Reorganizing content on Xubuntu.org

[Simon Steinbeiß]

On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 01:48:58 +0300
Pasi Lallinaho <pasi at shimmerproject.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've been playing around with the Xubuntu website content and
> organization lately and have some thoughts about reorganization that
> would make the (menu) structure more logical - and hopefully easier to
> grasp - both for us and our visitors. The result of my thought process
> is laid out below.

Much appreciated, this is a great effort!

> GET INVOLVED
> The Get Involved page needs some reorganization and a change of focus.
> Currently, we focus on the three tips and then continue with subteams.
> Since we communicate a lot and often, we should instead emphasize our
> communication channels – the IRC channel and the developer mailing list.
> 
> The subteams are somewhat awkwardly grouped and make no sense (any
> more). This will require a few redirections from the IS but I'll happily
> handle the requests and follow-ups.
> 
> An early draft for the new page can be found at [1]. Please note that
> you need to log in to the website in order to be able to access this
> page. Members of the Xubuntu team and/or website team can do this.

We've discussed this on IRC already a bit, so I won't comment again at length, but I really second this emphasis on our communication channels. After all, we want people to be able to easily get in touch with us, so starting by exposing that seems like a really good idea to me. Visually, the two columns also break up the "wall of text" we currently have and the graphics is a step in the right direction too!

> MENU STRUCTURE
> Currently, we list both "The Team" and "The Community" as top menu
> items. The content inside these is a bit overlapping and it's hard to
> say where you should find some of the information in some cases.
> 
> Option 1: xm-community-ph.png
> 
> Since we want to emphasize the community instead of the team, I propose
> we change the menu item "The Team" to "The Community" and group the
> following subpages under it (in the following order):
>   – The Team Blog
>   – Get Involved (moving from "The Community")
>   – Contact Us
>   – Developer Area (new, add when content is ready)
> 
> "The Community" should be renamed to something else, but I don't know
> what yet (ideas welcome). In any case, the subpages under that would be
> (at least) the following:
>   – Products
>   – Donate
> 
> I'm unsure where the "Resources & Assets" subpage should fall into yet –
> it's possible that it shouldn't even have it's own menu item.
> 
> Option 2: xm-community-developer.png
> 
> If the developer area seems to grow, grouping all the abovementioned
> menu items under "The Community" is possible, with the exception that
> the Developer Area menu item would become another top menu item.
> 
> 
> DEVELOPER AREA
> The developer area is still work in progress. Content that could/should
> fall under it:
>   – Team calendar (currently unlinked)
>   – Current development cycle, including stuff like links to appropriate
> blueprints, the work items tracker etc.

I like/prefer Option 2, that grouping somehow makes more sense to me. Also, directly exposing the team calendar and an overview of the current cycle is something I would really want from the website. It'll hopefully make our development process more transparent and accessible to folks from the community.

So yeah, all in all, very nice work!
Cheers
Simon