Starting a 2025 work plan

Last year our budget request was not met, in part because we did not have a clear plan of exactly what website improvements would be required. This is a bit of an egg and chicken problem as sorting out what was needed is often step one.

I have started a work plan document to:

  • Address some usability gaps @scottmchale has been collecting
  • Fix easy things (like Mastodon and Discourse logos)
  • Look at areas our community struggle to maintain

Thanks @jive this is a great list.
You allude to the wiki, but one potential concrete action might be link each wiki page back to the relevant website page so if people end up on the wiki, they can find the relevant page on the website.
Secondly, possibly to add to the Contact - OSGeo page, a link/email for “If you have a question about the website content, e.g. I can’t find X, or Y is wrong, please contact X” or similar.
Just a couple of quick thoughts.

Thanks, Jody.

A couple of wiki pages that I work with do have such a link back to the website, but nothing consistent. Can you add your idea to a “content” heading as I would like to see this plan cover “user experience” challenges we intend to peruse with our community.

For feedback there is a page contact in the header that details about how to contact the organization including a form.

And the footer:

The “mailing lists” link to communication which is about contacting the osgeo community.

A challenge we have is there is three stories to be told, people end different places and confused.

  1. Formal: “who is responsible” and that is the board and officers page like an org chart. This page is simple but incomplete with contact details missing for many individuals.
  2. Informal: Contact us page with is probably the good place for feedback. This page keeps getting complicated in an attempt to redirect technical questions or formal requests. I think we should keep this simple and expect we will get a constant stream of requests to redirect.
  3. Everything: communication page is the only page that should be complicated as we have many options for communication and they change over time.

The Getting Started page also starts to overlap with “communication” as inviting people in is part of it.

@scottmchale this kind of process review / optimization is more your thing? What should we do?