Hi all, see the message below - also see my blog post about it - http://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/65619.html - and the vim subrredit post:
http://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/15o6v1/announcing_the_vim_beginners_site/ (No comments yet, but I'm hopeful I'll get some.) Regards, Shlomi Fish Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 01:30:12 +0200 From: Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> To: vim_...@googlegroups.com Subject: Announcement : http://vim.begin-site.org/ - The Vim Beginners' Site Hi all, I would like to announce that today I started working on http://vim.begin-site.org/ - the Vim Beginners’ Site, which is a static site generated by the Jekyll offline CMS (which I learned today, after finding a post of someone who converted his site from XML+XSLT to it, as I considered using XSLT first). Currently many links are broken and the content is incomplete, but: 1. The site's source code is open-source / open-content (MIT/X11 | CC-by ). 2. One can easily contribute to it: * http://vim.begin-site.org/contribute/ * http://vim.begin-site.org/source/ - points to the BitBucket repo. 3. I'm noting ideas for resources here: * https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/vim-begin/src/131c08549754e47c0ccf3cbdf202e6b6c0300172/vim-begin/jekyll-prototype/TODO.txt?at=default (short URL - http://is.gd/WtjpJE ). 4. I'm planning to continue working on it myself. --- The inspiration for the site is http://perl-begin.org/ , which I also created and still maintain. I registered the begin-site.org and begin-site.com domains to serve as placeholders for more sites like that, and will be happy to refer their sub-domains to similar sites (e.g: c.begin-site.org , cpp.begin-site.org , clojure.begin-site.org , python.begin-site.org , emacs.begin-site.org , cooking.begin-site.org , etc.). Some people on IRC told me there was a genuine need for a site like that about Vim, and since I like Vim so much I decided to go for it. Enjoy, and I hope to see you contributing. Regards, Shlomi Fish P.S: while they are still not there, I am planning on putting some 100% non-intrusive non-animated images http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Wonderful ads on the site, similar to what I have on http://www.shlomifish.org/ . I hope you will not be too offended by them, but you can use an ad blocker, or alternatively set up a mirror of the site under a different domain, without the ads. So I think it is fair, given that I pay for the domain and the hosting. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ My Public Domain Photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/shlomif/ All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory… :-) — http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Larry_Wall Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Stop Using MSIE - http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/ <Botje> Khisanth =~ s/must sleep/must give Botje all my money/ . — Freenode’s #perl Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
