Hey I'm starting on adding a matrix guide to the community section on getmonero.org

just had a few questions

So correct me if I'm wrong, but the index.md file uses syntax like : {% t team.core %} to connect to the information in the .yml file (monero-site/_i18n/en.yml) file, so I would have to provide all of my written information in the .yml file, and link to it using the "{% %} " syntax

Also, should the matrix guide be located in the community/hangouts file?

Be prepated to wait till someone who knows is around and answers. Might take a while.

No rush, just wanted to contribute to open source and this was the first project on the list.

Talked to a few people in the monero-dev channel and they pointed me here

just going to try to figure it out myself and clone the repo, play around with it in localhost

If it's your first time, then welcome :D and one word of warning: one of the big differences between corporate and free software/open source is that in the latter, people usually contribute when they want to.

Just saying before you get frustrated in case you didn't realize this. Some people seem to find this a hard shift to get used to.

Yeah I understand, most of the people contributing have full time jobs and don't have the time to make all of their time available for open source

thank you ! so far the community has been awesome and very helpful

The good thing is, you can also contribute whatever and however much you want to and stop when you want to :D

Yeah I think it's awesome, you get the experience of working on a team with version-control in place, but it's more laid back and no deadlines

Do you work full time as a software dev moneromooo

there is a matrix guide already (currently an open PR) deploy-preview-1962--barolo-time-75…user-guides/join-monero-matrix.html

Yeah someone posted a monero.space link in the open issue.  Are you saying that someone already made a pull request to add it to the main site?

yep its pull #1962

shit

okay time to start over lmfao

maybe you could review it? what if your guide would be better? :)

who takes care of merging and closing issues? I see a ton of issues that seem to have been resolved but the issue is still open

It seems decent enough, don't want to redo it and waste the time spent on it by the person that started the PR

I used to. I still owe the monero community some work, but I burned out and I'm very very slow going through it.

I'm getting better though, I've started working on my game again, so I might step up to monero work again.

Yeah I feel you. I started a company about 2 years ago and quit my full time job in the trades. I'm very thankful for being able to quit the dangerous job I had, but it's been so mentally taxing and I've definitely burnt out.

I sold it about 2 months ago, and decided to work on some open source to pad my resume and get some more dev experience before applying to some other companies