Webpage

[StorytellerCZ]

I think sooner or later a crossroad page will be needed. For now, I think a static page served from GitHub will be enough. I would like to use this issue as a discussion point to decide what should be there.

More down the line, I think it would be nice to use something like Utopian which could solve a few problems around funding and technical side of things.

[StorytellerCZ]

Repository for the website (for now):
https://github.com/Meteor-Community-Packages/website

Domain: meteorjs.community

[Falkovic1993]

Hey @StorytellerCZ,

Would love to help with whatever if you need a couple of extra hands, let me know.

[StorytellerCZ]

@Falkovic1993 Any help is welcomed. What is your area of interest?

[aogaili]

Great initiative @StorytellerCZ

Static website is a great start, I was thinking that it'd be useful to mimic the webpack site a bit. The meteor.com site is positioned more of an enterprise rather than open source project.

Regarding the name, I had meteor.js.org in mind or meteorjs.org but meteorjs.community however I personally think .org or js.org are more suitable since I foresee a longterm organization coming out of this (hopefully).

In terms of features I think the key is to the vote on features, list members, community packages. But here are more potential future ideas:

1. List core community members (people/or companies)
2. Allow voting on next roadmap items with an influencer system
3. Accept donation (that impact the influence points)
4. List core community packages
5. List recommended community resources scatter around the internet
6. The app/organization should be lean and easy to maintain going forward (meaning no need for for podcasts, or anything that takes a lot of manual time) since most of the folks on it will volunteer their time.

Finally, I'll add that there is potential for more generic product to help organize open source communities a bit.

[aogaili]

Even the repo name I think could be made more generic, something like meteororg instead of community packages if we want the long-term vision to have an open organization supporting meteor.

[StorytellerCZ]

@aliogaili Thanks for the ideas. Regarding name and heading I think we will stick with this until we can get a bit more off the ground. That is a topic for #1 .
I like the idea of meteor.js.org. Though that seems to be only for static GitHub hosted websites, which could limit us in the future.
I will deploy the static placeholder website for now.

[aogaili]

Yes that was my concern with meteor.js.org as well, it seems static only. Although webpack uses it and they seem to have some dynamic features (like voting, auth) going.

[StorytellerCZ]

Interesting. Well I just started experimenting with this static site thing, so there is a lot for me to learn. If feasible then I will expand on the current page more.

[StorytellerCZ]

Since we now have a dedicated repository for the website, let's move the discussion there.
https://github.com/Meteor-Community-Packages/website