Documentation landing page CTA (Call to action) - Your feedback is important

[jflory7 (Justin W. Wheeler (JWW))]

@hankuoffroad

How can we turn this into FOSS contributions?

In the Fedora home page, the most obvious and clear CTA is “Get Fedora” and “Download now”.

Join SIG and contributor guides are a few clicks away. However, these are not obvious to new visitors that we want them to contribute (how and where).

I suspect we need better on-ramps to get people started. If we could have a list of 10 docs issues that someone could start working on tomorrow, I think that would be a good foundation for building stronger calls-to-action.

@hankuoffroad

For an example,

• “Register” button (Fedora Account): Register with the Fedora Account
  – What benefits you will get from it?
• Join weekly meeting of your choice of work group or SIG
• Ask for a mentor

I confess that I attempted to tackle this challenge, but it became a lonely effort and I did not get very far with it:

Participate in the Fedora community

@pboy

In general, we need to bring “more action” and “more liveliness” to the homepage. At present, the page remains unchanged until the next release.

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And we need more indication that we are “living” and not just are around. Maybe on the opposite side of “Public Good” the next 1-2 ongoing activities: next team meeting, next social event, ongoing discussion about next flock, something like that. We have to arouse curiosity and “entice” people to “click for a quick look” and see what’s on.

One idea I had was using another service that could help us aggregate “good first issues” across multiple projects and repositories. I got a tip (I think from @siddharthvipul1) about this platform called Algora. I have not looked into it much, but it was on my homework pile for things to explore and check out.

Perhaps this could be a useful bridge for identifying our best entrypoints without having to build something new ourselves.

Algora: Open source bounties

[pboy (Peter Boy)]

@jflory7

Perhaps this could be a useful bridge for identifying our best entrypoints without having to build something new ourselves.

I had a short look. There is much about rewarding money, or at least is looks like that to me. But maybe we can use it or get some good ideas from it.

[hankuoffroad (hank)]

@jflory7

I confess that I attempted to tackle this challenge, but it becaforme a lonely effort and I did not get very far with it:

Did you bring the CTA up with the website team in the past?

On another note, I read a book about calls to action - Building a Storybrand by Donald Miller. I got enlightened with many ideas that need to be put in to action.