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tags: Content
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# conda.org Content Team Meeting Notes

Agendas and notes from the conda.org content team meetings.

Also see [conda.org Meeting notes](https://hackmd.io/I1V185yoS6yVbNkOy1sVdg).

* [Zoom Meeting Link](https://anaconda.zoom.us/j/95199257779?pwd=cEpHWjNpdlBmYjdVa0J1NzVlaUYydz09)

# 2022/12/13

**Present**

* Dave Clements
* Bianca Henderson
* Sriniketh J

**Agenda**

* DC: I'm going to start actively managing the project
* Will checkin with every team, at least once a week.
* Will work with individuals on issues to get them unblocked.
* What's happened over the past two weeks?
* What are our plans for the next two weeks?
* Content have [4 open issues](https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-dot-org/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Acontent)
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* What do we need from the other two teams?
*

# 2022/11/29

**Present**

* Bianca Henderson
* Dave Clements
* Katherine Kinamann
* Travis Hathaway

**Agenda**

* [First Release Epic](https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-dot-org/issues/31)
* ACTION ITEM: Please think of what *has* to be in the first version.
* Community page optional?
* Asmit working on jazzing it up compared to Jupyter
* Docs, links to existing site.
* [3 sample news items](https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-dot-org/pull/29) PR needs a review.
* One of them is an empty file!
* Dave C blushes, and will fix that today.
* Travis looked into implementation and it's hard. Blogs are natively supported, so it's hard to just copy and adapt that code.
* Contributing guide merged.
* New issue for page type specific guide will be created

# 2022/11/15

**Present**

* Katherine Kinamann
* Travis Hathaway
* Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra
* Dave Clements
* Bianca Henderson

**Agenda**

* Action items from previous call
* Create issue for documenting how to contribute ([Done](https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-dot-org/issues/23))
* Push contributor guide
* For now, in GitHub only.
*
* Placeholder content
* Copy news / release notes from discourse.
* Focus on fairly static pages.
* Jaime
* Conda community meetings will be advertised,
* But, need a different way to create agenda for that call.
* So, don't link to biweekly conda community call, *yet*
* Look at all the communities in the same space.
* What other sites can we borrow ideas from.
* Jupyter.org - like conda there are multiple components.
*
* Travis:
* Create an issue: Start thinking about what the community page will look like.
* Reach out to Mamba, conda-forge, etc.
* Will go to meetings and ask.
* Landing page
* Actual text needs refining.
* Need a simple statement of purpose.

# 2022/11/01

Happy November!

**Present**

* Dave Clements
* Travis Hathaway
* Katherine Kinamann
* Sam Hebert
* Asmit Malakannawar
* Sriniketh J

Agenda

* [News page metadata (#8)](https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-dot-org/issues/8)
* Led to a discussion of how to document contribution guidelines for the site. This could start with howto for News Items and then branch out to other bits.
* [Sites to Search](/bafkvlx5SU2TvTGp4iTVkg) ([#19](https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-dot-org/issues/19))
* Please add
* FOSS Friday? (Anaconda internal but maybe extend to other companies?)
* Dedicated day for contributing to conda.org.
* Could use Anaconda's FOSS Friday as a starting point?
* Need an easy to browse project board.
* How to get the word out?
* Universities?
* Dave pushes back
* Style guide?
* This could be done right now.
* Accessibility
* Color pallette make sure it's accessible to people with Red-Green colorblind.
* Contrast
* Sriniketh J
* Undergraduate
* Enjoys tech writing blogging.
* Action Items
* Create issue for documenting how to contribute ([Done](https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-dot-org/issues/23))
* Katherine and Travis take that on.

# 2022/10/18

**Present**

* Dave Clements
* Bianca Henderson
* Katherine Kinamann
* Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra

**Agenda**

* Jaime will be flying!
* Pre-existing content
* Do we just link to it?
* How much tagging / metadata do we support.
* Probably not publish any "external" content guidelines. We decide what we link to.
*

# 2022/10/04

**Present**

* Bianca Henderson
* Katherine Kinamann
* Anna Ng
* Dave Clements

**Agenda**

* Page metadata?
* Should we have some uniform page metadata across all pages on the site? Thinking

---
title: Page Title
tags:
---

And such. See [contributing](https://hackmd.io/5uT5xyRZSZOddg2ogXZJIQ#Page-Metadata) and [this draft](https://hackmd.io/-HIbt-UkROmifc7fDBMijw#Meta) for more.
* Think about what [common metadata](https://hackmd.io/5uT5xyRZSZOddg2ogXZJIQ#Page-Metadata) we will need / can use across pages.
* SEO
* Anacconda.com link to.
* would help tremendously. Probably workable because pyscript.net will almost certainly be linked to.

# 2022/09/20

Present

* Dave Clements
* Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra
* Katherine Kinnaman
* Bianca Henderson

Agenda

* Action items from previous call
* **ALL: Review the earlier [Roadmap](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pNhOJdgmsGVs4ZkQ0YWc5Lw-focxY9Vei9RAnBqsMPU/edit#heading=h.ewp0732l5srn), and Glossary.**
* **ALL: Add content/comments to the [content priority spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1niamLGSuTaQoNdsTSwkYTTdAe8Eh99X7_5Mbt6x0CJo/edit#gid=0)**
* **ALL: VOTE in priority spreadsheet**
* DC: Create [Root linking document in HackMD](https://hackmd.io/V6mHdS7iSuSHchEVjVjcKQ)
* DC: Create [Team space in HackMD](https://hackmd.io/team/conda-dot-org?nav=overview)
* DC: Create a copy of the Roadmap [outside of Quansight space](https://docs.google.com/document/d/106GLJ21ywETaPO1pMHURG4kkcA_ukWwWPUp8Bg3wIc0/edit#).
* **ALL: Start creating content.**
* How to move forward with content?
* [Voting](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1niamLGSuTaQoNdsTSwkYTTdAe8Eh99X7_5Mbt6x0CJo/edit#gid=0) revels there are pages that will be there no matter what our details are.
* We can create and populate those now, before we know about platfrom choice.
* @kathatherine has created [several page stubs](https://hackmd.io/V6mHdS7iSuSHchEVjVjcKQ) as a place to start.
* Collaboration model?
* Create, iterate, with multiple contributors.
* Avoid a strong sense of individual page ownership.
* FAQ: Can start by writing questions.
* **Action items**
* **Two weeks from now (our next call)**
* we will have more progress to report, damn it
* we will refine our process and discuss challenges.
* (Dave C) More widely publish [the request for help](https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-dot-org/blob/main/README.md)
* Twitter, ...

# 2022/09/06

Our first meeting.

Agenda

* Pilot / Co-Pilot
* Dave C and Katherine K
* Unless you step forward, right now
* Flight crew are cat herders, not decision makers.
* Proposing and prioritizing content topics
* Mechanisms?
* [Proposal 1](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1niamLGSuTaQoNdsTSwkYTTdAe8Eh99X7_5Mbt6x0CJo/edit#gid=0)
* Website structure is jointly negotiated with [Design](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eDAjalpJPq4HqJg0yNGNy2-J0gQLNjxX)
* Creating content
* Mechanisms?
* Markdown?
* [HackMD](https://hackmd.io/)? (Like Google Docs with markdown)
* GitHub? (Eventually, once content is ready for publication)
* ~~Google Docs?~~
* What about conda is the most asked about/causes the most confusion?
* [Conda Community Roadmap](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pNhOJdgmsGVs4ZkQ0YWc5Lw-focxY9Vei9RAnBqsMPU/edit#heading=h.ewp0732l5srn)
* Create a chart that showcases the “different condas”
* Package and environment manager? Bioconda? Conda-forge? Anaconda?
* [Scientific Packaging Glossary](https://jaimergp.github.io/scientific-packaging-glossary/)
* Content types
* How to create diagrams - Gimp, Inkscape, Google Slides?
* **Action Items**
* **ALL: Review the earlier [Roadmap](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pNhOJdgmsGVs4ZkQ0YWc5Lw-focxY9Vei9RAnBqsMPU/edit#heading=h.ewp0732l5srn), and Glossary.**
* **ALL: Add content/comments to the [content priority spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1niamLGSuTaQoNdsTSwkYTTdAe8Eh99X7_5Mbt6x0CJo/edit#gid=0)**
* **ALL: VOTE in priority spreadsheet**
* DC: Create [Root linking document in HackMD](https://hackmd.io/V6mHdS7iSuSHchEVjVjcKQ)
* DC: Create [Team space in HackMD](https://hackmd.io/team/conda-dot-org-content?nav=overview)
* DC: Create a copy of the Roadmap [outside of Quansight space](https://docs.google.com/document/d/106GLJ21ywETaPO1pMHURG4kkcA_ukWwWPUp8Bg3wIc0/edit#).
* **ALL: Start creating content.**