How You Can Help

You'd like to help? That's great!

Helpful Hints

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• The web interface can handle most easy changes.
• If you want to work with a local clone, there's a software list that might help you out.
• You can't push by default if you're not a member of the newhaven.rb organization. We'll be happy to give you this access to contribute, but another option is forking and making a pull request. NOTE: the "code" repository may be out of date relative to the "wiki" repository.

Things You Can Do

You can make any improvement that you'd like, but here are some ideas:

For Anyone

If you feel like you need to coordinate on a task, consider adding a bullet point below with your GitHub username.

Easy

• Pass the word along! The more eyes and contributors, the better. Examples: tweet, email, tell a coworker.
• Become a watcher. It's a little like saying "thank you" in GitHub-ese. :)
• Read the notes. Fixing typos, awkward/confusing wording comes naturally.
• Check spelling. We have some problems with spelling. Many of these notes were written without a spell checker (e.g., in vim without having done :set spell). The programs aspell and ispell might be useful also.

Medium

• Add links. One of our goals is to have a comprehensive list of links to slides, gems, related sites, videos, etc.
• Start a discussion. Anything relating to the talk is fair game. One example of this is the DHH keynote. Also, see the template.
• Contribute missing notes. Talks missing notes are marked with "TODO" on the index.
• Add notes you've taken yourself. Please add a section (### From @username) if you're adding a large block of notes to help reduce merge conflicts, or just integrate with the existing notes.
• Improve a talk summary. A summary writting by one person might not be entirely accurate.
• Find more notes. Search for "railsconf" or "railsconf2012" on GitHub (or even Google) for people who may be interested in contributing. Keep in mind that they need to be fine licensing their work under the Creative Commons license that we use.
• Look for TODOs. Search for "TODO", "FIXME" in the wiki pages for (simple) tasks.

Medium-Hard

• Write a talk summary. Some of the abstracts are a bit long, and sometimes not entirely accurate. Having 3-4 sentences/bullets to summarize would be nice. Also, see the template.
• Work toward a single layout. Adjust existing notes to fit the suggested template, if it makes sense to do so.

Hard

• Combine notes. Many talks had notes taken by multiple people. It would make sense to merge them. This shouldn't be too bad, but will require more thought than the above tasks.
• Make a single "Ruby conference" wiki. This would need some discussion. See below.
  • I wrote some notes for RubyConf and RailsConf in 2011, which was how this wiki was originally created. :) It might make sense to rename this wiki, move the content here (from anyone who will allow it), and have it all in one place. - @benjaminoakes

For newhaven.rb Organization Members

• Merge pull requests. If there are any, we need to at least get back to the contributor with a comment.
• Update the "code" repository. Conceptually, as simple as git pull wiki && git push code master. We may want to automate this.
• Add analytics. Figure out if we can use our existing Google Analytics account with this wiki (e.g. via _Footer.md). GitHub doesn't provide great analytics on a page-by-page level.