Integration of DEIT into the main solidproject.org website

[jeff-zucker]

It's important that we have a strong presence on the main website sot that anyone visiting there feels welcome.

Some of the places we should add content :

• The Team page (brief purpose statement + list of chairs with brief bios)
• A DEIT landing page linked from the "Community" menu
  • welcome and brief purpose statement
  • links to full mission statement & other documents, surveys, etc.
  • note : the links could go to sub-pages of sp.org or to a separate website
• A note about inclusion on the main landing page
  • maybe after the "Solid is a protocol section, something like : Solid is also an international community of people supporting the vision of user controlled data and a web for everyone. " Followed by a button labeled "Get Involved!"
• Possibly something on the about page
• DEIT events & meetings listed in all places other events are listed

[aschrijver]

I strongly recommend the Discourse forum as the place where Community belonging is most closely felt. The software is ideal for that, but many features are still unused.

[jeff-zucker]

I am a fan of discourse. But community belonging needs to be felt in many places. And different parts of the community will have different places. For developers, the gitter chat rooms are places where we work together, not talk about working together. For the spec writers, the github repos and issues pages are where it's at. But yes, I agree, for the newcomer, the forum is likely to be the first experience of community. Note that in https://github.com/solid/deit/issues/8, the very first item is "come to the forum and say hi" :-). I don't see this as an either/or though - we need a strong web presence and a strong forum.