Whew!
I’ve been a busy person this past year and I want to apologize for being semi-afk (or AWOL depending on your point of view ).
The Website
I recently had to update a link for the Lightzone project on the main website and @darix was kind enough to remind me that I needed to get off my arse and finish the Hugo migration and redesign of the website. I had made some good headway on a new design a few months back and then life hit me.
So I’m revisiting the site redesign again as I’m already working on some other web projects already anyway.
As a way to shame myself into actually getting the job done I’m posting about it here in the hopes that shame avoidance might be a good motivator.
To double down on that I’ve been thinking a little about the website.
It’s languishing a bit without fresh content.
The Content
I mean, we have the forums and there’s a ton of great activity here, of course, but Ideally I’d like to start publishing more articles, news, and even smaller blog-type posts on the main website.
So, do i have any interested takers in committing to writing some more content with me?
I’m really looking for any good content that we think the general community might be interested in. This can include, but is certainly not limited to:
- Showcase and/or critique (or just sharing) of great photographs - preferably from the community but in general is fine as well.
- Tutorials - self explanatory.
- Reviews of software/hardware and thoughts on them.
- Editorials - general posts related to the community in some way.
I know there are some of you that produce a TON of content and if you’re willing to, I’d love to amplify those contributors and their work.
Ideally we could have a queue of posts in the pipeline and try to get new content out on a (semi) regular schedule. Things like @rstein and the classic Meet the GIMP work he did/does for a long time. Finally getting @dmpop even more exposure. Not to mention others like @Andy_Astbury1 and @s7habo! Of course @betazoid and resurrecting the regular group meetings would be nice also.
Let me know what y’all think (and be as open/free with your thoughts as you’d like - not going to hurt my feelings over here).
I’m probably going to rope in the @moderators for help with content editor duties as well if they’re available for opinions/input.
I’ll also ping @darix and see about getting a CI/CD build for the new hugo branch of the website so we can have something fun to critique (maybe staging.pixls.us).
Thoughts?