Nominate authors for the 2020 Web Almanac

rviscomi commented 4 years ago

We're getting a late start this year, but it's time to start planning who will author the 2020 Web Almanac. Leave a comment to nominate someone for a particular chapter. If that person has already been nominated (do a quick Ctrl F), stamp that comment with your 👍. @obto and I will be reaching out to nominees to gauge their interest and select authors.

If you're more comfortable nominating in private, feel free to DM me on Twitter @rick_viscomi.

I want to take a brief detour to acknowledge that this is an extraordinarily stressful time for everyone. We need to take care of ourselves first and foremost and saying "no" to new commitments is perfectly acceptable. Please understand that the person you're nominating may not have the time or energy to contribute this year.

If you're considering becoming an author, please read our Authors' Wiki with more info about the level of commitment.

@HTTPArchive/authors please consider making room for other voices and nominating someone else to carry on your chapter this year. As the most recent subject matter experts to write about these subjects, you're the ones who are in the best position to suggest other experts from the community who would be a great fit to continue the tradition. We should be especially cognizant of the balance of perspectives and nominate people who don't necessarily all look or think alike. What makes the Web Almanac special isn't the stats, but the people who interpret them through their own unique lens. These experts should be a reflection of the web community as a whole, not some bubble within it. If you'd like to work with new authors on chapters you previously wrote, you are strongly encouraged to take on the role of peer reviewer to assist this year's authors with content brainstorming and technical review.

We can use the list of chapters from last year as a starting framework. I'll also be adding new chapters as potential topics for exploration. Reading through these chapters/topics and think about the experts you'd like to see authoring them. If you're interested in authoring a particular chapter, feel free to self-nominate. And if you have an idea for a new chapter, we'd love to hear it.

Page Content

User Experience

Content Publishing

Content Distribution

cc @HTTPArchive/almanac-contributors

ldevernay commented 4 years ago

@obto : I think I could write a section on sustainable design (given an analyst could give me a hand to gather stats). The basics are in one of my articles : https://ldevernay.github.io/green/2019/11/13/web_almanac.html (and we could probably go further on the subject) Unless it becomes a sub-section of another section (like Design).

foxdavidj commented 4 years ago

Hery @ldevernay. After discussing the idea of a Sustainable Design chapter, we think it'd be best to incorporate it into the Design chapter for now. If it looks like there's enough unique content to separate it from the Design chapter once an outline and metrics have started coming together, we'll consider splitting it off into its own chapter entirely 😃

jrharalson commented 4 years ago

I'd really like to help (co-authoring, reviewing, and/or extracting data) with the ECommerce chapter this year to highlight several critical platforms that were not "discovered" by the wappalyzer tool in 2019. IBM/HCL, SAP/Hybris, and SalesForce Commerce Cloud platforms are significant players in the Ecommerce platform space that I'd like to figure out to uncover via wapp + maybe Crux/HTTPArchive or some other combination.

rviscomi commented 4 years ago

Hi everyone, thank you for all of your nominations! This project is entirely supported by community contributors and it's great to see so many amazing people stepping up.

As a next step, we're ready to start selecting the lead authors for each content team. We've created tracking issues for each chapter, so we can close this nominations thread now. If you'd like to contribute to a chapter, please find it in the list below and leave a comment.

HTTPArchive / almanac.httparchive.org