Wombot Blogging history

So it began with a planning session in the shed…

We did all our first planning session for WomBot in the Garden Shed. That’s not a shed, that’s a pub called the Garden Shed which is super convenient for us.

The discussion went far and wide over possible bots we could build, names for those bots, designs for those bots and well anything bot related. But we knew one thing. We were going to make a bot and it was going to have… a name.

Then we thought a bit about collaborating:

“Quickly choosing what tools you want to use to collaborate with each other is important. Luckily, the first hurdle, chat, was already taken care of. HackWimbledon already uses slack to keep folks talking so making a channel there for the WomBot project was not an issue.

Next up was exchanging files. Well, that choice was pretty simple too. Again HackWimbledon already had a GitHub repository and so we created a team and a repository for the WomBot in there too. Teams on GitHub are neat, they let you have conversations about projects which are attached to the team, not to any particular repository.

Which was good, because pretty soon we’d be needing another repo for websites and other bits.”

So I thought I’d try making a blog the, well, hard way. Its first post was this:

“So as an experiment, we’ve created this blog. We’re using Hugo as a static site generator and Github’s Pages to publish what Hugo produces. The instructions came from the Hugo site and seem to work ok, though git skills are to the fore if you go the gh-pages route.”

And then we got together again at HackWimbledon and agreed we’d make this all a nice, easy to use Medium site. So the Github Hugo Pages site is gone and this page memorialises its brief existence. And here ends the tale of the short lived other blog. Enjoy Wombot Blogging on Medium.