[web] Improvements to the website content

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Currently, the home page has this content:

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Overview

Our team is committed to fostering a culture of networked collaboration, promoting open-source software development, open data, and open access in research and education. We will support the university community in adoption of open practices to ensure we maximize our impact on a local and global scale to leverage GWU’s research, teaching, and policy expertise.

Core objectives:

• Create a centralized organizational entity advocating for open practices initiatives.
• Develop and implement policies, processes, and guidelines for open-source software and open scholarship
• Provide training, tools, and resources to support open-source software (OSS), open data, and open access.
• Build a strong local community comprised of faculty, staff, and students.

Why should you consider joining the open source community?

• Connect with a global community of engineers and scientists passionate about sharing knowledge and solving important challenges.
• Learn how to deliver high quality and reproducible research
• Learn skills to develop code in a collaborative development environment that will translate well to careers in industry.
• Learn skills to build and deploy production code
• Support and improve a tool you love
• Public OSS will always be available to you after you leave a project or a company
• OSS is more secure than proprietary software
• OSS enables innovation better than closed development
• To learn more about how the OSPO can support your open source work or if you are excited to join the GW open source community, please contact us by email at ospo@gwu.edu or book a consultation.

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This was pulled from the proposal document, with the purpose of getting our site up. The Drupal system gives this eval (yikes!):

"SEO score The copy scores 37.3 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered difficult to read. Try to make shorter sentences, using less difficult words to improve readability."

We need to rethink and rewrite...

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On the LinkedIn page:

About

The OSPO coordinates and supports open-source software development across GW, helping researchers embrace open source tools and practices. It aims to create a culture of open collaboration and knowledge sharing aligned with GW’s research and educational mission. Activities include training programs, infrastructure and tools for open source development, events fostering community and collaboration, and developing partnerships with industry and government. The OSPO will enable researchers to comply with open data mandates, navigate intellectual property issues, and develop strategies for managing research software. It will also expand educational offerings to give students hands-on open source development experience. Its overarching mission is to make open source an integral part of GW’s research and education ecosystem. The GW OSPO was founded in 2023 thanks to a grant from the Sloan Foundation to co-principal investigators Prof. Lorena A. Barba, and Dean of Libraries Geneva Henry. Prof. Barba is the inaugural faculty director.

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I've simplified the landing page for now. Struggling with Drupal still.

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Have revamped the website content (Home) and structure as follows:

1. removed text over the hero image: more clean
2. added tagline using Liberator, and sub-tagline
3. replaced "Overview" with a new "What we do" section
4. replaced side image
5. edited long bullet list "Why should you consider joining…?" to a shorter list (pulled from brochure draft on Box)
6. added section with three-across icons linking to main site pages
7. added fact row with three stats about OSS
8. added my testimonial with photo
9. worked with Olivia to polish custom footer, adding links to social media accounts and official logo
10. added utility links (buff row on top of header)
11. changed navigation order: Project Registry is now the first item (matches order of three-across icons)
12. added left navigation to subpages under Resources
13. cleaned up and created new taxonomy of article types: Experience, Guidance, News, Press Release, Publication
14. edited existing articles to choose an article type

Note: @david-lippert @s2t2 – Make sure that new articles posted choose an article type.

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New article published under Storied (type:Publication):

Public Access Policies and Research Software: Mind the Gap

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Pro tip – Used a new item in the Outside Author field to enter "CC_BY 4.0" and display license information under the byline, and also added a license badge and notice at the bottom of the article with the following added in "Source" mode:

<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://licensebuttons.net/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br /> Content licensed under Creative Commons Atribution International 4.0

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Added on the Home page: new section on Featured Stories and News, using three-across cards and manually entered content and links for three articles.

Pro tip – in the future, can achieve this using a Feed with a specific article tag; for example, can add the tag "featured" to articles we want to display there.

Note – important to add tags to articles and to think about how to use tags for custom feeds.

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Note: Related content links show a broken image if the target article does not have a feature image.

It may be that we have to strive to have a featured image for all articles.