[Marketing] Website review

[Jody Garnett]

Steve I have a couple important glitches to fix, and the SAV volunteer that
was helping me is away.

I am thinking of reaching out to get interactive to address the following:

1) Sponsors page, not all sponsors are being listed as we add them.

https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2158

2) Search not seeming to find post content, only title information.

* https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2161
* https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/issues/194

3) adding query parameters to the URLs (so we can link to a list of charter
members, geoforall PDFs, etc...)

https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2085

I expect some of these to fall under support maintenance, and some to form
the heart of a small work order.
--
Jody Garnett


On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 at 08:55, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> For functionality issues we do have some support from get interactive for
> the first year. I think the search not working would be worth following up
> on.
>
> For new features we have some budget, currently the GeoForAll committee is
> working with get interactive to migrate some of their resources from the
> previous website.
>
> The biggest feature I am missing is the ability to "link" to the results
> of filters - this is holding up the ability have a list of voting members.
>
> Some good direction from the board and CRO is to:
> a) Use LDAP for the wiki, so everyone can use the same OSGEO userid for
> the website and wiki. This should help with profiles.
> b) The use of the members list to manage voting members, since the list
> has gotten too long for CRO to track
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 at 07:59, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A quick scan of the web site suggests that multiple content creators are
>> possibly a source of inconsistency in the way we do things.
>>
>> For example - on the resources tab we have an enormous number of pdfs
>> uploaded by geo for all, this is going to get out of control unless we
>> offer better filtering and some archiving. The search and filter don’t seem
>> to work for me but that might be a safari thing (don’t have time to test
>> with another browser right now). Alternatively we could encourage them to
>> host their newsletters on their web site and just provide one link in the
>> resources section of the OSGeo web site
>>
>> Initiatives seem to be proliferating (I acknowledge my own small bit of
>> responsibility here) - that may be a great thing but should someone be
>> deciding what constitutes an initiative that should appear on the web site?
>> Maybe the marketing committee does do this?
>>
>> Member bios are inconsistent, some do not have photos some do not have
>> any content  apart from a couple of ticks in projects e.g.
>> https://www.osgeo.org/member/pawley/.
>>
>> The member search also returns some unexpected results e.g. Jo Cook, Ian
>> Turton and Matt Walker (friends and colleagues of mine) all have Astun
>> Technology in their bios and under the ‘company’ field, I have Astun
>> Technology in bio:
>>
>>    - if you search for Astun only Jo’s name is returned
>>    - If you search for Astun Technology none of our names are returned
>>
>>
>> The service providers section shows 9 logos on the first page (with loads
>> of follow on pages- it appears that these first 9 are not randomly
>> selected, this could cause some upset. Filtering by location takes you to a
>> nightmare dropdown which IMO needs cleaning up. Surely the location filter
>> should be at country level or perhaps in the US at state but not at
>> individual towns/cities where people are located?
>>
>> There is a lot of news being posted which is great but it appears in 9
>> large blocks with 63 follow on pages! Perhaps we need to look at a way of
>> presenting more news items on the front page and also a way of accessing
>> past news by having a date filter or selector? Are there any criteria as to
>> what constitutes OSGeo news (community and foundation) and who can post?
>>
>> Nothing disastrous in these observations but perhaps an indication of how
>> the site could become unwieldy and inconsistent in behaviour and content if
>> we don’t try to set some policies or guidelines now.
>>
>> Cheers
>> ______
>> Steven
>>
>>
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