Schedule and Circulation

Schedule

The Bulletin is a quarterly newsletter which we aim to publish at the end of every:

• March
• June
• September
• December

It is published in both a Markdown format (.md) and a PDF format (.pdf).

PDF

We use the previous issues on the Programming Historian Canva account by duplicating an existing Bulletin and making the relevant changes. Boxes can be added or removed depending on space requirements and the amount of news we have in each category.

Lesson thumbnails should be replaced with the matching avatar, and the 'read here' logo should be linked to the lesson's DOI.

We name the PDF YYYY-MM-DD-bulletin-issue-XX.pdf and upload it to /assets/bulletin.

Markdown

We use the template found on the Uncyclo.

The bottom link to 'download the bulletin as a PDF' should always be linked to the relevant PDF uploaded to /assets/bulletin/.

We name the Markdown file YYYY-MM-DD-bulletin-issue-XX.md and upload it to /_posts.

Circulation

We aim to circulate each Bulletin around the following channels:

• The website's blog page (.md)
• Twitter (link to blog post)
• Mastodon (link to blog post)
• Patreon (attach the .pdf and link to blog post)
• LinkedIn (attach the .pdf and link to blog post)
• Email (attach the .pdf and link to blog post)

For template announcement posts, see the shared Google Sheets document named bulletin-announcement-posts (currently only accessible to our Publishing Manager and Publishing Assistant).