On 09/17/2016 12:29 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
So, we could get rid of join.fp.o entirely (as in redirect it to
getfedora.org) and extend
getfedora.org to include an overview section
- - in the style mozilla does it:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/
Currently, getfedora serves to help people find the right Fedora
edition and download it, and little else. It has a "Join" link in the
*footer* which takes you to join.fp.o (which is an ugly data dumped
wiki page.)
Or we could get back
fedoraproject.org which would be more general like
the mozilla front page, and then link to
getfedora.org and so on?
I'm sure there are other options too - we need to pick the right one.
Apologies for seemingly being full of stop energy here, but we have a
very deliberate plan for the websites and the above quoted option is not
going to work.
getfedora.org is meant to be a 'brochure' style site focused
specifically on Fedora the OS. It's not meant to make the pitch to
contribution at all - was designed specifically to not.
Community resources are meant to be hosted at
fedoraproject.org.
Furthermore, the onboarding of new contributors is meant to be handled
through Fedora hubs. The idea behind Fedora hubs is that the work each
team is working on is clear & transparent so you can get a sense of what
a team is actually doing and what help they need (see the help widget
design
https://pagure.io/fedora-hubs/issue/98 ) to make the onboarding
process easier. This is something we've talked about and planned for 2
years to overhaul the joining process, see this for a start:
http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2015/03/25/summary-of-enabling-new-contributors...
I would really hate to see all of this careful consideration and
planning and development effort being disregarded!
So I think what might make the most sense is to build this as a Fedora
Hubs widget rather than Yet Another Website.
Is there anything I can do to help you understand Fedora Hubs better /
understand how such a feature would integrate with it / get involved
with the hubs team?
~m