[OSCTC-planning] Infrastructure changes

[Alex Bayley]

OK, so it seems to me like you could make the homepage of openhatch.org 
be mostly an OSCTC landing page, with links to the other stuff as 
subsidiary pages.

A.

On 17/12/2014 9:52 am, Shauna Gordon-McKeon wrote:
> There's the IRC channel, the training missions, the opportunity 
> finder, and occasional non-OSCTC in person events like sprints.  There 
> are a couple of projects that I've done as well that are used by OSCTC 
> but not exclusively, such as the In-Person Event Handbook 
> (http://opensource-events.com/), WelcomeBot 
> (https://github.com/shaunagm/WelcomeBot) and Merge Stories 
> (http://mergestories.com/). OSCTC is the highest priority OpenHatch 
> project but the others are still quite valuable.
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Alex Bayley <skud at growstuff.org 
> <mailto:skud at growstuff.org>> wrote:
>
>     Actually, can I just ask... what does OpenHatch do that *isn't*
>     OSCTC?  And what is its relative priority/importance, relative to
>     OSCTC?
>
>     A.
>
>
>     On 17/12/2014 9:44 am, Shauna Gordon-McKeon wrote:
>>
>>
>>     On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Alex Bayley <skud at growstuff.org
>>     <mailto:skud at growstuff.org>> wrote:
>>
>>         Surely newcomers would mostly land on openhatch.org
>>         <http://openhatch.org>?
>>
>>
>>     That's probably true.  Currently openhatch.org
>>     <http://openhatch.org> points towards campus.openhatch.org
>>     <http://campus.openhatch.org>, which is actually a pretty bad
>>     place for it to link, information-wise, in that it's aimed
>>     entirely at organizers (not attendees, maintainers, or
>>     non-organizer volunteers) and is possibly the spot, of all those
>>     listed, that has the most restricted access.
>>
>>     Sheila, can you elaborate on "Have a friendly landing page that
>>     is generated from readme?"
>>
>>
>>
>>         A.
>>
>>
>>         On 17/12/2014 8:07 am, sheila miguez wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>         On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon
>>>         <shaunagm at gmail.com <mailto:shaunagm at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>             Hi all,
>>>
>>>             I'm hoping to make a bunch of infrastructure changes
>>>             over the next week or two. Asheesh and I started
>>>             brainstorming on an etherpad here:
>>>             https://etherpad.mozilla.org/openhatch-infrastructure
>>>             [...]
>>>
>>>             With regard to A: perhaps the place to start is with a
>>>             canonical place that everything points to (and that
>>>             points to everything else) that newcomers can be pointed
>>>             to.  Have folks seen this done before/do you have
>>>             intuitions about the best place to put this?  In the
>>>             Github readme, perhaps?
>>>
>>>
>>>         Have a friendly landing page that is generated from readme?
>>>
>>>           * For people who find you via github, they won't have to
>>>             dig around to figure out the url to the content, it will
>>>             be in the readme.
>>>           * For people who do not know about github, they will have
>>>             easy access to the content (and can find the repo from it).
>>>           * The brand is not github.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         -- 
>>>         shekay at pobox.com <mailto:shekay at pobox.com>
>>>
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>>         -- 
>>         Alex "Skud" Bayley
>>         skud at growstuff.org  <mailto:skud at growstuff.org>
>>         http://growstuff.org/
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