Fw: Announcement : http://vim.begin-site.org/ - The Vim Beginners' Site

[Jonathan Ben Avraham]

A commendable effort, Shlomi, thanks.

  - yba


On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 01:36:40 +0200
> From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org>
> To: Linux-IL <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
> Subject: Fw: Announcement : http://vim.begin-site.org/ - The Vim Beginners'
>     Site
> 
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 01:30:12 +0200
> From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org>
> To: vim_use at googlegroups.com
> Subject: Announcement : http://vim.begin-site.org/ - The Vim Beginners' Site
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to announce that today I started working on
> http://vim.begin-site.org/ - the Vim Beginners’ Site, which is a static site
> generated by the Jekyll offline CMS (which I learned today, after finding a
> post of someone who converted his site from XML+XSLT to it, as I considered
> using XSLT first). Currently many links are broken and the content is
> incomplete, but:
>
> 1. The site's source code is open-source / open-content (MIT/X11 | CC-by ).
>
> 2. One can easily contribute to it:
>
> * http://vim.begin-site.org/contribute/
>
> * http://vim.begin-site.org/source/ - points to the BitBucket repo.
>
> 3. I'm noting ideas for resources here:
>
> *
> https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/vim-begin/src/131c08549754e47c0ccf3cbdf202e6b6c0300172/vim-begin/jekyll-prototype/TODO.txt?at=default
>
> (short URL - http://is.gd/WtjpJE ).
>
> 4. I'm planning to continue working on it myself.
>
> ---
>
> The inspiration for the site is http://perl-begin.org/ , which I also created
> and still maintain. I registered the begin-site.org and begin-site.com domains
> to serve as placeholders for more sites like that, and will be happy to refer
> their sub-domains to similar sites (e.g: c.begin-site.org , cpp.begin-site.org ,
> clojure.begin-site.org , python.begin-site.org , emacs.begin-site.org ,
> cooking.begin-site.org , etc.).
>
> Some people on IRC told me there was a genuine need for a site like that about
> Vim, and since I like Vim so much I decided to go for it.
>
> Enjoy, and I hope to see you contributing.
>
> Regards,
>
> 	Shlomi Fish
>
> P.S: while they are still not there, I am planning on putting some 100%
> non-intrusive non-animated images
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Wonderful ads on the site, similar to
> what I have on http://www.shlomifish.org/ . I hope you will not be too offended
> by them, but you can use an ad blocker, or alternatively set up a mirror of the
> site under a different domain, without the ads. So I think it is fair, given
> that I pay for the domain and the hosting.
>
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>
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>
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