eclipse_newsletter/2013/february/README.txt

CONTENTS OF THIS FILE
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 * About Mailchimp
 * About Eclipse Newsletter Template
 * Using the Eclipse Newsletter Starterkit

ABOUT MAILCHIMP
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MailChimp makes it easy to design exceptional email campaigns, 
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You'll love mixing and matching MailChimp's templates, 
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http://mailchimp.com/about/

ABOUT ECLIPSE NEWSLETTER TEMPLATE
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The Eclipse Newsletter is for Eclipse users who would like to 
stay up to date with everything Eclipse related. 

USING THE ECLIPSE NEWSLETTER STARTERKIT
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Each month you will need to publish a new issue of the newsletter.

1-First copy the starterkit folder located at 
http://eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/starterkit/

2-Paste this folder in %CURRENT YEAR% folder. Eclipse Newsletter 
folder structure is based off the current date. For example 
the first issue of the newsletter was sent February 2013.

The starterkit needs to be pasted here :
http://eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/

3- Rename the starter kit folder to the current issue month, 
for this example, the starterkit folder should be renamed to
February.
http://eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/february/

4- Make the necessary changes to the text in the settings.php file. 
All new images should be located inside the images folder in the 
current issue folder. For example:
http://eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/february/images/logo.jpg

IMPORTANT: You need to specify the full url for links and images otherwise they won't 
show inside the user's mail client.

5- Create each page for each article, please make sure that you link to the original 
article and additionally use this meta tag: <link rel="canonical" href="http://the article url" />
This should be done for you automaticaly if you set the $original_url variable 
but please make sure it's there!

6- Once you are done editing the newsletter, commit the newsletter,
wait until the code is propagated to the server and run build.php.
For example: http://eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/february/build.php

9- Copy the source code of build.php (Right Click + View Page Source) and paste it
in the index.html file. Please remember to commit index.html. 
You will also need to paste the output in mailchimp.

9- Send out the newsletter to Eclipse Foundation testing list for testing.
Make sure to test all links and images.

10- If all goes well you are ready to set your Newsletter free into the wilderness!