Discoverability of examples and resources

[sonichi]

There are many interesting examples and resources from discord, twitter, linkedin, medium, youtube, reddit, github. How do we make it easier to discover them from our website?

@qingyun-wu @skzhang1 @gagb @ekzhu @JingyaChen

[skzhang1]

I believe the main bottleneck is that Autogen web doesn’t collect enough applications for users to search on the website timely. The maintainers may overlook some applications and are unable to update the web page in a timely manner, given the large number of applications on the website.

To address this issue, I suggest moving the “contribution” page to the navbar near the “Resources” tab. Then, we provide a specific tutorial on the “contribution” page to encourage users to enrich the “ecosystem” page using their own examples. If we only rely on maintainers, it will not be timely.

[skzhang1]

docusaurus also rely on users to upload their own sites.
https://docusaurus.io/showcase

[sonichi]

We should certainly encourage everyone to contribute. But how do we bootstrap?
Also, the "ecosystem" page is different from examples.

[qingyun-wu]

How about adding a "Gallery" sub-tab under the "Resources" tab (in addition to "Ecosystem" and "Playground"), to include a curated list of tools and projects using AutoGen, and tutorials on how to use AutoGen.

We can create this page and add some initial ones to bootstrap and, at the same time, encourage others to add more via PRs.

What do you think? @sonichi @skzhang1

[sonichi]

Sounds good to me.

[victordibia]

@skzhang1 @qingyun-wu, @sonichi and team, thanks for all the work on a bootstrapped gallery.
I agree with all the ideas to far, and happy to see all the progress coming together in #850 .

I'd love to continue to work together with you all on a few things we can do (not urgent) to further improve the website for better community interaction. Some examples

• upgrade the docs to docusaurus 3.0 (v 2.4.3), to take advantage of recent advances in the library (we seem to be on v 0.0.0-4193).
• explore an updated template for better information presentation. For example, something like dyte (screenshot below)
• any other ideas

I am happy to help provide guidance and help along the way.

What do you all think?

Thanks again for all the awesome work here @skzhang1

[sonichi]

The idea of allowing reactions is great :)