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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)
    * 
* 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.**