Propose for StackExchange Community Promotion AD

[w32zhong]

Mathsteps is awesome, I personally believe its usefulness with regarding to its potential to change math education immensely.

To spread the world, it is time to take the chance and participate in the bid for StackExchange 2017 Community Promotion. The invitation post has just been posted for several hours, Mathsteps comes into my mind so I am here to ask if anyone wants to post a Mathsteps AD on that thread. People on Math StackExchange will get the opportunity to know Mathsteps if it is selected.

[evykassirer]

thank you so much for bringing this to attention!

I'll make an ad this weekend :)

[evykassirer]

draft:

[kevinbarabash]

Love the blueberries... but why blueberries?

[evykassirer]

I was thinking of making it part of the logo for mathsteps, because it has a lot of personal meaning to me in my internship at Socratic and in the birth of mathsteps

the math card on the Socratic app that shows step by step results is blueberry themed

also I brought demand for blueberry yogurt into the office at Socratic (the best flavour, now an office favourite) and on my last day of work became the blueberry queen

so I thought it'd be fun to add as the official symbol of mathsteps ^_^ and we're gonna print some stickers with the logo and mail 'em out to contributors soon!!

[w32zhong]

Looks great. But I do not know whether your background is considered as "partially white", if so, you need to surround it with a 2px border:

If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.

I am not 100% sure about this particular requirement, but adding a border ensures that your image will meet the requirement.

[evykassirer]

Thanks!

Hmm true... but I think that Geogebra's grey border is lighter than the blue edges of ours, so should be ok? I have a feeling"partially white" means that there's white on the edge somewhere, there needs to be a border

[w32zhong]

@evykassirer NP. Then go and post your AD soon such that mathsteps will have more time to attract votes.

I can also use my stackexchange account to post your AD, if you grand me to do so. Just ping me if you need me to post it.

Good luck!

[evykassirer]

I'd appreciate it you could post it @t-k-, as I don't use stack exchange and don't have the reputation - much appreciated!!

I was thinking of this:

[![mathsteps][1]][2]

   [1]: http://imgur.com/0AWckKY.png
   [2]: http://github.com/socraticorg/mathsteps

[w32zhong]

Sure thing. Yet when I paste your draft content, Stackexchange prompts me:

Community ads must have an image hosted at i.stack.imgur.com; use the image button from the editor to upload.

So it seems your http://imgur.com/0AWckKY.png URL is not acceptable. Try to use StackExchange editor button to upload the image instead.

Unfortunately, my working environment does not allow me to upload an image. If you want to post it soon, upload the image, get the required image URL and then ping me again.

[w32zhong]

Since I am at home now, I have posted your AD on StackExchange just now. So ignore my previous comment.

Please notice, I have also changed your http://github.com/socraticorg/mathsteps link to https://socratic.org/ because I assume most people on Math StackExchange are not familiar with GitHub. Ping me if you want to change it back.

[evykassirer]

thank you!

if they're not familiar with github, how are you hoping they'll use or contribute to it? are you hoping to advertise the app instead? maybe I should make a different ad if that's the goal

I think that linking to Socratic is confusing because there's not a clear link between the ad and the website (we don't mention mathsteps on the website)

[w32zhong]

The majority are not familiar with GitHub does not mean there is no hope to see people from Math StackExchange who know how to program to join the development. As you said, the primary goal is to advertise indeed.

Sorry that I changed the link not according to your wish. I am going to revert that link so that at least people will feel a sense of relevance. If you get an new AD image, ping me and I will change it.

But I do not consider it a big problem to link to your Github repo, after all, there is still potential to attract "developers on MSE" to contribute.

[w32zhong]

I know it is a little bit frustrating to see people's downvote, but my first attempt does not go well at first also. I believe if we leave a comment to ask what other users on MSE think about your AD and improve accordingly, it will eventually attract the desired number of votes. After all, mathsteps look quite promising overall.

[evykassirer]

I think aiming to attract mathy programmers is probably my goal (assuming they're a big enough portion of the math exchange audience)

Thanks :)

[evykassirer]

I need reputation to comment, but I'd appreciate if you could ask!

[w32zhong]

Sure thing.

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