Write for Opensource.com!

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Opensource.com invites submissions with a concrete pipeline: 2 million monthly readers, professional copy editing and SEO, and publishing via a Drupal CMS with editor-led promotion. Practical tooling includes Google Docs for collaboration and published style guides and an API style cheat sheet. Editorial policies: editors do not review projects as journalists; contributors club rewards appear at three+ articles per year and correspondence status at ten+. A downloadable GitHub repo supplies slides, a worksheet, and promotion tips.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:40Finding your story
3. 7:42Do your homework
4. 10:42Start with an outline
5. 12:44Article format
6. 16:30Pitch it
7. 18:48Promote
8. 20:19Writing
9. 22:31Github
10. 25:25Contributors Club Correspondence
11. 27:23Updating Articles
12. 28:42Open Source Projects
13. 29:55Drupal

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