Considering PR #1, we should mitigate any deployment woes with automated testing of the most recent versions of Gems.

This is also a good place to test:

• HTML5 validity
• CSS validity
• Microformats validity

Our permalinks are currently inconsistent. We should change them, and generate HTTP 301 redirects to avoid breaking old links. There is a plugin for doing this.

• Write our first news post
• Link to our Twitter
• Link to Awesome Cornell
• Liquid filter for dates (supporting timezones)
• Liquid filter or Markdown plugin for blockquote citations (for convenience)

README: just explain what this is

LICENSE: some sort of Creative Commons, I assume

Are we keeping branch history? I tend not to in my projects unless there's something very important and long running. GH doesn't natively support such a workflow.

On my own site, I'm considering putting it directly in git. Should we try to offload it to webmention.io or something, or can we put it in our git repo?

I dislike time & date handling.

I notice you feature GSoC and Rails Girls, you might also consider featuring outreachy: https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy

Unlike GSoC, there is no requirement to be a student, but of course students are welcome to apply.