Webinar tomorrow about blogging with quarto+Netlify

[Toby Hocking]

Dear everyone involved with R-GSOC’26 (please forward to anybody I
forgot to include)
Congratulations and welcome to the bonding period!
Contributors, please keep in mind that the primary goal of GSOC is to
teach you about open source software development.
So please take time to read relevant documentation, ask mentors
questions, focus on your own learning, and make sure you communicate
your progress with mentors (typically in github issues and PRs) every
day you work on the project.
Of course a secondary goal is to have some great code at the end of summer too!
Please use github issues and PRs for most communication. (email is ok
for private communication only)
And can you please read https://406.fail/ ? It should help you
understand how a large part of the open source software community
feels about code contributions that are copied from AI (please avoid
doing that, it is disrespectful to the mentors/maintainers, who
volunteer their time to review your code).
Also I would suggest that each GSOC contributor write a blog about
their project, using quarto + Netlify.
I plan to give a virtual talk tomorrow morning on Teams, to explain
how to start a blog, using quarto + Netlify.
Please join if you are available.
Otherwise I plan to record the meeting and I will send a link to the video.
Here are the slides and abstract.
Title: Collaborative web sites with GitHub+Netlify
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JxfQnova7WlVuIyVXVNIAfogrqodBOx5kMWwj7DUiJg/edit?usp=sharing
Abstract: GitHub is a great free service for hosting source code, but
Pages has two major problems for hosting web sites (inefficiency of
putting web site files in the same repo as source code, no easy way to
preview web site updates in PRs). In this webinar we present Netlify,
a free web hosting service which solves these two problems. We show
step by step how to create a collaborative web site on Netlify, using
either quarto (for blog), or litedown/pkgdown (for R package
documentation web site). For each Pull Request on GitHub, Netlify
creates a preview web site, without modifying the main web site. After
others have reviewed the updated code and web site, merging the PR
updates the main site. All contributors to R Project in Google Summer
of Code should try using this approach for blogging and/or R package
documentation.


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[Toby Hocking]

Hi again, I forgot the time:
10AM Eastern USA time = 14H UTC,
Friday May 8.
Thanks!

[Toby Hocking]

Hi all, here is the video recording of the webinar, https://youtu.be/W8ZqRq5TzPk
Here are the slides again
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JxfQnova7WlVuIyVXVNIAfogrqodBOx5kMWwj7DUiJg