This weekend also led into some discussions and plans for improving our website and forum structures to make it easier for people to find their way around, and give us more flexibility for the future.
Software discussion:
@unteem and I met to discuss some issues with the various parts of oscedays.org and came up with some ideas to improve it. However, we need more input and ideas!
Here are a few of our feelings and assumptions, based upon our own experience and a few conversations with users:
General:
Design is not particularly clean or unified
No clear overview or signposting about how the website works overall, or the role of different tools.
Separate sign-in for each function is annoying, feels disjointed
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Forum structure discussion:
Hi @unteem @cameralibre and I met today in Berlin to find a new category structure for the forum. This is, what we came up with:
##Channels
###_Circular Textiles / Digital Manufacturing / Recycling / Reusing / + Some more … / Other
-> Those channels are for communication around subjects. What the Channels are we will find out by reviewing what was done last year and in the discussion below (see first reply).
-> Sketch for the text about „Choosing a Channel“: What if i have an education proj…