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Design! #23

@adunkman

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@adunkman

I was walking this evening and got to thinking a bit about the message we’re trying to portray with this site, and how it should inform how we layout content and features. There were a few important things that I felt we want to stress:

  • We organize on Meetup, and we’d like people to join.
  • We have events regularly, and you should RSVP to them if you plan on coming.
  • We have a community that’s active outside of our events.
  • We’re a community that listens to what people have to say and are open to suggestions.
  • We’re a community that writes code, at all skill levels.

I feel like these fit pretty well into three categories:

Community
  • Stream of tweets from @nodedc.
  • IRC chat history and ability to drop into a conversation/ask a question to IRC from the site.
  • “Join the community on Meetup”-style button, maybe a summary of the group, a link to Events?
Code
  • We can help you learn to code.
  • We manage a number of projects on GitHub.
  • We have projects that members of our community maintain. This was a feature of the old GitHub pages site, and I’d like to see it come back:

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Events
  • An agenda-view list of upcoming events, including our meetups and important events in the surrounding community (I think it’d be nice to link to things that some/many of us may be attending, like NationJS). I’m imagining an intermingled list, with a quick summary and a call-to-action button that’s descriptive of the event type: “RSVP on Meetup”, “Buy Ticket”, etc.
  • “Don’t see the kind of event you’d like to attend?”-style way to submit ideas of both ideas for specific subjects of talks as well as types of events. The form should guilt the submitter a bit — say, include a checkbox that says “I’d be willing to speak about/lead this idea.”

Our homepage would be pretty simple — I love the animation that we have there now. I say we keep that, and add some really simple high-level hero-style message. Something like a short version of our twitter profile: “Friendly humans and robots that talk about Node.js and other things.”

I have a few ideas that might be better sketched, so I’m going to put some ink to paper and attach those shortly.

What do you think? Yes, you reading this. Drop a comment!

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