Let CG handle (some pages on) website

[relu91]

As discussed via email and during today's main call, @egekorkan and I as chairs of WoT CG would like to move some editing activities of the website to the WoT community group. This issue is to discuss the pros and cons of this change and to collect WG and IG opinions.

Our idea was to give the ability to edit the content of the following sections: Developers, Documentation, and Videos. This aligns with the Scope of Work and Goals defined in the newly created charter (see preview).

[relu91]

Notice that in the statement above we would like to move just content editing activities. This means no changes in the style of web pages. My personal take is that having the community involved also in the design and layout of the website would improve it and keep it consistently updated with the design trends. There are plenty of communities that also design their website's logos and material. One example is Inkscape.

I know that this might get controversial that's why I didn't include it in the official statement above. However, I would like to know if the WG/IG would be interested in handing over this work item too.

[mmccool]

Some thoughts about this:

1. We need to clearly distinguish CG and WG communications. We should consider some policies for this (e.g. posting tweets from specific accounts for each) and for the web page, perhaps some design elements (e.g. a background pattern or color, maybe with a "WoT WG" or "WoT CG" watermark).
2. While it's good to identify specific pages, it would be even better to identify specific activities. My understanding from the pages that you have mentioned above is that you'd like the CG to handle informative documentation and training materials, and developer support, which I agree is a CG community-building activity, not a WG activity. That should be aligned with whatever you say in the CG charter.
3. We should distinguish content management from website management (setting up scripts, design, etc). Let's focus this issue on the content of certain pages. We can discuss whether website management should be a CG activity separately (should create another issue for that if you'd like to discuss).

[mmccool]

Discussion:

• Goal is to make CG activities visible and consolidate activities (so people do not overlook CG activities when they visit the WoT web page).
• Reiterate should focus on specific issue raised here: do we want CG to manage these pages
• Each group needs to define their activities, do have their own automatically generated pages
• issue with overlap between Marketing TF and CG; public communication from WG goes through main call; CG is for user groups, community building, etc.
• what is an official communication? press releases? tutorials? what is the boundary?
• MM: personally would rather not see "joint" pages, it's confusing; should be one or the other; but can still put under the same "site".
• Seb: would prefer separate sites for WG/CG; some good examples; JP CG is another example
• Daniel: outsiders will not understand CG/WG and separate sites confusing; but a separate site would avoid conflicts, getting blocked, etc. (request: pros/cons? need a solution that can put things on one "site")
• Cristiano: would like to focus on the specific question in the issue; still many other things to clarify; but just want to know if CG can publish content on these three pages? Can people just provide yes/no input on this specific question?
• Kaz: some would like consolidated page; need to follow up in marketing call; CG is different from a process viewpoint

[danielpeintner]

Our idea was to give the ability to edit the content of the following sections: Developers, Documentation, and Videos.

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[egekorkan]

My single wish is that we should not have different pages for WG/IG and CG.

As an example, I really like the content of the Japanese CG webpage (from what I can sort of understand, 0 Japanese knowledge) and WG/IG page would profit tremendously from the content there if they were on the same page (w3.org/WoT) and the content was in English. Such explanatory information is really great for outsiders and making it less visible by moving to another page would be just counter productive.