Want to help cover #news on DEV?

Update: Thanks to all those who have gotten in touch and are interested in helping with #news. I'm still working through logistics but will do my best to get back to you all soon. Regardless of whether or not you become a mod, I encourage all of you to help create more posts and comment on #news stories that you're interested in!

In an effort to encourage more developer-focused news coverage and conversations in #news, we're looking to create a DEV news team.

The team will be made up of tag moderators who will help us to stay current by writing short news stories and conversation prompts around software development.

#news Follow

Expect to see announcements of new and updated products, services, and features for languages & frameworks. You also will find high-level news relevant to the tech and software development industry covered here.

This group will have tag mod abilities so they can assist by keeping the news tag well-organized & on topic, as well as through promoting relevant & interesting dev news posts. But different from most tag mod expectations, we're particularly looking for folks who are prepared to write for this tag and lead by example — posting short newsworthy content and creating articles that will show onlookers how it's done.

We already work with one super awesome #news tag mod, Robin, who has set up some really great guidelines for the tag. With our plans to make this tag a bigger focus on DEV, we'd love to bring on more folks to assist so that we can create the most mind-blowing developer news team anyone has ever seen.

Uhh... maybe not that mind-blowing.

So, want to help out? Get in touch with me via email ([e-mail]), message me over Connect, or leave a note right here in the comments.👇

Comments

[Sean]

include me ☺

[Míriam Sánchez]

Hi! Could you give me more info? Would love to help :)

[Habdul Hazeez]

This sounds interesting and I'll love to contribute.

Edit: grammar fix.

[mogwai]

Count me in. How do I contribute?

[Awelle]

This is a super cool idea. I'm in!

[Keagan Van Rooyen]

Sounds good, I'm in if there is still space available.

[NaveenKumar Namachivayam ⚡]

Please add me in :)

[Gavin]

🙋🏻‍♂️I want to help.

[Niko Heikkilä]

Sounds cool. I follow tech topics regularly and would like to participate in this.

By the way, I enjoy the style Changelog is using in their news coverage: short and to the point with relevant source links.

[Michael Tharrington]

Wow, I really like this style of posts too! Thanks for pointing this out. We'll absolutely consider your offer to help! Just working out logistics of how big this group should be and such.

[Antonette Caldwell]

I am interested as well!

[Iain Freestone]

I would be interested in helping.

I run a weekly thread on here showcasing trending web development projects and I have to admit I was unaware of the #news tag, would this be the sort of material that would be useful?

🚀10 Trending projects on GitHub for web developers - 10th July 2020

Iain Freestone ・ Jul 10 '20 ・ 2 min read

#javascript #css #webdev #react

[Michael Tharrington]

This is absolutely useful material and a super cool series! I think this would work well for #news.

[Robin Kretzschmar]

That's one small step for the tag, one giant leap for DEV

I'm looking forward to more people posting about new products, services and interesting updates under the #news tag!
This will hopefully also attract more companies or teams behind products and services themselves to post here on DEV and also more discussions on those topics ☺️

I think featuring the tag on the homepage will also help to make people aware of changes and even breaking changes much faster.

[Muhimen]

I don't know what I need to do(😅), but COUNT ME IN! (🙋‍♂️)

[Joel Olawanle]

Wow, I'm interested in this!

[Sakshat]

This sounds interesting, I'd like to be a part of this :D