A redesign of the FOSS United landing page. The current site undersells the breadth of what FOSS United does - it reads like "an org that arranges events" when in reality it runs ~100 initiatives across learners, maintainers, and campaigns.
This redesign is one of the various ongoing attempts to fix that.
- index.html - Full landing page: event banner, hero, persona hooks, ecosystem overview (3-column programs breakdown), grants showcase, events, campaigns (Forklore, IROF, L2L), community marquee, FOSS stack, industry partners, updates, FOSS 101 teaser, newsletter, and footer.
- foss101.html - FOSS 101 page with 3 tabs: Our Story (5 narrative chapters), Learn FOSS (7 learning modules), and Resources (6 curated guides/tools).
The deeper thoughts on this is, as a first time visitor myself, I barely ever explored like 5-10% of all the work that is being done by Foss United, and the landing page largely can contribute to that.
We want to have a direct flow in our landing page that presents everything to the user and has subtle CTAs everywhere. It talks in narrative instead of direct buttons like those 4 'I am a student', ... buttons at the top. There is a banner for events at the very top like we discussed.
And there are various things like Everything We Do tab, our stack, our campaigns, our involvement in communities, etc etc.
One other thing we talked about is the problem of everything being very scattered and how the forum contributes more to the confusion than it does to clarity while entering the ecosystem and getting to know about things. For this, we can have a FOSS 101 page, where we have let's say 3 tabs like an OUR STORY tab, then a Learn FOSS, and a Resources tab.
This is directly inspired from a few things, one is the fact that having a text based narrative helps supporting and backing our claims on our landing pages with more weight. Secondly, it's inspired from Zerodha Varisty, which have like really cool module flows that help one flow through finance & trading lessons with full interest, thirdly by OWASP's threat modeling project's home page which has 3-4 tabs like these and it's practically all that one needs to be learning threat modeling as a whole.
This might take some time to develop and collect into a singular solid resource but it'd be an insanely helpful thing to have, linking this to a lot of places and following the content driven organic involvement of people.