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[OSCTC-planning] Infrastructure changes

Shauna Gordon-McKeon shaunagm at gmail.com
Thu Dec 18 18:39:24 UTC 2014 

Britta,

How would you go about approaching a redesign of the home page?  Maybe
those who are interested could do a google hangout with you and you could
screenshare as you experiment with the layout, etc?  I know you've got a
process for playing with pages and I'd love to see it in action.  :)

- Shauna


On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:39 AM, Britta Gustafson <brittag at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I like the idea of organizing the homepage by "actions" like that! I think
> the homepage could fit a pretty good summary of OpenHatch's resources for
> all three.
>
> Britta
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Carol,
>>
>> I like that approach!  I've thought along those lines myself.  It seems
>> like we have three major audiences:
>>
>> - individuals who want to get involved in open source
>> - project maintainers or project members who want to involve their
>> projects by finding new contributors, becoming more welcoming,
>> participating in events
>> - open source community builders who want help running events, using our
>> tools, etc.
>>
>> Any given tool, product, or program can help all three.  A community
>> builder might be the first person to organize an OSCTC even but project
>> maintainers should know the program exists so they can participate in
>> events.  Same for individuals.
>>
>> What about a design that starts by asking whether you want to: (I dislike
>> the phrasing for all of these but it gets to my point)
>>
>> - Learn More About Open Source / Get Involved In Open Source
>> - Make Your Project More Welcoming
>> - Build A Community / Run an Event
>>
>> Which lead to further pages that link to individual
>> programs/tools/resources?  With perhaps the biggest projects - IRC channel,
>> opportunity finder, OSCTC, also linked on the main page but more
>> discretely, like in the top navbar.
>>
>> - Shauna
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Carol Willing <
>> willingc at willingconsulting.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hi Shauna and all,
>>>
>>> I'm not sure how to put this in words but I would love to see the
>>> infrastructure flow from the major missions of OpenHatch. Stepping back, I
>>> see two very valuable brands (OpenHatch and OSCTC) which could each stand
>>> on their own but are more valuable together.
>>>
>>> There has been huge growth over the past year and a half. Thanks to
>>> many, many people. What follows is more or less what I tell people when
>>> they ask what OpenHatch and/or OSCTC does:
>>>
>>>
>>> Outreach and education
>>> Open Source Comes to Campus <---> Open Source Comes to You (or your
>>> community)
>>>
>>> Welcoming, productive communities
>>>     Wealth of documentation
>>>     Welcome Bot
>>>     Profiles of projects/open source communities
>>>
>>> You
>>>     Missions - building skills
>>>     Finding a project
>>>     Getting help
>>>
>>>
>>> It would be really cool to highlight these major missions on the home
>>> page and make information and access from each of these valuable missions
>>> more accessible and easier to find/use/contribute.
>>>
>>> Carol
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 17/12/2014 04:56, Heidi Ellis wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hmmm, isn’t that what the homepage of openhatch.org is currently?
>>> When I go there, I see:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> As for the mission, we frequently send students to openhatch.org
>>> without mentioning OSCTC.  OpenHatch is a great place to give newbies ideas
>>> of how to get started. That seems to me to be the main mission of
>>> OpenHatch.   OpenHatch lets students see what others are doing and what can
>>> be done which is very helpful.  So making that transparent on the site
>>> seems to me to be a real help to the community. OSCTC is one effort that
>>> also supports getting started.  I also send students to hang out on the IRC
>>> channel.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Heidi
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* OSCTC-planning [
>>> mailto:osctc-planning-bounces at lists.openhatch.org
>>> <osctc-planning-bounces at lists.openhatch.org>] *On Behalf Of *Alex Bayley
>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 16, 2014 5:56 PM
>>> *To:* Planning for Open Source Comes to Campus
>>> *Subject:* Re: [OSCTC-planning] Infrastructure changes
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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>
>>> 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>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Surely newcomers would mostly land on openhatch.org?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> That's probably true.  Currently openhatch.org points towards
>>> 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> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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