Add a page to refer people to for writing for us

This page describes the Community writers program.

• How it works
• What we're looking for
• A link to form

It's not currently linked from anywhere. We will start by sending the link invite-only to start while we iron out the process, create styleguide etc.

This page can also be redesigned, but we can start by getting the content up!

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/501

Notes from call w @AshleyS

• Add image header to make it more nicer-er
• Add CTA at bottom
• Spacing at bottom of page before footer

Reassigned to @nearlythere

Not sure why the  s are mixed in here. Can we change them to normal spaces?

@rspeicher hah! deleted.

Also - Per @AshleyS's request!

• Added image
• Clear CTA button
• Bottom spacing
• Changed path to community/writers

Later we can also list all the fabulous writers that have participated! So makes sense to be "writers" plural, besides the fact that it reads better out loud.

This thing is GOOD TO GO.

mentioned in merge request !1378 (merged)

More feedback from technical writers:

• It's not clear what the scale is. How is the amount decided?

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• 65a1e61c - actually putting this in the right branch. this is the call for writers updated.

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• 6e289efa - add image

@AshleyS the actual file is now there w the image. I was working in the wrong branch. ha ha.

also got some feedback which was helpful!

• h

@axil For your consideration!

Title changed from Add a page to refer people to for writing for us to WIP: Add a page to refer people to for writing for us

Added WIP because that green button makes me want to press it

@nearlythere does this really need to be an html page or can we make it a markdown one?

@sytses Hmm I based this off of other regular pages in these sections, and they were HTML. I assumed to use the magic of bootstrap I needed to use HTML. Is that wrong?

If we're actually using the Bootstrap grid system then it's fine to leave this as HTML.

@nearlythere do you need a grid on this page? or can it just be a simple web page?

@sytses Yes, In this case to take advantage of the responsive image class and other layout tools. We can work on the basic page template to make it possible to add feature images in the redesign.

I think I get it... this page is hard to read as HTML. As Alex also pointed out there are spacing issues.

I honestly am not great at writing HTML, I even fell back to markdown mode. I used a tool to format the HTML. It's not pretty. I can fix tomorrow.

I think it does have to be done in HTML in this case - for the layout + image.

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• f3cee56d - reformat to make it all nice and pretty.

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• e7209ce3 - fix link

@AshleyS OK, most of the chatter above was HTML formatting / bugs.

This is good to go!

Reassigned to @AshleyS

Title changed from WIP: Add a page to refer people to for writing for us to Add a page to refer people to for writing for us

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• 78227862 - typos fixed

Status changed to merged

mentioned in commit 4d4439fb

mentioned in commit e59b2d18