I would be happy to take part in the website working group On Wed, Feb 7, 2024 at 12:11 PM Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote:
> Proposed: Form a formal Website working group. > > (I am aware that I haven’t defined “working group” yet, and I do, in fact, > intend to propose a Working Groups Working Group which could possibly > formalize what a working group looks like. I have some ideas, but no desire > to go define it on my own.) > > The Website WG would, obviously, be responsible for the maintenance of the > website. I am aware that some folks think I’m just off doing that on my > own, and that’s part of what I’m trying to avoid (see > https://lists.apache.org/thread/nwvr28gq51c8v0wkqjv8xvvc2xqrtf03 for > further commentary). I would like to gather a group of people who 1) care > about it and 2) are willing to do some of (NOT ALL) the work. > > Specific things that I believe we should tackle include > > * Long-term maintenance of the site. This involves regular audits, > implementing metrics, and perhaps other things > * Reorg - this is a short-term task that I’ve been just doing on my own, > which ensures it will never get done, and if it did, there may be some > disagreement about how I did it. > * Deduplication - work closely with MarkPub to figure out the *right* > place for certain information; work through the policy/best-practice > dichotomy and ensure that we are *not* duplicating policy docs; Work on > content on www.a.o <http://www.a.o/> that is closely related to content > on community.a.o - which one is authoritative? Ensure that we don’t > duplicate, contradict, or confuse. > > There’s probably more. > > I would hope that a WG would have regular checkins (could be email, Slack, > Google Meet, I really don’t care, as long as everyone is engaging with the > conversation.) > > If you are interested in helping form this group, please speak up in this > thread, and help us help one another. > > — > Rich Bowen > rbo...@rcbowen.com > > > > > -- Andrew Wetmore Editor, Moose House Publications <https://moosehousepress.com/> Editor-Writer, The Apache Software Foundation <https://apache.org/>
