---
title: "Contributing articles"
editor_options:
  markdown:
    wrap: 72
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE)
```

We very much appreciate contributions to the Posit AI Blog from the
broader R community. If you are interested in publishing some of your
own work or insights, we'd love to hear from you!

Articles posted on the Posit AI Blog are authored using [Distill for R
Markdown](https://rstudio.github.io/distill). The easiest way to
contribute a new article is as follows:

1.  Create a fork of the [Posit AI blog
    repository](https://github.com/rstudio/ai-blog) on GitHub.

2.  In your fork, create a new branch that will contain your [distill
    article](https://rstudio.github.io/distill). When you're done,
    please check in the raw `Rmd` plus any static files you might have added to the
    post's source directory. Don't check in any generated files, such as html.

3.  Be sure that you've included all required [article metadata] (see
    below for details).

4.  [Post an issue](https://github.com/rstudio/ai-blog/issues) on the
    Posit AI Blog repo requesting that we accept your article (be sure
    to include a link back to your article's GitHub repo!).

Once we see your issue we'll take a look at your article, suggest
changes as necessary, then publish it when it's ready.

### Article metadata

To be included in the blog, your article should include some standard
metadata fields. Here's an example of a post that includes all required
metadata:

``` {.markup}
---
title: "Classifying physical activity from smartphone data with Keras"
description: |
  Using Keras to train a convolutional neural network to classify physical
  activity. The dataset was built from the recordings of 30 subjects
  performing basic activities and postural transitions while carrying a
  waist-mounted smartphone with embedded inertial sensors.
author:
  - name: Nick Strayer
    url: http://nickstrayer.me
    affiliation: Vanderbilt University
    affiliation_url: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistics-graduate/
date: 07-17-2018
creative_commons: CC BY
repository_url: https://github.com/nstrayer/activity_detection_post
output:
  distill::distill_article:
    self_contained: false
---
```

Note that the `author` field includes a URL for the author as well as
their affiliation (you can include multiple authors). Note also the
`creative_commons` field which marks the article as being share-able
(all contributed posts must have a [Creative
Commons](https://creativecommons.org/) license). Finally, the
`repository_url` is used to provide links from the article back to
GitHub.

### Article preview

Please note after submitting a PR for this repository, GitHub workflow will
start building a preview version of Posit AI blog that includes your article.
Once this build completes, a directory named 'ai-blog-preview' will be uploaded
in a zip file as the build artifact. If you would like to browse this preview
version locally, please follow the steps in
[Downloading workflow artifacts](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/managing-workflow-runs/downloading-workflow-artifacts)
to download ai-blog-preview.zip, unzip it, and open ai-blog-preview/index.html
in your browser. You should then be able to see your article on the landing page
of the preview.