Create discourse to wiki flows of canonical info

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Planning for improving Open Source Comes to Campus

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Create discourse to wiki flows of canonical info #118

Open shaunagm opened 9 years ago

shaunagm commented 9 years ago

We envision the organizer flow to be from events.openhatch.org to discourse to the wiki.

[x] Modify community to be clearly not OSCTC-specific, and more about creating space for interest groups to chat.
[x] Move mentor and volunteer facing threads, including template threads, to logistics.
[x] Rename logistics to "Event Help" (getting help for your event)
[ ] Streamline the info on Discourse - only high level stuff should be there, the rest should point to wiki with a few exceptions.

dcwalk commented 9 years ago

I'm going to tackle this issue first, ping me if I wind up as a blocker!

paulproteus commented 9 years ago

This is super super duper exciting.

codersquid commented 9 years ago

:) :+1: because I was hoping to use the discussion area for things like Community Data Science Workshop too.

shaunagm commented 9 years ago

Cool, @codersquid!

dcwalk commented 9 years ago

@shaunagm I can't actually modify the name of the category, that might have to be you?

shaunagm commented 9 years ago

Done!

dcwalk commented 9 years ago

Cool @shaunagm, looks good. Do you still think it would be valuable to remove the topics within event help or leave them for now?

Also, can you move the Volunteers & Mentors topic to the Contribute category?

I think that would take care of one of the other points above! I adjusted the descriptions already.

shaunagm commented 9 years ago

I think it's probably fine to leave them there, at least until we have a better idea.

And I've moved the Volunteers & Mentors subcategory.

dcwalk commented 9 years ago

An update on this, I think the balance right now is okay... but discourse should be updated in concert with #114. Further, will need to adjust/update the wiki content, haven't begun to tackle that, will add some tools here.

Tools for looking at wiki pages: General Statistics Listing of all Pages -- have to select 1 of 4 slices, ~300 per section Orphaned Pages Categories -- OSCTC category only has 2 pages. A good first step might be adding relevant pages to the category. Unused Categories -- Pages to Delete/Out of Date categories exist but are unused, might be great resource for updating content. 'Special' Pages available on OpenHatch for diagnosing wiki 'Special' Pages complete listing

Thoughts on next step?

shaunagm commented 9 years ago

I think it might be time to start brainstorming use cases and thinking about what their "flows" would be onto the site. Types of users we might want to make use cases for:

people interested in learning more about organizing events
people who have decided to organize an event
people who are mentoring at an event
people attending an event as students
people wanted to run affiliated events
people who want to welcome newcomers to their projects via events
people who want to contribute to OSCTC