Create issues regarding desired functionality for the home page

[MegaKeegMan]

We need a clear set of user stories about who should be able to do or see what on the front page. Just a reminder that a good user story describes the who, when/where, what, and why, and is generally formatted like:

As a... When I... I can... So that...

For each feature issue created for the home page, please link back to this issue by including a reference to #389 (this issue)

Home page related notes from this month's meeting are below

Meeting notes

• Content above the fold would be public facing. Let's say policy makers want to learn about disaster studies, this is our latest research, or activists looking for public research to motivate their campaigns
• but it should not be just this. It also needs to be a collaborative research space
• the front page needs to do a lot of work because we need it to serve both of these purposes.
• It would be nice if people could choose what views go where. Maybe a standard set that people could choose from

Homepage vs Dashboard?

Keep carousels, in terms of large images. (Does not need to autoplay?)

Currently, platform managers can add "front page sliders" … in some difficult / not intuitive way that has to be looked each time! It is the front page image slideshow content type.

Front page could be handled more like PECE essays:

Platform manager can add text to a certain panel, an image to another, as slideshow elsewhere.
The stuff that shows up on the platform does *not* have to be content types, its only purpose is to show up on the homepage.

Let's get rid of the concept of dashboard for discoverability of personal content, we have faceted search then we have a logged in version of homepage, which is essentially a dashboard:

• see your own personal content
• you can add things
• a personalized homepage

(After this, I recall some discussion about how maybe there needs to be some more conversation, as there may actually be helpful distinctions between dashboard and homepage, like a dashboard might be a place for a contributor to find things more related to them).

[MegaKeegMan]

Default content issues: #344 Carousel issue: #345 Featured projects: #401

[MegaKeegMan]

Just a note about the layouts I selected for the layout paragraph right now, i discovered that they are provided by https://www.drupal.org/project/lbl and it is worth checking whether it is worth keeping this module installed (it might be because the 2, 3, and 4 column layouts are very simple)