Do you have a tip you’d like to share? Have you pulled your hair out fixing a bug only to find out that the reason the bug exists is because many mainstream platforms don’t consider less-resourced languages? The Mother Tongues blog is the place to share your tips, tricks, and tutorials for all things related to technology for less-resourced languages.

To become an author, you’ll need a GitHub account¹.

Then, follow these steps:

1. Fork the Mother Tongues Blog Respository
2. Create a branch called dev.author and check it out

3. Edit the file labelled _config.yml. * denotes a required value.

   authors:
    AidanPine:
       name: Aidan
       display_name: Aidan
       gravatar: 7623fd3eeb0acbe1084fecc20c3093ae 
       email: [email protected]
       web: https://aidanpine.ca
       twitter: https://twitter.com/aidanpine
       description: "Lead developer of Mother Tongues."
    yourname*:              # This should be your twitter handle
        name: YourName*
        display_name: YourName*
        email: [email protected]*
        gravatar: YourGravatarID # this is an md5 hash of your email that you used to sign up for https://en.gravatar.com/ you can either calculate this on the command line, or use an online generator like https://www.md5hashgenerator.com/ 
        web: yoursite.com
        twitter: https://twitter.com/yourhandle
        description: "Guest Author. YourDescriptionHere"
   

4. Add your name to the list of authors in admin/config.yml

   - { label: 'Author', name: 'author', widget: 'select', options: [ 'AidanPine',    '_eddieantonio', 'delaney', 'fineen', 'YOURNAME' ] }
   

5. Submit a pull request to merge your changes in dev.author into the review branch.

That’s it! Start writing your posts.

Footnotes

1: Any suggestions for good GitHub tutorials? Leave them in the comments below!