Open RichardLitt opened 9 years ago
So that's pretty messy, but here's an information architecture.
Basically, from what I got from your thought dump, this is what I think the site might look like in a site-mappy kind of way.
I suspect there's a couple of things missing.
Mainly, I think it shows that there's some confusion about what a user (mentee) is, and what a user (mentee) can do.
What I think the most important part of the site is, is the Submit a Question -> Project List view. I suspect that everything else is just bells and whistles, and we should figure out that flow as best as possible.
Some thoughts:
This looks really good to me, especially as a thing we can iterate on - aka, build, and then test. Yes, there's probably a few things missing.
Regarding a mentor / mentee - maybe that isn't a useful distiniction. Perhaps we can just have users, who can ask questions or not. There was a differentiator between this and SO, which I can't remember at the moment. I think that communication happening on the repo or by email is great - it is much more useful than having something always be online. @collapsedwave Do you still have your specs anywhere?
Creating an account is OK. I agree. I'm not sure whether an excel document would work - or, rather, I don't know what users I could get to use that. If we had a website with a basic design that linked to some sort of list, that might work - I know of some communities we can bootstrap it on.
A website that just lists requests for PRs would also be a good idea, but probably not here.
@RichardLitt I don't see anything on dropbox, and don't really have time to work on this at the moment. Good luck though!
@collapsedwave No worries! Thanks anyway. Just seeing if I can get an MVP cranked out now that I know a bit more about my skill level and ability to make things.
Thought Dump!
In this version there is a team page, about section, and perhaps a mentor list. GitHub, twitter, fb auth. Settings page. There is a detailed project page, as well as a list of projects. User pages. There is a page for mentors, describing how they can sign up,