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UNICEF Open Source Inventory. A UNICEF Global Innovation knowledge base of best practices and resources for working and leading Open.
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[tracker] Outreachy Internship: Improve UI/UX of UNICEF Inventory and redesign site around the Digital Public Goods Standard #124

Closed jwflory closed 2 years ago

jwflory commented 2 years ago

This is a meta issue to track the overall Outreachy internship project for May-August 2022.

Summary

There are two goals for the internship:

  1. Improve UI/UX of the Inventory Hugo theme, so it is more responsive and user-friendly.
  2. Redesign the existing categories to map to the Digital Public Goods Standard, and work with other UNICEF colleagues and UNICEF Innovation Fund start-up companies to get to know their challenges in complying with the Standard.

Background

Previous discussion and context

This is something we have been discussing for some time. Together with other members of the team (@acabunoc, @nathanbaleeta, @prajectory, @lacabra, and others), we started mapping what the restructure might look like in this Google Doc.

Technical breakdown: Open Source Inventory V.S. Inventory theme

During the internship, you will get to know two major components of the project: the UNICEF Inventory theme and the Open Source Inventory website.

UNICEF Inventory theme

The UNICEF Inventory theme is a general-purpose theme that anyone can use to create a new knowledge-base website. The theme is made for the Hugo static site generator tool. Anyone using Hugo can import the UNICEF Inventory theme into their project and use it for building a new website.

The theme is most prominently used on the Open Source Inventory website (explained below), but there are also other UNICEF projects and open source communities using the theme too. The UNICEF Inventory theme is a common "upstream" project for the different websites and projects using it. Changes and improvements made to the theme should benefit all downstream users.

Open Source Inventory website

The UNICEF Open Source Inventory is a knowledge-base of best practices, resources, and information about working and leading Open. This is maintained as part of the Open Source Mentorship program offered by the UNICEF Innovation Fund. The Open Source Inventory provides mentorship and guidance to anyone seeking to adopt best practices in their journey to building an Open Source project and community. It is self-serve and can be used at various phases of building a project and community.

At UNICEF, the Open Source Inventory is an important part of how we deliver guidance and coaching to UNICEF Innovation Fund companies. The knowledge-base is used to teach best practices about working on open source projects and how to launch your own project. The overall goal is to empower others with the knowledge and background they need to be successful in their open source projects. In other words, we want to help others build successful, inclusive, and sustainable open source communities!

The Open Source Inventory website is the most well-known Hugo site using the UNICEF Inventory theme.

Details

This section will be updated and modified as the application period comes closer. The best way to describe the general approach is in three parts:

Outcome

jwflory commented 2 years ago

NOTE: If you are an Outreachy applicant and want to work on this project during the contribution phase, please start with these three issues first:

  1. unicef/inventory-hugo-theme#59
  2. unicef/inventory-hugo-theme#60
  3. unicef/inventory-hugo-theme#61
Abbiefied commented 2 years ago

Hello @jwflory , I have completed the three tasks and i would like to work on this task. Thank you!

jwflory commented 2 years ago

@Abbiefied Hi, this issue is for the full internship. For the Outreachy contribution period, the theme issue tracker is the best place to look for new tasks.

I would also like to note that I closed the project for new applicants in the Outreachy portal. It is a very competitive round and we only have one funded internship. It may be strategic to look at other communities with fewer applicants for their mentored projects. I know the Fedora Project is one other excellent community and they are funding three interns.

jwflory commented 2 years ago

The scope for the DPG Standard redesign may change. As we review existing open source guidance and resources for Venture Fund companies and the DPG Alliance about the DPG Standard, there is an opportunity to consolidate our efforts to a single project. There are two other places where information about the DPG Standard is published:

It would ideal for these three existing efforts to fold into one, and we can break down collaboration barriers so our teams can work more closely together.

CC: @nathanbaleeta @Idadelveloper

jwflory commented 2 years ago

Over the last three months, @Neha9849 heroically led the charge on completing this project! In addition to several UI/UX improvements and conducting many user interviews with Venture Fund staff and portfolio company founders & tech leads, we have a new design of the UNICEF Open Source Inventory that reflects the Digital Public Goods Standard (PR #136). I intend to make a final pass and get this merged ASAP. In the mean time, I am going to close this issue as complete.

Thanks for all your great work over the last few months @Neha9849, and all the best on your next chapters to come! 😊

Neha9849 commented 2 years ago

Thanks @jwflory 🙌