{"id":1266,"date":"2012-01-02T09:57:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T09:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2012-01-02T09:57:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T09:57:06","slug":"year-design-writers-resources-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2012\/01\/year-design-writers-resources-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year, New Design, New Writers, and New Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"2012 is here, and The Rude Baguette is changing with the times! We launched The Rude Baguette on Halloween hoping to bring together some of the English bloggers in France to one place. We had this idea in our head that the people who were interested in knowing what was going on in France were not just French-speaking people, and that French startups did not just want French-language press – so far, it seems we’ve been right. In the first 2 months we averaged 15,000 page views per month, wrote 60 articles between 3 writers (and a few guest posts), and we have 3 unsolicited articles\u00a0written\u00a0<\/a>about us. In fact, all over Europe, English-language\u00a0blogs<\/a>\u00a0have begun popping up or growing larger in the past year.
\nAfter the initial launch, there were some bumps and bruises… because we always launch too soon! Some of us had to learn how to code PHP just to make the site overhaul possible, and we got some amazing sysadmin help from\u00a0@WesselKooyman\u00a0<\/a>from\u00a0Cole Street<\/a>, a development firm based in Paris.\u00a0We spent all Christmas break redesigning the layout of the site, and we’re proud to start unveiling some of the new features we’re bringing you in 2012:<\/p>\n

The Rude Calendar<\/span>\u00a0“one-stop startup events calendar”<\/em><\/h1>\n

I think\u00a0XKCD\u00a0<\/a>hit the nail on their head when they talked about how trying to create a one-stop resource that compiles N other sources into one only creates N+1 sources for the information, none of which are complete – despite that, we’ve decided to create\u00a0our<\/em>\u00a0Rude Calendar. There may be events that slip through the cracks, there may be events we just\u00a0don’t<\/em>\u00a0put up, but we think we’ll have the essential – because we’re at\u00a0these<\/em>\u00a0events. In addition to your recurring\u00a0Meetups\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Startup Weekends\u00a0<\/strong>going on in France, The Events Calendar brings you the premium\u00a0Conferences\u00a0<\/strong>with occasional discounted ticket prices (keep your eyes peeled for the first one coming in the next few weeks), letting you know where you can get tickets, what the events are about, and the primary language of the event. We accept submissions for events\u00a0by email<\/a>\u00a0and we’ll have a form below the calendar as soon as we learn how to code PHP better.
\nOne of my personal favorite parts of this calendar is our ability to\u00a0seamlessly\u00a0integrate our events announcements across the site. You’ll notice we’ve got a list\u00a0AND<\/em>\u00a0a calendar of upcoming events on the right sidebar – we’re still deciding which one we like best, so let us know what you think in our new\u00a0Facebook\u00a0comments<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0section below. We’ll also bring you related events based on the topic of the articles: for example, if we’re talking about companies that launched at Startup Weekend, we might bring you upcoming\u00a0Startup Weekend events:
\n[events_list category=”2″]<\/p>\n

The Rude Job Board<\/span>\u00a0“<\/strong>for Rude Startups and Startupers”<\/em><\/h1>\n

In the next month we will be launching two other services, the first of which is\u00a0yet another<\/em>\u00a0job board. Our theory with this job board is the same as with the blog, that French startups don’t just want French speaking talent, they want global talent. Our Job Board will allow anyone to see which startups in France are globally minded and looking for the best\u00a0global\u00a0<\/em>talent – great startups are\u00a0always<\/em>\u00a0hiring, and hiring startups are\u00a0always<\/em>\u00a0great! Much like the events calendar, the job board will have its own dedicated section of the site as well as integration into the sidebar and related posts.
\nIn order to attract serious job offers only without significantly adjusting a startup’s burn rate, we will initially be charging \u20ac10 per post, which will stay up for two weeks – this will keep the Craiglist Nigerian Princes at bay while still allowing serious startupers to find co-founders & employees for their next big project. If you’ve got a startup that’s hiring,\u00a0get in contact with us<\/a>\u00a0now in order to get\u00a050%<\/strong>\u00a0off<\/strong>\u00a0for posting on the launch date!<\/p>\n

The Rude Store<\/span>\u00a0“funding with a twist”<\/em><\/h1>\n

<\/em>\u00a0In addition to the Job Board, we will also be launching a Rude Store in the next month or so. For our part, we will be offering some\u00a0sweet<\/em>\u00a0merchandise in order to show your support for the Paris startup scene – sometimes it will be stuff we design, like\u00a0RUDE startup<\/em>\u00a0t-shirts, and sometimes it will be merchandise for other startups. In this day and age, it’s easy to say you’re an “early adopter,” but a\u00a0real<\/em>\u00a0early adopter sports a t-shirt of their favorite startup, supporting that company financially and morally.
\nAgain, as above: dedicated page as well as sexy integration across the site.<\/p>\n

The Rude Newsletter<\/span>\u00a0“a peek into the French Startup Scene”<\/em><\/h1>\n

By now, you may have heard us pushing readers to sign up for our Rude Newsletter (By the way, you can\u00a0easily<\/em>\u00a0drop your name and email on the right of this article and never even leave the page!<\/strong>). It seems that Newsletters are all the rage in 2012 for European startupers, as both\u00a0The Kernel<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Max Niederhofer\u00a0have recently begun accepting signups for their European startup newsletters. With the new tools we’re adding, the site is no longer\u00a0just<\/em>\u00a0a blog (don’t get me wrong, we’ll be blogging like crazy. In fact we’re still\u00a0looking for more Rude Writers, so don’t hesitate to drop us a test article if you think you’ve got what it takes). As the site grows, blog posts will no longer be the only means of keeping up with the French Startup Scene, and so we’ve created the Rude Newsletter.
\nCombining all sections of the site, we’ll bring the best articles of the week (but not\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0the articles), we’ll bring you the best upcoming events, the best new job postings, and we’ll bring you those news tidbits that don’t merit an article written around a quote: Mark Zuckerberg said something crazy in the news? We won’t waste your time trying to write 300 words around the quote, we’ll just drop it to you with a link in the Newsletter. We’ll let you know who got bought, who bought who, who raised money, and who’s closed up shop –\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0in the Rude Newsletter.
\nThe Rude Newsletter is great for hardcore startupers from any country who want to keep feelers on what’s going on in France, but it’s also a great way for those who are casually interested to start getting a feel for\u00a0what’s going on in France.<\/p>\n

More to come, so don’t change that channel…<\/h1>\n

The Rude Baguette started off as a great project, but it has become something bigger. If you’ve talked to me (Liam) at all in the past few months, you know how I feel about the site and about the French startup scene – it’s packed full of energy. We here at The Rude Baguette believe 2012 will be\u00a0the year of the RUDE<\/strong>, and we want to be there to document it as it happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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