It's time to do some high level thinking of what goes where and what gets deleted.
Please dissect this and comment on each part. No rush as always, no pressure - but you asked for it :).
Based on your comment below:
"How I see it (and it's just an idea), it's that for it, the website should be a bit more functional. Meaning that instead of using the whole home page for messages selling the group (missing, what we do...), we could have a longer list of events, links to the documentation, may be a map with the meetups that host sprints (similar to the one in the pandas sprint)..."
Home Page:
Removing part
- Get rid of "our mission" section
- Get rid of "what we do section" (services) - move it to about page (if it will fit into the design).
- Get rid of current way upcoming event is displayed
- Get rid of recent events completely
Adding part:
- At the top: upcoming events for each chapter shown as events are shown now in Events page (basically the way the header for the post looks like). We may need to redesign the layout a bit to see if we can fit the sponsor's logo of the event somewhere.
- Some kind of "Chapters" section where logos of cities are shown with the city name and user can click on that to see upcoming (or all) events for their city. This can also replace the above section so that the user has to select the chapter first before they see events (it all depends on the space we want the events to occupy, initially when we only have ours once / twice a month we have plenty of space and can show its details).
Example of a city logo:

Here we could also have the google style map with geo-locators same as for pandas event.
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Get Started section - set of toggled titles with short descriptions of what kind of problem one can learn about in this toggle and links to the articles explaining them - we should already have some pull request and pandas guides.
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If we get more sponsors and they will stop fitting in the footer / taking close to 90% of it - we need to move them all into sponsors section which should be at the bottom of the home page.
About Page:
I will need to replace the shitty quality photos there and now since we want to make this sort of global I will use good photos from other chapters showing the diversity of our group. Will need to maybe ask people for a list of cities that want to associate with us.
Get Started page:
Events page:
- Renamed to Past Events? Should show chapters to select from and then past events per chapter once user selects one.
Contacts Page:
Credits Page:
- To be added as the last part of work. Place to say thanks to people who's free of charge work we are using and abusing as well as mention our own names (bragging rights, right ? :)).
Ok, thats enough material to tire your brain on. Have a look, let me know what you think when we see each other on Tuesday.
I will get this printed out so we can make notes on the side.
Any other ideas - let me know.
It's time to do some high level thinking of what goes where and what gets deleted.
Please dissect this and comment on each part. No rush as always, no pressure - but you asked for it :).
Based on your comment below:
"How I see it (and it's just an idea), it's that for it, the website should be a bit more functional. Meaning that instead of using the whole home page for messages selling the group (missing, what we do...), we could have a longer list of events, links to the documentation, may be a map with the meetups that host sprints (similar to the one in the pandas sprint)..."
Home Page:
Removing part
Adding part:
Example of a city logo:

Here we could also have the google style map with geo-locators same as for pandas event.Get Started section - set of toggled titles with short descriptions of what kind of problem one can learn about in this toggle and links to the articles explaining them - we should already have some pull request and pandas guides.
If we get more sponsors and they will stop fitting in the footer / taking close to 90% of it - we need to move them all into sponsors section which should be at the bottom of the home page.
About Page:
I will need to replace the shitty quality photos there and now since we want to make this sort of global I will use good photos from other chapters showing the diversity of our group. Will need to maybe ask people for a list of cities that want to associate with us.
Get Started page:
Events page:
Contacts Page:
Credits Page:
Ok, thats enough material to tire your brain on. Have a look, let me know what you think when we see each other on Tuesday.
I will get this printed out so we can make notes on the side.
Any other ideas - let me know.