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== First in class issue ==

To update contact information

As you'll see, there are tons of examples that use 'foo' and 'bar' as example names of things. What's the deal with that?

Example:

def foo(bar):
  print "The argument you passed this function is: ", bar

The site has a pretty standard main.css file. I'm offering a tiny bit of extra credit to the student(s) who create an alternate version of the file that substantially changes the site's appearance. You can also change other aspects of the layout, etc as needed.

Open a pull request with the changes, and include screenshots of them. Discuss them with your peers. Who knows- some of the changes may get accepted into the site, forever changing its appearance!

A little history and bio would be informative.

This is an example issue, linked to the milestone 'All students have updated their profile information'. When this issue gets closed, that milestone will have its progress tracker updated.

Several different ways to run with this one:

• technical
• historical
• anthropologial

We should be able to embed a twitter feed, displaying a stream of #silshack tweets.

For extra, extra credit, put the hashtag into a _config.yml variable like {{ site.hashtag }} so this becomes modular for other courses.

Aside: Extensive Twitter/social integration into Prof. Jekyll might be close to a project-scale project. See me if this interests you.

Website typo

Gravatar is what Github, Wordpress, and plenty of other sites use for your little picture. Our site has a spot for everyone to enter their gravatar number in _config.yml but isn't currently doing anything with it.

There are several areas in which it'd be great to support Gravatars on our site:

• In posts themselves (medium small icons next to where it lists their name)
• In the people page (slightly bigger photos of people)
• on the homepage (little icons maybe)

A little bit of extra credit is up for grabs for pull requests that successfully implement these. And, as always, the best contributions will get merged :)

🍔

Also, why do you think we might be using python 2.7 instead of 3.x?

The site has no Favicon, which is amateur looking. Tiny amount of extra credit for pull requests with functioning favicons.