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Add working group information as one of the main drop downs
I think it would be great to have the info to the working groups in one of the main drop downs on the website! When I have been talking to newcomers lately I find myself many times referring them to a specific working group, and just realized I didnt know where to find that info on the site without using the search bar
I have forwarded this idea to the Tech Writers group, as this might be something they'd like to work on. Thanks so much for posting this idea, @cdolfi !
This issue is related, but I am not sure where this stands: https://github.com/chaoss/community/issues/642
This is temporarily on hold, as there was a lively discussion about this in today's Weekly Community Call. We'd like to continue the conversation in the #general Slack channel for more feedback and to include a wider group of folks in this discussion ❤
Here's what I'm thinking might work for the WG pages to avoid duplication, but also give us something to help people find information about each WG:
- Keep this as our main WG page: https://chaoss.community/kb/working-groups/. This is linked from our governance documents and we could link to it from elsewhere on the website to make it easier to find. Maybe linking it from the calendar page would help?
- For the WGs that keep their information on GitHub (e.g. OSPO, Data Science, Funding), we should link to the repo for the WG, and not create a new page with duplicate info.
- For the WGs without repos or ones that don't update their repo, create a page for each (e.g., University, UN SDGs)
- As part of this process, we should make sure that the chairs are correctly listed for each WG (whether it's a repo or page) and make sure that all of the WGs have some kind of overview (e.g., scope, purpose, objectives, goals)
I think this would alleviate my concern about having duplicated information that I need to update twice if anything changes in the WGs that I chair, while also making it easier to find details about our WGs.
Hi @geekygirldawn, thank you for sharing. Our thoughts and conclusions after our meeting are quite similar and we intend to present them in the next community call.
However, the differences include:
- Retaining the page but adding a brief note about each working group, similar to the current format but in a broader version, with the co-chairs as points of contact, along with direct links to the GitHub repository and Slack channels.
- Updating key details such as the mission, vision, objectives, and other essential information related to the working groups in the README file on GitHub.
The only possible edits moving forward on the website pages would be:
- Points of contact (co-chairs, if they change).
- Slack channel link (if it changes).
cc @ElizabethN
On the actual location or format, I dont have an opinion. More that from the main navigation bar there is a way to get directly to https://chaoss.community/kb/working-groups/. Maybe under the community drop down?
I came across this link (https://chaoss.community/kb/teams-at-chaoss/) and thought it would be nice to have a directory of leadership in CHAOSS, but it turned out broken.
Since this issue is to solve the problem of not having more information about a wg in the community, maybe we can include the names of co-chairs and liaisons in the documentation. If folks think this is not needed info that needs to be in this issue, I am happy to open a separate issue for it
Hi everyone! I was just cleaning up some stale issues and I'm wondering if this is still something that's being worked on. Maybe by the Technical Writers? @harmonyelendu do you happen to know what the status of this is?
Hey everyone! I needed to update the Working Groups page to include some of our newer groups, so I went ahead and added the Chairs and Co-Chairs to this document. I'm also going to add it as a top-level drop down and see how we like it. We can always change it back to the way it was, just living within the big ball of documentation. :blush: