Microbit Playground Authors

You are welcome to add your name to this database if you write an article or blog post for microbit playground.

The Database

The author.yml is a database of each contributor to the microbit playground website.

Each author looks like this:

jez:
  name: Jez Dean
  attribution: Teacher
  description: "I'm a teacher from the UK keen on using technology in my lessons."
  twitter: jezmr
  github: jezdean
  facebook-id:
  website: "https://microbit-playground.co.uk/"

In this example, the element is the author name jez. It is used in the front matter of the .md files which make up the articles and the blog posts.

If adding a new author, replace this with a one word name. The elements are as follows:

name:

Your name; real is preferred.

Used to identify you as an author in rich text markup and on facebook's opengraph.

attribution:

Job or similiar title, eg: 'Tech Junkie', 'Geek' etc.

Optional

description:

One or two paragraph description about who you are and what you do.

twitter:

Your twitter handle (if any) without the @.

When the article is shared, it will link to your twitter handle.

github:

Github id. Not used for anything yet.

facebook-id:

The id of your main facebook account. Eventually sharing cards on facebook will link to your profile page.

Photo

100x100px PNG photo in /author-image/ directory.

Notes

Many of these are not used yet and may never be used!