Contribute your thoughts! please feel free to comment on this thread with additional suggestions or over on gitlab to address existing tasks.
Join the next meeting: this will be in 3 weeks where we will review progress and finalise the web developer briefing.
Comments in the next two weeks will feed into the brief for a web developer to start improving the website. You will note that we have quite a few tasks to generate on-boarding content and information about the community. If you could contribute please shout! Especially new people who would be willing to review the content and see if it would be helpful to them
Consider what areas of interest to highlight on the homepage that can link to forum categories and eventually compilations of GOSH community resources on those topics.
On-boarding material
Generate contentfor a get started section - lots of new information! People to contact, on-boarding, joining a local group, how to introduce yourself
Think about people who have a general interest and how to get them on-board
Welcome on-board text
Possibly following up with an on-boarding call
Produce a slide for people to add their presentations that explain GOSH community - what it is and the values. Should be very easy to use and understand!
Make a Twitter/Social Media post and image to share
For web dev project
Cleaner website layout (preferably with a top navigation bar)
Enable cross-posting blogs to medium/Discourse/Twitter
New application: have a listing for curated publications for open science hardware
Add a link to the history of GOSH -
Search Engine Optimisation
Gitlab
How to make it easier for people to find things they can controbute to?
Clean layout with big icons indicating the labels, and maybe a brief explanation of how the labels works, and a simple video of how to set configurations etc.
Detailed header post as per http://forum.reclone.org/ but better (this one appears on every page which is annoying).
Better on-boarding for non-English speaking participants
Integrate better with the GitLab Roadmap
Make the category dropdown search bar show the subcategories
Based on previous suggestions for the front page that received favourable comments on gitlab (thanks @jarancio), I inserted the new GOSH logo and stripped it right back to basics so we can start adding in more content as we go, based on requests from the community: http://openhardware.science/
This took about an hour and we can roll back any changes if needed.
If anyone would be willing to do some further work in thinking through the look and feel of the website such that someone who actually knows what they are doing can make it look much better, please join the next website meeting on 7 Nov - the link is in the first post in this thread.
Wow, looks great! I think that’s a massive improvement. I made some small CSS tweaks to it, mainly making some unnecessary grey borders disappear. Hope that’s alright.
I don’t know if the question goes here, but do you want me to create an item under About GOSH with the history of GOSH I wrote? It’s currently in a github repo.
It isn’t very easy with the current theme without installing yet another plugin, I would like to change the theme but first we need to update PHP and then update WordPress - @kaspar is on it! Then it should be easier to do a custom header for the front page. If anyone is good with css and willing to dig about in the current theme, they would be very welcome!
Menu item for GOSH History
Thanks @jarancio! I added it to the About dropdown under Appearance > Menus
SSL
@kaspar tried before and it was basically not possible to do. We are rethinking hosting and he was thinking about trying again so should be fixed in nearish term.
Discourse categories display
Both @jarancio and @julianstirling are forum admins so you can feel free to look at different options and see what you like best. I can;t find a reference list with screenshots on the Discourse forum. For the front page you can find the options in Settings > Basic Setup > desktop category page style
For each category, we can display subcategories as rows or boxes with featured topics, I changed the Communities category view as an example and for your feedback http://forum.openhardware.science/c/communities/9
So for example we could just display the top-level categories on front of site if you preferred and then have a subcategory page.
With plugins and some time, you can make things look a lot better, here is a good example https://thepavilion.io/
No big problem, just thought possibly the date was wrong.
Doing any sort of upgrade seems to require updating/fixing the borked Ubuntu installation. I will update everything while migrating to the GOSH DO server instead.
Please find a draft of the RFP for web development below, based on outcomes from the earlier web meeting and the forum discussions, as documented on gitlab.
It would be great to get your feedback and comments, please submit by Thu 19 Nov and then we will circulate to developers for quotes. This work is supported by our grant from the Alfred P Sloan Foundation so we’re very grateful to them for enabling it to proceed and improve our online community resources!
