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# The Node.js Collection Team
A place for [the Node.js Collection](https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection) to organize the technical editing process for articles submitted to the publication.

## Purpose of Node.js Foundation Medium publication
The Node.js Foundation’s new [Medium](https://medium.com/) publication serves as a channel for the community to broadcast to a wide audience its views related to Node.js and its ecosystem. This may include:
## Purpose of Node.js Collection publication
The Node.js Collection is a [Medium](https://medium.com/) publication which serves as a channel for the community to broadcast to a wide audience its views related to Node.js and its ecosystem. This may include:

- Summaries of incubated projects or technical decisions made
- Working project initiatives
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- Reports on Node.js and JavaScript events (these events must have a code of conduct to be considered)
- Other topics will certainly be considered, but it should be something of interest to the Node.js community

## Editors
We have list of people who review the post before publishing. If the post is specific to some technical topic, we seek review from someone who has knowledge of that domain.

### How to become an editor?
We are looking for more reviewers. If you are interested, please open an issue in [nodejs-collection repo](https://github.com/nodejs/nodejs-collection/issues) with these details and the team will review it.
- Name
- Experties (i.e IoT, Node.js Modules, cli, APIs etc)
- How much time you can give per week. (i.e 1-2 hours)

### Benefits of being an editor
- Your name will be added to the [current editors list](https://github.com/nodejs/nodejs-collection#current-editors).
- You'll be added to [editors list on Medium](https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/about).
- Possibility to become a member of Node.js Project and avail benefits like [Travel Fund](https://github.com/nodejs/admin#travel-fund).
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This is a benefit of being a member of the project.

If being an editor includes being a member of the project, this is inherently true and phrasing it like this is slightly misleading since it's something that comes inherently anyway rather than a specific benefit of this work.

If being an editor does not include being a member of the project, then this is also slightly misleading since there is additional work above and beyond being an editor that this requires.

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Being an editor will not include being project member. I think we should keep it nomination based. Like here.
Once we see, someone is actively reviewing posts for 2,3 months, we can nominate them to become part of Node.js Collection ( -> Community Committee -> Node.js Project).

I also don't want to overdo it in the start. Let's go with an easy and simple process, once we have enough editors, we can even put this on hold.

Point to mention Travel Fund here was that people know what benefits would they get in return. People who are not part of the project already, may not even know that there is a travel fund benefit.

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Point to mention Travel Fund here was that people know what benefits would they get in return.

This is a good thing to include for the relevant groups. I do think it's important though to include it in the correct place, and, as you said, this is not something that people will get but something they could get if they stick around.

Once we see, someone is actively reviewing posts for 2,3 months, we can nominate them to become part of Node.js Collection ( -> Community Committee -> Node.js Project).

Is this documented anywhere? If so, I think that is the most appropriate place to include that context since it's the context in which it is accurate.


### Current Editors
* [bnb] - **Tierney Cyren** <hello@bnb.im>
* [rromoff] - **Rachel Romoff**
* [waleedashraf] - **Waleed Ashraf** <waleedashrafhere@gmail.com> **Node.js Collection Champion**

## Quality
We are looking for posts that inform, teach, experiment, and generally enrich our community. There's no hard and fast rule of what an article should or feel like; Node.js Collection articles should be as diverse as the community itself. Ideally, contributions should encourage readers to explore new ideas, dig deeper into old ones, and to inspire readers to experiment and tinker. Articles can cover any number of topics such as:

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- Best Practices (How To)
- Embedded/IoT
- AI/Mobile
- More (Essentially news from the Foundation and potentially more editorial style content about the future of Node.js Core) - see Google Cloud Platform’s More section as an example [here](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com).
- More (Essentially news from the project and potentially more editorial style content about the future of Node.js Core) - see Google Cloud Platform’s More section as an example [here](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com).

If you're passionate about something not listed above, please don't hesitate to submit your idea for consideration.

## Resources
* [Trello Board](https://trello.com/b/M9VUQl9S/nodejs-collection)

### Key Roles:
- **Contributor/Writer** : Person submitting article or idea for inclusion on the Node.js Collection
- **Editor** : Technical Reviewer. Person who ensures the content's technical integrity.

## Guidelines/General Tips of Submissions

- Posts from members and community members must be vendor neutral, though they may mention vendors involved in specific project deployments if this serves the purpose of educating readers.
- Posts about hosting of an in-person event or speaking at an event, or other indications of meaningful participation in the community, are allowed, but again shouldn’t feel like an advertisement for your services or company.
- Your post must be your original content, but can be published on the Node.js Foundation Medium publication, if you received permission from the editors of the website to do so.
- Posts from members and community members must be vendor-neutral, though they may mention vendors involved in specific project deployments if this serves the purpose of educating readers.
- Posts about hosting of an in-person event or speaking at an event, or other indications of meaningful participation in the community, are allowed, but again shouldn’t feel like an advertisement for your services or company.
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- Your post must be your original content, but can be published on the Node.js Collection publication, if you received permission from the editors of the website to do so.
- All content should have a byline (preferably by a company engineer) and be published with Creative Commons with Attribution, so you’re welcome to republish on your blog.
- The most interesting posts are ones that teach or explain how to do something in a way maybe others haven’t thought of. Good blog posts show hurdles that were encountered and explain how they were overcome (not that everything is rainbows and unicorns).
- A few posts that have performed well on the Node.js Foundation Medium page include Walmart Strives to be an Online Retailer with Node.js (use case); Node.js Transitions to LTS (news); The Progress of Node.js Post io.js and Node.js merger (progress update).
- When showing upstreaming of a patch fixing an issue for others, link back to the Github issue so readers can follow along.
- We don’t avoid critical commentary or broad issues, but approach them with sensitivity, professionalism and tact in a way that is beneficial and positive for the community.
- Node.js Foundation Medium posts should be no longer than 1,000 words and no shorter than 300 words.

Diagrams or photos are strongly encouraged.
- The most interesting posts are ones that teach or explain how to do something in a way maybe others haven’t thought of. Good blog posts show hurdles that were encountered and explain how they were overcome (not that everything is rainbows and unicorns).
- A few posts that have performed well on the Node.js Collection Medium page include Walmart Strives to be an Online Retailer with Node.js (use case); Node.js Transitions to LTS (news); The Progress of Node.js Post io.js and Node.js merger (progress update).
- When showing upstreaming of a patch fixing an issue for others, link back to the GitHub issue so readers can follow along.
- We don’t avoid critical commentary or broad issues but approach them with sensitivity, professionalism, and tact in a way that is beneficial and positive for the community.
- Node.js Collection Medium posts should be no longer than 1,000 words and no shorter than 300 words.
- Diagrams or photos are strongly encouraged.

## How to submit for consideration

- Please submit a brief summary and the topic of the post to `medium@nodejs.org` for consideration.
- Members of the Node.js Collection Technical Review Team and Node.js Foundation PR team will review your submission in a timely manner and provide the green light to draft the entire article or provide feedback or direction.
- If you are submitting an article or presentation that already exists, please send it in its entirety with a note on the expressed permission to publish from the owner of content.
- Once your submission has been approved, it will be added to the Node.js Foundation Medium publication publishing calendar and a publish date will be provided, so you may plan to promote accordingly through your personal and company’s social media channels.
- Please create a Google Doc with a brief summary and the topic of the post.
- Send the Google Doc to `medium@nodejs.org` for consideration.
- Members of the Node.js Collection Technical Review Team and OpenJS Foundation PR team will review your submission in a timely manner and provide the green light to draft the entire article or provide feedback or direction.
- A task will be created in [Trello Board](https://trello.com/b/M9VUQl9S/nodejs-collection) with current status of the submission.
- If you are submitting an article or presentation that already exists, please send it in its entirety with a note on the expressed permission to publish from the owner of the content.
- Once your submission has been approved, it will be added to the Node.js Collection Medium publication publishing calendar and a publish date will be provided, so you may plan to promote accordingly through your personal and company’s social media channels.

## Review Process for Original Posts
- The review team will provide comments and edits.
- Once the review team has made suggested edits, they will share all suggested edits with the author who has final sign off on content.
- If the author feels comfortable, we would also like to list out the names of the technical editors of the post.
- The review team will share all suggested edits with the author, who has final sign off on content.
- Zibby Keaton will then post to the Node.js Foundation Medium publication.
- The review process may take between two to three weeks depending on the number of edits and revisions involved.
## About This Team
The Node.js Collection Team is overseen by the [Node.js Community Committee](https://github.com/nodejs/community-committee).

## Review Process for Created Medium Posts
- Members from the evangelism working group are invited to become editors on Medium. If interested, contact Zibby Keaton here: zkeaton@linuxfoundation.org.
- Editors are allowed to request to put already available public content on the Node.js Foundation Medium publication if they follow the above guidelines.
- If you are interested in becoming a technical editor, please file an issue.

## About This Team
The Node.js Collection Team is overseen by the [Node.js Community Committee](https://github.com/nodejs/community-committee).
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