Tech Digest Issue 2

[zhangxd6]

I would like to discuss the content we want to go into second issue here. What is broader topic should be in the second issue?

[zhangxd6]

@GulfCoastCodeCamp/techdigest I would like to try use issue tracker to share idea about what are going into digest. let me know what is your thought use this or slack.

[patdavid]

How often are the digests planned on being produced, and do you have enough content to support the frequency you want to post on?

If this is just an email I would focus first on approximating the average content available throughout a year (5 events? 10? 20 things?). Use that as a basis for frequency of posting digests.

How many unique items, minimum, should appear in each digest to be useful and appear to show activity? 3? 5? (I'm not sure, just spitballing ideas). I would say at the very least 3 items per digest, preferably 5 or more.

That means in a given year, you'll need at least 36 unique things happening to send this monthly.

[zhangxd6]

The digest will be the email format. It will be delivered quarterly initially and as the community grows, I would like it to settle down to a monthly newsletter.

I am considering the most recipients will be either new or experienced in IT who want to learn the topics that are not his day to day work. Therefore, I am leaning toward the content for beginners and intermediate level audiences. Over years, I collect many articles that can be shared but they are organized ready to be consumed. Plus, these are limited to topics that I am interested in. This is why I build this newsletter to let community share and learn from each other. This repository is one attempt to facilitate the crowd sourcing of content from the team as a starting point and hopefully, extend to the broader community in addition to the form on the website.

For each newsletter, it will be great we can have 2-5 articles and some tech events around the region. This issue is currently planned to be sent out sometime around the end of the year, so we should have enough time to prepare an useful one as far as articles go. But I am not sure we will have enough local events to share with subscribers.

[zhangxd6]

I am thinking this issue's topics, considering articles about javascript and css. Here are some
https://codeburst.io/understand-closures-in-javascript-d07852fa51e7
https://mor10.com/wceu2017/
any thought?

[patdavid]

Sure! I'd maybe start with a high level list of topics you think you'd like to include for this version. This could be a few things/tech (js, React, db [PSQL, Mongo, NoSQL, etc.], Design? - UI/UX, middleware, etc...)

I'm not sure what the overall gulf coast tech scene is really like - mostly design? JS/Web? Enterprise DB? Have any insight here? The articles will be directly relative to the number of people in the area that could possibly contribute to the newsletter, right? So if there are no designers, it'll be hard to find some good info locally produced. :)

[zhangxd6]

I am trying to have a different focus on each issue; I am considering about js/CSS for this coming one. But this is not set stone. Current subscribers are those registered the code camp this September, whose background varies and most are students and I guess most professionals are developers. These articles aim to the beginner or intermediate level and if possible attract those professionals to submit content they want to share.