Help wanted: getting the website editable by mere mortals

[Matt Sicker <bo...@gmail.com>]

Hello everyone! I took a look at our site today to see about adding
some of the great info that's already been published from the
community survey and other research done to date. However, I came
across a couple issues:

1. Most of the reports are PDFs. The best I can do here is to upload
them to the site and directly link to them. If the original PDFs were
generated from another file format, it's possible that HTML formats
could potentially also be exported.
2. We also have a Google Doc. It's mostly graphics and tables, but it
might export to HTML decently.
3. The current website is done manually via HTML. While I do
understand HTML and can write markup fine, this isn't very usable for
anyone else here who might otherwise be able to edit the site by
simply using the GitHub web UI to modify, say, markdown or asciidoc
files. As I'm not a designer, but I do tend to shave yaks whenever I
work on side projects, I still don't think I'd be able to reasonably
bootstrap this website in any reasonable time (way outside my usual
area of expertise, but not impossible by any means). If someone can
help get the site to a "Lorem Ipsum" state, then I could start filling
out the site with existing and some new content.

Fwd: Help wanted: getting the website editable by mere mortals

[Craig Russell <ap...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

The web site is diversity.apache.org and it probably needs a page or two of asciidoc and a little .asf.yaml and maybe a GitHub action or two.

Anyone interested in volunteering? Reply on dev@diversity.apache.org. 
https://lists.apache.org/list.html?dev@diversity.apache.org

Thanks,
Craig

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Matt Sicker <bo...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Help wanted: getting the website editable by mere mortals
> Date: March 28, 2021 at 5:26:55 PM PDT
> To: dev@diversity.apache.org
> Reply-To: dev@diversity.apache.org
> 
> Hello everyone! I took a look at our site today to see about adding
> some of the great info that's already been published from the
> community survey and other research done to date. However, I came
> across a couple issues:
> 
> 1. Most of the reports are PDFs. The best I can do here is to upload
> them to the site and directly link to them. If the original PDFs were
> generated from another file format, it's possible that HTML formats
> could potentially also be exported.
> 2. We also have a Google Doc. It's mostly graphics and tables, but it
> might export to HTML decently.
> 3. The current website is done manually via HTML. While I do
> understand HTML and can write markup fine, this isn't very usable for
> anyone else here who might otherwise be able to edit the site by
> simply using the GitHub web UI to modify, say, markdown or asciidoc
> files. As I'm not a designer, but I do tend to shave yaks whenever I
> work on side projects, I still don't think I'd be able to reasonably
> bootstrap this website in any reasonable time (way outside my usual
> area of expertise, but not impossible by any means). If someone can
> help get the site to a "Lorem Ipsum" state, then I could start filling
> out the site with existing and some new content.

Craig L Russell
clr@apache.org