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Welcome to the FORCE11 website development wiki!

Support documentation site https://force11.github.io/website/

Summary

1. Priorities - Issue list - Current priorities are: new site launch, and workflow handovers for Committees
2. Work packages - high-level summaries and status
3. Working process for Committees to make use of the site for their work
4. Website strategy - Executive Summary

Web Dev: Digital strategy, UX, and Content Organization Concepts

A. Digital strategy

The website strategy uses the following as its basis — FORCE11 Mission and Principles, and the organisational priorities (goals) identified in the 2021 Organisation Strategic Review (based on the process of It Takes a Village — ITAV). These are then put into a UX Personas planning and evaluation process. Each organizational area or committee then works with the UX and personas process to steer its site use.

• Website strategy - Executive Summary

The current strategy can be summarized as:

• Turnaround digital presence from survive to thrive: Technical overhead of Drupal has prevented wider development input from organisation and community
• Introduce UX working methods
• Rationalize: technology, graphic design resources, tool chains, and knowledge management (AKA documentation)

B. UX

FORCE11 personas

Brief intro on how personas are used to drive development and evaluation.

These are very broad categories. Specific site areas (Posts, Membership, Groups, etc.) will use three personas each to evaluate needs and performance.

• Early Career Researchers (ECR)
• Global south scholars
• Open science community
• Community decision makers
• Open infrastructure builders
• Funders
• Humanities and STEM scholars
• Scholarly publishers

Site area personas

• Posts
• Membership
• Groups
• Conference
• FSCI
• Events
• Site information
• Fundraising

C. Content Organization Concepts

Information design, organisational models, design concepts, graphics ideas?