Eventbrite has multiple methods to allow users to register for events directly on a host site. Our site meets the technical requirements, so I suggest we look into it: https://www.eventbrite.com/support/articles/en_US/Troubleshooting/Which-website-integration-is-right-for-me?lg=en_US

Just stumbled onto this one: http://www.igdatc.org/global-game-jam-2012/ Kind of a lot of content there.

This could just get added to the event post here: https://igdatc.github.io/events/main-meeting/2012/02/08/ggj_recaps.html

Originally posted by @mgrider in #6 (comment)

The home page should be a little more jazzy, with a hero banner photo or other styling in order to show the character of the community/organization. It should also include:

• A general overview of the organization and its mission
• A mention of the "open membership" policy
• A solid pitch for people to participate/get involved (with links showing how).

A person visiting for the first time should be able to know if they are in the right place for them without having to click around.

For additional jazz, the home page could also include:

• YouTube embed of latest meeting
• Twitch embed (active during live events, inactive otherwise?)
• Latest tweets (from @igdatc and/or @MNgamedev_bot)
• Direct link to next igdatc event (can this be automated?) and/or calendar widget.

Dreamhost is currently our registrar. We need to examine what we could change to and make it happen.

Add info for Twin Cities Playtest to the site, on it's own page, in the main menu, and the blurb on the home page.

We really don't want the site to be a blog, but there should be some way to post timely information and a way to keep a record of it. For example, when we announce a GGJ site, add a new monthly event, change a policy, or (what got me thinking about this) our statement supporting Black Lives Matter, which is not on the site.

We should have more documentation on how people can participate in the creation and maintenance of this website. There are two ways we should have more documentation on.

1. Github as a CMS. Creating event and maybe other kinds of ducuments through the github interface.
2. Local Jekyll development. For advanced users. Pulling the repo, branching code, developing and running the software locally, and opening pull requests.

I think we should come up with some rules for how we decide what links are appropriate for our "Developer Directory". My goal is for these links to go to active, relevant material.

Here are some suggestions:

• Must not be "under construction"
• Must resolve without redirection
• Must be relevant to the subject of game development

The Eventbrite page linked in the "events" drop down menu is crazy oldschool. Most recent are from 2011.

Remove this link?

asdf

There are multiple spacing issues on this page:
https://igdatc.github.io/events/main-meeting/2020/01/22/watchmen_ar.html

• The large image has no margin underneath.
• The sections don't appear to have enough spacing between them.

• The items listed on the history page should include what type of event it is, perhaps with the ability to sort by event type.
• The YouTube embed for April 2020's main meeting is missing from its page.
• The YouTube embed for March 2020's VR+HCI meeting (if one exists) is missing from its page.
• Twin Cities Playtest events are not listed.

Let's figure out who can make issues and make sure it's as open as we want it to be.

We should go through all existing content.

The text copy on the pages for the Monthly Meeting and VR+HCI are out of date. I previously updated the descriptions for each event and pinned them to the #event-info channel of the Twin Cities Gamedev Discord.

Neither /about or /faq are linked anywhere anymore. I'm thinking we remove /about and redirect to the home page. I'm thinking the same thing for /faq, but I'm less certain. Maybe someone wants to retain that info and link it somewhere.

This is (can be) an accessibility issue.

Looks pretty easy to implement: https://codehandbook.org/implement-dark-background-mode-css/

• in the nav
• on the homepage
• on all the other pages
• but NOT on the old event (history) pages

We should have a simple form for users to submit an item to the directory from the directory page, ideally with a one-click approval process to prevent spam, duplicates, misspellings, etc.

This would lower the barrier to entry (currently people are asked to visit the "connect with us" page) and make it more likely that the directory will stay updated.

This would be a simple issue for a full-featured CMS, but I'm sure we can come up with something.

The About page should include current and past board members, information on the board member election process (once finalized) and other dry, authoritative organizational details such as technical non-profit status, IGDA parent org details, etc.

I do not know if we need full bios or portraits of board members. An argument against is that it's work to create and maintain, but an argument for is that it might be useful for members to see that info, for current board members at least. Otherwise, a website, Twitter, or email contact link might suffice.

The home page should include direct links to igdatc on:

• Twitch
• YouTube
• Discord
• Slack
• Twitter
• email

Ideally, these should be menu items (or svg icons with ALT tags) that appear on every page. They shouldn't be buried in "connect with us."

...

Also, the size of the image should probably be controlled by CSS as well. (Ideally, to fit the screen width somehow. I'm sure this is possible.)

Originally posted by @mgrider in #12 (comment)

General
The headers should be links.
Icons would be nice.

MSP GameDev Slack
This copy should reflect that "requesting an invite" means you will automatically get one. The way it reads now it seems like there's an approval process. Changing it to simply "click here to join" or similar would be an improvement.

Also, the header should be re-titled just "Slack" to align with the format of the other headers.

Discord
The "if slack is not your thing" phrasing doesn't reflect the purpose of Slack or the Discord. They are not competitors (or rather, we don't want them to be, even if, yeah, it feels like that sometimes).

IGDA Parent Organization
This link starts a recursion loop.

Ice Cold Games
This site is no longer being updated. Its directory serves the same function as the one on this site. Either we do not need to link to it any more, or we should remove duplicated information from this site and point people to Ice Cold Games for that information.

Facebook
We should remove this link from the site. We don't use it, and anyone who finds us there will see the very helpful "we don't use this" message directing to other sources. There's no reason to send people there on purpose.

A list from Marty:

• improved homepage design / layout with:
  • main info about both meetings above the fold
  • contact info easily accessible
  • new menu that includes a link to blog posts
  • no blog posts themselves on the homepage
• redesigned wordpress theme
  • cleaner look, incorporating the new IGDA logo
  • possibly (hopefully) based on, or even using, one of the official wordpress themes (stylesheet changes can go a long way!)
• re-thought-out information architecture
  • ideally all existing pages considered (some of them might not be necessary)
  • re-designed nav to make everything accessible, but maybe not at the top level
  • categories of blog posts considered too, we need to decide if we want to jettison (ie, delete) blog posts that were just links to eventbrite (see next topic)
• expanded/updated history page
  • ideally this would replace the blog posts we have now for each meeting (at least some meetings are missing because this was never consistent)
  • we will need to pull content from either (both) blog posts or eventbrite posts
  • ideally summaries of each meeting, but maybe just dates with expand/collapse for full info(?)
• navigation that includes a link to every page

Eventually, I want to get all the content from Eventbrite into the site in the form of "blog posts" (tagged/categorized appropriately).

Jekyll has a tool that you can run for wordpress import. Probably worth playing with it: https://import.jekyllrb.com/docs/wordpressdotcom/

Basically "should we do this?"

There are a few pre-existing meetings from years ago up on youtube. Zach J. has one that I think Ryan Foss uploaded. More recently, the July VR & HCI meeting is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfyOH-aR_zY

We could embed those in their respective meeting "history" pages. But should we? Alternatively, we could just link out to them.

Since we aren't currently scheduling those events, it should definitely get removed from the nav. The page itself could get archived somehow maybe, (relegated to some historical part of the site?), or just removed entirely.

The 404 page says 404 twice, because it heard you like 404 in your 404...

New board members should be added. Resize Beth's photo.

At the very least, the link should get updated. (Looks like the new location is https://youtube.com/igdatc)

Probably a good idea to make it easier to find. Maybe get rid of the twitch link on that page since twitch is no longer the place to look for event streams?

In general, the content on these pages are duplicated from other pages, or contains information that is missing from other pages. The content on both, perhaps even the format of the FAQ page, could be repurposed by moving them onto the home page where more people will see it.

It's been decided that redirecting is not enough and these should be deleted.

Here's github's help page on the topic: https://help.github.com/en/articles/using-a-custom-domain-with-github-pages

We will have to decide at what point we are ready to do this. I think there's all the blog content to port first. (I feel certain we can find a script somewhere to do them all at once.)