gtn_news_create_post.md

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title: Creating a GTN News post
area: contributors
layout: faq
box_type: tip
contributors: [shiltemann]

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If you have created a new tutorial, running an event, published a paper around training, or have anything else interesting to share with the GTN community, we encourage you to write a News item about it!

News items will show up on the [GTN homepage]({% link index.md %}) and in the [GTN news feed]({% link news.md %}).

Creating the news post: The Easy Way

Fill out this Google Form. Every day our bot will import the news posts submitted via this Google Form, and we will process them, perhaps requesting small changes, so we recommend that you have a GitHub account already.

For Advanced Users

Have a look at the existing news items in the news/_posts/ folder of the GTN repository for some examples.

A news post is a markdown file that looks as follows:

---
layout: news

title: "New Tutorial: My tutorial title"
tags:
  - new tutorial
  - transcriptomics
contributors:
  - shiltemann
  - hexylena

tutorial: "topics/introduction/tutorials/data-manipulation-olympics/tutorial.html"
cover: "path/to/cover-image.jpg"  # usually an image from your tutorial
coveralt: "description of the cover image"

---

A bit of text containing your news, this is all markdown formatted,
so you can do **bold** and *italic* text like this, and links look
like [this](https://example.com) etc.

Describe everything you want to convey here, can be as long as you
need.

Make sure the filename is structured as follows: year-month-day-title.md, so for example: 2022-10-28-my-new-tutorial.md