Getting involved/contributing to hsg page?

[elfgoh]

List down ways members/non-members can contribute to hsg

[rolandturner]

I'd offer most of the non-financial[1] elements of https://github.com/hackerspacesg/admin/wiki/Things-that-need-doing-on-a-regular-basis-to-keep-the-place-healthy as a starting point.

1: Finances (a) are a specialist area, and (b) require a tightly unified approach in order to avoid ruinous rework costs when preparing annual filings. This generally means requiring a single qualified treasurer at a time, with very constrained input by non-qualified persons.

[elfgoh]

Issue a public call to revamp our website design. Possibly moving off punch into something more well maintained like hugo

[robertsky]

Sorry, can we stick to JavaScript based sitegen, like Hexo or Metalsmith? I have heard so much about Hugo, primarily from Valentine, however switching to Go would limit participation away from non-Go users.

On a related note, I have been wanting to revamp the website design and have been exploring Hexo and Metalsmith along with it (that's why currently the feature/transit_to_punch_blog_for_plenum branch isn't merged in yet).

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[elfgoh]

Doesn't have to be hugo. Though in my experience with geekcampsg, which has the website ran off hugo, running off hugo did not prevent others unfamiliar with golang, once the initial setup is done with netlify

Golang isnt a requirement. A actively maintained alternative is.

[elfgoh]

But either way I think there should be an open call to get more from the community to participate

[elfgoh]

We may get lucky and have helping hands from the js and frontend communities

[elfgoh]

Any objections to a public call?

[elfgoh]

Another thing we need help with. Document a list of FAQs on our website in the hope that most questions only get asked once, failing which, it is a simple matter of providing a link the to FAQ.

Update: turns out we do have an FAQ but linking and more content needed!

[elfgoh]

Another one we will need help with,

• FB group and page admins
• Google group admins
• Event booking officers

[elfgoh]

Another:

• Google form to collect event bookings
• One click action for an event officer to approved a event collected via the google form above

[valentine]

Hugo doesn't expose a Golang API so no prior knowledge of the language is required.

I suggested Metalsmith (echoed in Robert's comment) because as far as I know, @cheeaun uses it. 🏹 If we encounter any problems with Metalsmith, we can commiserate about it together.

[elfgoh]

More of my stream of consciousness. Create an open projects page: current and past. So that people can see what others are working on, or what others have worked on. And for current projects, sufficient teaser info in case people also wanna chip in

[rolandturner]

Like it. Would recommend keeping in mind the distinction between projects and infrastructure. https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/The_Infrastructure_Pattern