blogpost

README.md

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 Blog posts can be added by creating a new text file in the `posts/<current year>` directory.
 The filename must use the following naming convention `YEAR-MONTH-DAY-title.{ext}` and be written in one of the following formats:
 
-- [RST](https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/rest.html) formatted text, `ext=rst`,
-- [Jupyter notebook](https://jupyter.org/), `ext=ipynb`; (notebooks are converted to RST using the [nbsphinx](https://nbsphinx.readthedocs.io) extension)
-- [MD](https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/) formatted text, `ext=md`,
+- [ReStructuredText (RST)](https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/rest.html) formatted text, `ext=rst`,
+- [Jupyter Notebook (NB)](https://jupyter.org/), `ext=ipynb`; (notebooks are converted to RST using the [nbsphinx](https://nbsphinx.readthedocs.io) extension)
+- [Markdown (MD)](https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/) formatted text, `ext=md`,
 
 Please also see the [ABlog documentation](https://ablog.readthedocs.io/) for more information.
 
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 You might have to open the notebook in a text editor and change the "metadata" for the post cell to include the following
 
-```
+```json
    "metadata": {
     "raw_mimetype": "text/restructuredtext"
    },
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 If you write your post in markdown formatted text, each file must contain the following header for Sphinx via [Ablog](https://github.com/sunpy/ablog) to parse the post properly:
 
-```
+```markdown
 ---
 blogpost: true
 date: <Date>
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 ---
 
 # <Title>
-
 ```
 
 ### Metadata

posts/2024/2024-01-24-pyopensci.md

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+---
+blogpost: true
+date: Jan 24 2024
+author: Nabil Freij
+category: Update
+---
+
+# pyOpenSci and `sunpy`
+
+![pyOpenSci logo](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/28938222?s=200&v=4)
+
+[pyOpenSci](https://www.pyopensci.org/) is a "diverse community of people interested in building a community of practice around scientific software written in Python".
+They are working on improving the information around the packaging and tooling used by the larger community as well to provide support for package maintainers.
+There is a review process to become a pyOpenSci accepted package which comes with two extensive reviews from independent members of the wider community.
+
+With this in mind, the SunPy Project decided to submit `sunpy` to pyOpenSci to ensure that it is aligned with the broader Python community that pyOpenSci is building.
+As one of the The Project's core aim is to ensure that we are not isolated from this wider community.
+
+[The review](https://github.com/pyOpenSci/software-submission/issues/147) was started on the [pyOpenSci software-submission repository](https://github.com/pyOpenSci/software-submission).
+The entire review process is open, with one editor and two reviewers and the entire exchange between the `sunpy` maintainers and them is on that issue.
+This process was incredibly helpful as it pointed some miscommunication within our documentation and some choices that were made several years ago but now were redundant or not best practice.
+
+After these issues were fixed, `sunpy` was accepted into pyOpenSci and we added the badge to the `sunpy` readme.
+The plan in future is to submit more SunPy Project packages as well as integrate more closely with pyOpenSci to replace our own affiliated package system.
+These are still work in progress and will be announced here in due course.