Add Blog references + Landing styles

.devcontainer/Dockerfile

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 FROM python:3.10.4-slim-buster
 
-RUN apt-get update
+RUN apt-get clean all && apt-get update
 RUN apt-get install -y libsass-dev build-essential libcairo2 git libpango-1.0-0 libpangoft2-1.0-0 pangocairo-1.0 pngquant
 
 COPY requirements.txt /build/requirements.txt

docs/community/participate.md

@@ -1,7 +1,25 @@
-# GradleUp Community Channels
+---
+title: Participate in GradleUp
+description: >
+    Subscribe to the GradleUp news,
+    join the discussions on Slack and GitHub issues 
+---
 
 [![Slack: GradleUp on the Gradle Community Slack](https://img.shields.io/badge/Slack-%23gradleup-brightgreen?style=flat&logo=slack)](./#slack)
 
+Subscribe to the GradleUp news, join the discussions on Slack and GitHub issues.
+All code and non-code contributions are welcome!
+
+## News
+
+We have a blog on [blog.gradleup.com](https://blog.gradleup.com/).
+There we will be publishing the key updates on what's up in GradleUp.
+You can also subscribe to the blog as a [newsletter](https://blog.gradleup.com/newsletter)
+or [RSS feed](https://blog.gradleup.com/rss.xml).
+
+Guest posts by GradleUp users and component maintainers are welcome, too!
+Reach out to us on Slack if interested
+
 ## GitHub Issues
 
 Each project repository has GitHub Issues enabled.

mkdocs.yml

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ nav:
     - Contributing to the Website: ./CONTRIBUTING.md
     - Governance: docs/community/governance.md
     - Code of Conduct: org/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
+  - Blog: https://blog.gradleup.com/
   - Resources:
     - Community Support: org/SUPPORT.md
     - Security Policy: org/SECURITY.md
@@ -176,6 +177,13 @@ extra:
     - icon: fontawesome/brands/slack
       link: https://gradleup.com/docs/community/participate/#slack
       name: Slack
+    - icon: /fontawesome/solid/blog
+      link: https://blog.gradleup.com
+      name: Blog
+    - icon: /fontawesome/solid/rss
+      link: https://blog.gradleup.com/rss.xml
+      name: Blog - RSS
+
 #  analytics:
 #    provider: google
 #    property: TODO

overrides/home.html

@@ -55,6 +55,12 @@
 
     .mdx-hero__buttons {
       margin-bottom: 20px;
+
+    }
+
+    .md-button {
+      margin-left: 5px;
+      margin-right: 5px;
     }
 
     .mdx-container {
@@ -69,6 +75,12 @@
         text-align:center;
       }
     }
+
+    [data-md-color-scheme="slate"] {
+      .md-button {
+        color: #f8f8f8;
+      }
+    }
   </style>
 
   <section class="mdx-container">
@@ -85,6 +97,9 @@ <h1>GradleUp</h1>
           <a href="{{ 'projects/' | url }}" title="Our Projects" class="md-button md-button--primary">
             Our Projects
           </a>
+          <a href="https://blog.gradleup.com/" target="_blank" title="Blog" class="md-button">
+            Blog
+          </a>
           <a href="{{ 'docs/community/participate/' | url }}" title="Participate" class="md-button">
             Contributing
           </a>