Could you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE populate coderefinery.github.io with this content?

[matuskalas]

It is always a major undertaking even for myself (as a CR contributor and alumnus instructor) to find the CR materials, info, etc. whenever I need something. 🤯

Then it is no surprise that most of the European scientific community has no idea about CR, and even if they hear about it, they can't find reliable info 😥 (In 4 words: "Severely counter-productive outreach")

Result: Projects to reinvent CR. For example here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1STVrPjk0djjavBIYIderU2rvD0lPXuHodey4O5KK6qU/edit# (PLEASE JOIN!!!! Form here. I wish I had some capacity myself☹)

Concrete issues, or points to fix asap:

1. coderefinery.org doesn't show up on my web searches (DuckDuckGo, Firefox), probably because all the content is in https://coderefinery.github.io/XYZ
2. coderefinery.github.io is empty, what is a major bummer
3. There has to be a page listing all the lessons/training materials, textual and recorded. Not only as per a workshop event (https://coderefinery.github.io/2022-09-20-workshop/schedule/), but either directly on coderefinery.github.io or something like coderefinery.github.io/lessons
4. coderefinery.org should perhaps just redirect to coderefinery.github.io
5. Lessons, e.g. https://coderefinery.github.io/git-intro/ do not link up to "see all lessons"/"CR home", what's very bad ☹

After years of suffering (with all these frustrations inside me), and now after seeing a project for reinventing CR, a had to finally speak up🐙😉

[bast]

Thanks a lot for bringing this up and for the good suggestions!

2) is being worked on or already done.

3) https://coderefinery.org/ -> Lessons (top navbar) - how can we make this more visible? Or is this not what you meant?

[rkdarst]

(I forgot to push 'send' yesterday:)

I just added a redirect coderefinery.github.io -> coderefinery.org. Hopefully that provides at least a little bit of first aid.

You are right we need to improve our communications in general. This is a good checklist of stuff to do, hopefully we will be able do most in the next week!

Implementation of (5) above:

• bottom of every lesson sidebar, "CodeRefinery" section with links to "all lessons" and "coderefinery.org" and maybe more ("how to reuse and contribute"?).

There is coderefinery.org/lessons, but you have a good point about search engines treating coderefinery.org and coderefinery.github.io separately. Do links between the pages the link help enough to make this more prominent?

[rkdarst]

Current state:

• All lessons link to coderefinery.org and the list of lessons given in a workshop.
• coderefinery.github.io redirects to coderefinery.org (since the workshop pages don't integrate to coderefinery.org styling, and probably they should stay loosly coupled, I hope this and the previous point are enough to improve search engine rankings.)
• This page lists the "main" lessons (there are a lot more, but that "lot more" is perhaps too much to quickly find what is most useful). Anyway, this links to the full list, and this page is what each lesson links to: https://coderefinery.org/lessons/core/

The website has also gotten a major reworking which hopefully makes it more clear what we do. Maybe it needs more about why someone should build on what we have done, instead of re-building from scratch?

[bast]

This was very important to fix but I consider it fixed now. Closing.