Online Community Working Group GitHub repo and project
The Online Community Working Group has introduced a new GitHub repository designed to manage and track ideas, suggestions, and improvements across Django's various online community platforms.
Introducing the Online Community Working Group Repository
Primarily inspired by the rollout of the New Features repository, the Online Community Working Group has launched their own version that works in conjunction with the Online Community Working Group Ideas GitHub project to provide a mechanism to gather feedback, suggestions, and ideas from across the online community and track their progression.
The primary aim is to help better align Django's presence across multiple online platforms by providing:
- Centralisation: A community-platform-agnostic place to collect feedback, suggestions, and ideas from members of any of Django's online communities.
- Visibility: With a variety of platforms in use across the community, some of which require an account before their content can even be read, discussions can happen in what effectively amount to private silos. This centralised repository allows all suggestions and ideas to be viewed by everybody, regardless of their community platform of choice.
- Consistency: A suggestion for one platform can often be a good idea for another. Issues and ideas raised centrally can be assessed against all platforms to better align Django's online community experience.
How to use the Online Community Working Group Repo
If you have an idea or a suggestion for any of Django's online community platforms (such as the Forum, Discord, or elsewhere), the process starts by creating an issue in the new repository.
You'll be asked to summarise the idea, and answer a couple of short questions regarding which platform it applies to and the rationale behind your idea.
The suggestion will be visible on the public board, and people will be able to react to the idea with emoji responses as a quick measure of support, or provide longer-form answers as comments on the issue.
The Online Community Working Group will review, triage, and respond to all suggestions, before deciding whether or how they can be implemented across the community.
Existing Online Communities
Note that we're not asking that you stop using any mechanisms in place within the particular community you're a part of currently—the Discord #suggestions channel is not going away, for example. However, we may ask that a suggestion or idea flagged within a particular platform be raised via this new GitHub repo instead, in order increase its visibility, apply it to multiple communities, or simply better track its resolution.
Conclusion
The Online Community Working Group was relatively recently set up, with the aim of improving the experience for members of all Django's communities online. This new repository takes a first step in that direction. Check out the repository at django/online-community-working-group on GitHub to learn more and start helping shape Django's truly excellent community presence online.
