App Developer Recipes Growth
Organize a contest to increase the number of high-quality tutorials present on the app developer site
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Jono Bacon
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- David Planella
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- David Planella
- Definition:
- Superseded
- Series goal:
- Accepted for raring
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
- David Planella
Whiteboard
App Developer Cookbook: http://
Contest requirements:
- The tutorial should be self-contained (downloadable source tarball?)
- Does not need to be Ubuntu-specific
- Dependencies only from the Ubuntu archives
Judging criteria
- Bonus points for integration with Ubuntu
How to submit a tutorial:
- Wordpress + SSO (currently not working)
- Repository + Markdown + Rendering
- http://
Considerations:
- Plagiarism
Prizes:
- Several categories
Recipes contest:
- We should have an initial set of requirements for tutorials before being accepted
- Screenshots?
- Completely working example/project for download?
- Minimum version of Ubuntu for which the tutorial works
- Audiences?
- We can have a set of tutorials for beginners/advanced or other categories
- We should define a license
- Versioning tutorials
- List of topics for tutorials that can serve as inspiration for contestants
- Add a a way so that other community members can submit topics they'd like to see tutorials for
404:
http://
Work Items
Work items for ubuntu-
[dpm] Draft the recipe contest rules: POSTPONED
[dpm] Update tutorial submission documentation: POSTPONED
[dpm] Write the app recipe contest guidelines: POSTPONED
[dpm] Figure out the prizes for the contest: POSTPONED
[dpm] Find out judges for the contest: POSTPONED
Work items:
[dpm] Update tutorial guidelines to allow submitting videos: TODO
[ajmitch] Investigate inserting pages into Wordpress after rendering pages from markdown: TODO
[dpm] Talk to IS about the Ubuntu SSO plugin and update the status of the RT ticket: TODO
[dpm] Fix the 404 on the "Adding gesture support to your app": TODO