Press tab

[Barbanio]

Hello, @alejandrolmiguel and I thought it would be a good idea to have a press tab on the website to facilitate contact with the press. The information we would like to have in the press tab would be:

• Access to the blog
• Compilation of news (link to publications, events, our own announcements that we want to highlight, 2 or 3)
• Press releases (2 or 3 latest)
• Summary
• The press kit
• Contact (Mail)

What do you think? Thanks in advance :)

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[derberg]

@Barbanio makes sense! just do not know what you mean by Access to the blog

[Barbanio]

Sorry, I mean that you can access directly from that tab to the blog, with a link or section that takes you to the blog when you click on it. Do you understand me now?

[derberg]

so blog in the top navigation is not enough you mean?

[Barbanio]

Yes, this would simply be a button that takes journalists directly to the blog. The idea is to make it easier to access the information most relevant to them in one tab.

[derberg]

Makes sense 👍🏼

[derberg]

@Barbanio what is press kit?

I saw that on few press pages people put project icons so they are easier to access, like all bringing related

[Barbanio]

@derberg Yes, it's very common for any company, enterprise, or project to have a press kit, it is very important in terms of public relations and communication. It's a document that gathers all the relevant information of the project (mission, objectives, values, etc.), it could be said that it is the letter of introduction.

Álex and I worked on this: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U3k_YnMIdJUaTmw16X6CZR5KPMgl0_Ml/edit#heading=h.9k4byahtrni1

[derberg]

@Barbanio you do not have to convince me, I like the idea. I just asked about The press kit that you have on the list, what exactly is it? the document you linked or? Sorry for not expressing myself clearly in initial comment

[Barbanio]

@derberg Yes, it's that document.

[hkaur008]

Hey , Can i still take up this issue ? If yes then let me know the task and task files .

[derberg]

@Barbanio hey, @hkaur008 wants to help out creating the press tab. Can you provide her with all the data and files needed for it? I mean what exactly needs to be provided on the website? Without this it will be hard to even provide a mockup

Aside from the list of the things provided in the issue description, I think we should also expose on the press table the brand files, logos I mean, the ones that we have here https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/17XAR-6D8Le7iQT3Y6laKNBsaGj_8DStF ?

Also, the issue is called press tab but it also might be just a press drop down in navigation with just a bunch of links maybe, to all these different resources, or dedicated views. Just a hint to explore different options, and review how others do it

[Barbanio]

Hi! sure, @hkaur008 your willingness is great!

I think the most important are the newsgathering points, press releases, and the press kit because the rest would be links.

• Newsgathering: in this point, we propose to gather the most important news about AsyncAPi that has appeared in important media.
• Press releases: always update with the last 2 or 3 press releases, for now, we have one, right?
• Press Kit: would be nice to be reviewed by more people and have more contributions (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U3k_YnMIdJUaTmw16X6CZR5KPMgl0_Ml/edit#heading=h.9k4byahtrni1)

@derberg I think it is a very good idea to put the brand files as well.

We can see how this information is presented in other projects.

[hkaur008]

Sorry, I just had my last exam today! Okay, As far as I understand it would be just a section to give insights about many things Asyncapi is up to .

1. So I have to build a section where we can display/render the latest news about AsyncAPI
2. One press releases section to have the latest 2 or 3 press releases, Suggestion : we can link to the section having all press releases
3. How you want to display presskit ? Currently its a doc file . A separate article kind of page or anything else ?

Please let me now where I have to code for same , any file reference or folder or frontend design which is needed to be built 😊

[Barbanio]

Hi, I hope your exams went well :) Yes, the initial idea is to put all the information inside a press section, something like Postman or Nordic APIs for example: https://www.postman.com/company/press-media/ https://nordicapis.com/about/press/ Press kit document I think we could put it in .pdf format, what do you think?

[hkaur008]

https://www.postman.com/company/press-media/ they are having a different section for press media . I was unable to find link to press media on their site , was that in footer ? i will work accordingly

[Barbanio]

Yes, it's in the footer, in "company", the last column on the right 😊

[hkaur008]

So , what exactly i have to do ? Can you please list works and where I have to code . 😊

[derberg]

• The footer component is here https://github.com/asyncapi/website/blob/master/components/Footer.js
• Change the footer in the way proposed by @fmvilas on Slack, using Tailwind component as inspiration.
• Put there list of links (with icon indicating that link takes you outside the website):
  • Press kit
  • Contact
  • Logos @fmvilas I guess you need to cleanup there a bit as there are still some AsyncAPI Hub things + eve and chan is not there

That would be it from me. This would be the first part, a footer with links to external resources.

Now the second part is the list of articles about AsyncAPI in media. @Barbanio I guess you are referring to articles from InfoQ, Linux Foundation. Please first suggest a list of articles and what would be the URL pointing to the view with list, asyncapi.com/? asyncapi.com/mentions?

@hkaur008 I guess you are partially unblocked now?

[Barbanio]

Yes, I'm referring to those types of articles. These are the most relevant ones I have found, I'm sure I'm forgetting some of them. The same news is covered by different media and different news is covered by the same media like Info Q. In principle, I think we can put them all acquiring the added value of those media that talk about AsyncAPI. What do you think? On the other hand, I think they would fit better in asyncapi.com/mentions.

Articles:

• https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/12/asyncapi-postman-partnership/
• https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/05/ebay-adopts-asyncapi/
• https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/03/linux-foundation-hosts-asyncapi/
• https://thenewstack.io/asyncapi-2-0-enabling-the-event-driven-world/
• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/linux-foundation-will-host-asyncapi-to-support-growth-and-collaboration-for-industrys-fastest-growing-api-spec-301258644.html
• https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201208005285/en/Postman-and-AsyncAPI-Partner-on-the-Next-Generation-of-APIs
• https://cloud7.news/linux/linux-foundation-to-host-asyncapi-to-support-growth/
• https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-foundation-to-host-fast-growing-asyncapi-initiative/
• https://siliconangle.com/2021/03/30/542120/
• https://www.heise.de/news/AsyncAPI-Spezifikation-landet-bei-Linux-Foundation-6003106.html

[derberg]

I think we should put emphasis on news diversity and avoid duplication. In other words, media news about "AsyncAPI joining Linux Foundation" should show up just once and from different source than InfoQ cause we have other articles from them.

Does it make sense?

I see you have one article in German, so we definitely need to clearly separate in the UI, news in English from news in different lanugages.

[Barbanio]

Yes, it makes sense, the same goes for the Postman and AsyncAPI news. I have selected the media by the quality of the news and by the number of visits per month and the list would look like this:

• https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/05/ebay-adopts-asyncapi/
• https://thenewstack.io/asyncapi-2-0-enabling-the-event-driven-world/
• https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201208005285/en/Postman-and-AsyncAPI-Partner-on-the-Next-Generation-of-APIs
• https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-foundation-to-host-fast-growing-asyncapi-initiative/
• https://www.heise.de/news/AsyncAPI-Spezifikation-landet-bei-Linux-Foundation-6003106.html

Do you think it is relevant that the German media appears in this case, or that in the future other media that do not work in English will appear?

[derberg]

I think it is fine to list mentions in other languages, why not, just pick some written in Spanish, at least one.

I imagine the list of articles shows up like this but of course, instead of people image, there would be an article cover photo. Such a grid view could be separated by some label, English-written articles at the top, and then below other languages

[hkaur008]

current footer on site: what else links i need to add ? Got code for new footer Option 1 Similar to current in theming Option 2 darker Better one acc to ur suggestions ?

[magicmatatjahu]

@hkaur008 Hi! We should choose the first option (white), similar to current design :)

what else links i need to add ?

As @derberg wrote, you should add links from this https://github.com/asyncapi/website/issues/195#issuecomment-847689807 comment

I only don't know which links and in which way we should show them, I mean to which groups we should split the links. In the future we should have groups: Tooling, Support, Company and there I have a problem for Press link/group, because usually Press is an another link in the Company group but Łukasz wants in the https://github.com/asyncapi/website/issues/195#issuecomment-847689807 comment that Press should be as a separate group, next to the Company. For me we can go with it, but let's see what other people think, @fmvilas @jonaslagoni @smoya @Barbanio

Related to articles: I think that we should have an 4th link named Articles with link asyncapi.com/press-and-media and this page should be similar to our /blog page, however, we should create this as the next PR, because there will be a lot to do.

I also add link to original design of footer, for other people from community https://tailwindui.com/components/marketing/sections/footers

[AlejandrolMiguel]

Hi guys! I hope everything is going well. I know that you miss me (im adorable) , but please let me out of this e-mails. Thanks! Alejandro

[derberg]

I think it is ok if we go as simple as possible here, so just have two sections in white footer,

• Press with link mentioned in previous comments
• Others with links that are currently in the footer, except for the press

in follow up PRs we can extend Others into separate sections, in a separate discussion about it.

[Barbanio]

HI! I don't know if this is the ideal place to leave this information... I have created a repository with the press kit in markdown in case one day it is uploaded to the web or someone needs it in .md

I edit the link to the PR: https://github.com/Barbanio/Press-Kit/pull/1

[fmvilas]

@Barbanio I see there are style issues with the headings on the press kit. For instance here but it's repeating the same thing in every heading. I think we should not be copying the styles from the original document and instead put the headings in a single line. Does it make sense?

[Barbanio]

@fmvilas Sure, it makes sense, it looks better now.