!
Or, perhaps there's someone out there who doesn't have an interest in making a weekly newsletter post but DOES have programming skills? Someone who could set up a more efficient way to get links from point A (a collection of feeds) to point B (a formatted list)? We think it might involve Python or JavaScript and maybe the Pinboard API. Everything we do here is on a volunteer basis, though, so you'd be lending us your expertise out of the goodness of your heart. [ETA: we found someone for this.]
As always, everyone, please feel free to ask us stuff and find out more about what volunteering for the Herald would be like! We don't expect anyone to commit to any duties before you're ready (or at all, if you talk to us and then decide it isn't for you). :)
If you'd like to contact us, sending me a message on Dreamwidth or emailing thenewbuzwuzz@protonmail.com are two good ways to do that. Commenting on this post should work fine too, but if I haven't replied within 24 hours, assume that spam protection ate your comment and you should try another way.
This isn't a guilt trip post, though. (We'll do that later.)
Instead, we've been thinking about ways to make Heralding easier and less time-consuming, in case that helps someone who may be on the fence about volunteering.
If you saw the phrase "HTML template" in our previous calls for editors and that was what made you decide that Herald duties aren't for you, you may be glad to hear that we've set up an alternative posting process! It's much less reliant on the ability to find one's way around HTML formatting tags, and it involves less copy-pasting and more clicking. It's pretty cool. If you're curious, we'll be happy to show you what this posting process looks like!
Or, perhaps there's someone out there who doesn't have an interest in making a weekly newsletter post but DOES have programming skills? Someone who could set up a more efficient way to get links from point A (a collection of feeds) to point B (a formatted list)? We think it might involve Python or JavaScript and maybe the Pinboard API. Everything we do here is on a volunteer basis, though, so you'd be lending us your expertise out of the goodness of your heart. [ETA: we found someone for this.]
As always, everyone, please feel free to ask us stuff and find out more about what volunteering for the Herald would be like! We don't expect anyone to commit to any duties before you're ready (or at all, if you talk to us and then decide it isn't for you). :)
If you'd like to contact us, sending me a message on Dreamwidth or emailing thenewbuzwuzz@protonmail.com are two good ways to do that. Commenting on this post should work fine too, but if I haven't replied within 24 hours, assume that spam protection ate your comment and you should try another way.
