[Lexicon] Deciding on a website and repository for our glossary project

[Michael Jastram]

Hi Cameron,

I'll probably attend tomorrow, just one thought for everybody to think 
of beforehand:

> What content do we want to include? 

I would strongly recommend to design the page with Stakeholders in mind 
and what they typically try to do. So we should have a clear "next 
action" for each stakeholder. For example:

*Stakeholder**
* 	*Next Action**
*
Anybody with general interst
	Learn what this project is about and how to sign up for the mailing list
Glossary Author
	Learn how to author glossaries effectively with better tools than Excel
Quality Manager
	Learn how to use glossaries to support QA
Student
	Access well-curated industry glossaries for learning
...
	...

Further, I think in this day and age, first impression (unfortunately) 
is very important.

This means that wherever we host, we should make sure that decent, 
modern templating is available. I believe that this is possible with 
gitHub pages. It would also great to have someone set this up who really 
understands both infrastructure and web design.

And last, we should make sure that it's easy for contributors to edit 
without breaking things. :-)

My 2 cents, talk to you tomorrow.

Best,

- Michael


On 9/12/21 9:49 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> In our last meeting, we discussed providing a landing page for our 
> project. Thanks Michael for the suggestion.
>
> So this off-week we'll have a meeting to discuss hosting questions.
> (You will only need to come along if you have an interest in our 
> domain selection.)
>
> In preparation, questions I expect we need to cover:
>
> A. What content do we want to include? Maybe:
> 1. A landing page and and associated project pages (about the project, 
> contact details, etc)
> 2. How-to pages describing the various design patterns for using 
> distributed glossaries.
> 3. A URL to store our glossary schema profile (which will be 
> referenced by other schemas).
>
> B. Where should we store our git repository?
> 1. glossaries.github.com <http://glossaries.github.com>
> 2. thegooddocsproject.github.com/glossaries 
> <http://thegooddocsproject.github.com/glossaries>
> 3. something else?
>
> C. Where should we put the home page? Maybe:
> 1. Fit under The Good Docs Project, with maybe: 
> https://thegooddocsproject.dev/glossaries 
> <https://thegooddocsproject.dev/glossaries> or 
> https://glossaries.thegooddocsproject.dev 
> <https://glossaries.thegooddocsproject.dev>
> 2. Fit in github? (Maybe start here, then move later.)
> 3. Take over ownership of an existing domain, such as 
> https://www.geolexica.org/ <https://www.geolexica.org/> . Ron, what 
> are your thoughts on this?
> 4. Find a new domain?
>
> D. What else?
>
> -- 
> Cameron Shorter
> Technical Writer, Google
>
>
>
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