Want to work on a homepage site redesign?

I think this is great @adamghill ! Already it’s definitely an upgrade over the existing one, which is old, so nothing against its design that has held up for so long.

I really like how you have a quick start on there to emphasize how quick it is to get started. I think I’m probably too close to this, since I worked with @carltongibson and @pauloxnet to help with the 20tab work @jacobian mentioned, but I’ll just add here my own list of things to consider, as well:

  • Sponsor logos vs companies using it? Every other framework does this. Something to help the fundraising groups etc since companies, beyond the goodness in their hearts, their marketing department wants to know, if we donate $100k does that mean XYZ million views from the homepage?
  • Related and something @jacobian and I discussed with others at DjangoCon US was that we need some kind of anonymized, non-US-based analytics for djangoproject.com so we can both give numbers to sponsors and also have some internal visibility into which pages get traffic and which do not. For example, the new Ecosystem page is wonderful, but hard to find.
  • Love how you have APIs on the homepage. I think we could also add CRM (Wagtail, Django-CMS). And in my perfect world, “something” around AI and how Django fits with it, though that’s a reach and more than likely want to chew off.

Anyway, apologies for the brain dump. I find this super exciting. And I think the way forward is for you and a small (very small) group to come up with your best version and then we all can go from there!

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