ENH: Add fix to blog post, add docs on how to write a blog post (#1299)

* remove old list of colormaps

* add docs about blog post contributions

doc/source/blog_posts/2022/TRACER.ipynb

@@ -1388,6 +1388,8 @@
   }
  ],
  "metadata": {
+  "author": "Bobby Jackson",
+  "date": "2022-10-21",
   "kernelspec": {
    "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)",
    "language": "python",
@@ -1404,7 +1406,9 @@
    "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
    "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
    "version": "3.10.6"
-  }
+   },
+   "tags": "TRACER,cloud,aerosol,radar",
+   "title": "Blending Observations from TRACER using Py-ART"
  },
  "nbformat": 4,
  "nbformat_minor": 5

doc/source/blog_posts/blog-post-template.ipynb

@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+{
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "45cfb472-b815-4435-a25b-31da424d2344",
+   "metadata": {
+    "tags": []
+   },
+   "source": [
+    "# Blog Post Template\n",
+    "\n",
+    "This is a template to use for blog posts! Make sure to copy this, and paste into one of the year directories (ex. `2022`).\n",
+    "\n",
+    "**Make sure to edit the tags for this by opening this notebook with a text editor, and editing the last section that looks like this**\n",
+    "\n",
+    "You need to edit the \n",
+    "- [ ] Author\n",
+    "- [ ] Date\n",
+    "- [ ] Tags\n",
+    "- [ ] Title\n",
+    "\n",
+    "```\n",
+    " \"metadata\": {\n",
+    "  \"author\": \"YOUR NAME HERE\",\n",
+    "  \"date\": \"YYYY-MM-DD\",\n",
+    "  \"kernelspec\": {\n",
+    "   \"display_name\": \"Python 3 (ipykernel)\",\n",
+    "   \"language\": \"python\",\n",
+    "   \"name\": \"python3\"\n",
+    "  },\n",
+    "  \"language_info\": {\n",
+    "   \"codemirror_mode\": {\n",
+    "    \"name\": \"ipython\",\n",
+    "    \"version\": 3\n",
+    "   },\n",
+    "   \"file_extension\": \".py\",\n",
+    "   \"mimetype\": \"text/x-python\",\n",
+    "   \"name\": \"python\",\n",
+    "   \"nbconvert_exporter\": \"python\",\n",
+    "   \"pygments_lexer\": \"ipython3\",\n",
+    "   \"version\": \"3.9.12\"\n",
+    "  },\n",
+    "  \"tags\": \"list,of,tags\",\n",
+    "  \"title\": \"INSERT TITLE HERE\"\n",
+    " },\n",
+    " \"nbformat\": 4,\n",
+    " \"nbformat_minor\": 5\n",
+    "}\n",
+    "```"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "46e488d6-b188-4678-882d-658b52e8d687",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## Motivation\n",
+    "\n",
+    "Write about the motivation for this post here. Provide background information, and why the reader should care."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "c43c1f1d-9a07-45fb-aa17-01d569da531c",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## The Problem\n",
+    "\n",
+    "Define the problem - show errors, what the issue is you are trying to solve."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "35e16154-8b95-4696-9ac3-e73fe637e293",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## The Solution\n",
+    "Include a walk through of the solution, with some sort of final figure or notable insight!"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "02b669b8-48eb-46e3-8688-f30db62f905d",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## Conclusions\n",
+    "\n",
+    "Sum up your conclusions here."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "1c1ea1d9-3a03-420a-8ac7-1e405ab869e6",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": []
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "author": "YOUR NAME HERE",
+  "date": "YYYY-MM-DD",
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)",
+   "language": "python",
+   "name": "python3"
+  },
+  "language_info": {
+   "codemirror_mode": {
+    "name": "ipython",
+    "version": 3
+   },
+   "file_extension": ".py",
+   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
+   "name": "python",
+   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
+   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
+   "version": "3.10.6"
+  },
+  "tags": "list,of,tags",
+  "title": "INSERT TITLE HERE"
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 5
+}

doc/source/userguide/contributors_guide.rst

@@ -417,3 +417,12 @@ Appveyor and TravisCI will determine if the code past all checks. If the
 code fails either tests, as the pull request sits, make changes to fix the
 code and when pushed to GitHub, the pull request will automatically update
 and TravisCI and Appveyor will automatically rerun.
+
+Blog Posts
+----------
+
+You can also contribute by adding blog posts. To get started with
+blog posts, check out the blog post notebook template in the
+`doc/source/blog_posts/` directory. Move the blog post to a
+directory with the corresponding year (ex. `2022`), and follow the
+contribution process outlined above.