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some wording improvements and clarifications
e.g. note to remove "draft: true" line in your post, which Peter suggested (my first thought was to just remove that line from the header here, but i realized that would make this instructional "post" appear in the live blog)
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## How to Submit Your Blog Post
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Before starting a PR here, please share your blog post draft (eg as a Google Doc) with the OBF Board for comments.
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Once the Board has reviewed and approved it, please make a PR as described here.
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**Before** starting a PR here, please share your blog post draft (e.g. as a Google Doc) with the OBF Board for comments.
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Once the Board has reviewed and approved your draft post, please make a PR as described here.
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### 1. Create a GitHub Account (if needed)
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4. View template raw, and Copy and paste all the contents of this template into the new file.
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5. Replace the placeholder text (date, title, author, content, image name, etc.) with your actual blog content.
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6. Remove the `draft: true` line (we don't want the template published, we do want your post published).
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6. Remove the "draft: true" line from the header text
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7. The url you supply should be fairly short--e.g., 2026-08-05-Person-Name-Conference, not 2026-08-05-Person-Name-Learned-Three-Important-Things-at-Conference
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## Paste the Reviewed Content below and use the instructions to add images, URLs, etc
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## Paste the reviewed content below and use the instructions to add images, URLs, etc
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Delete the instructions above once you are ready to submit your blog post. Feel free to structure your content as you like, but here are some suggestions to get you started.
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# Your Blog Post (do not inlude this line or repeat the title here)
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# Your blog post (do not include this line or repeat the title here)
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**_The_** [**_Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program_**](/travel-awards) **_aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community. [FULL NAME],_** _**a [YOUR POSITION, e.g., MSc/PhD researcher] at**_ _**[YOUR INSTITUTION]**_, **_was awarded an OBF Event Fellowship to attend_** _**the**_ **_[EVENT NAME](EVENT URL)_**.
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