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Planning/Brainstorming doc for community.apache.org website.  We have some newfound energy to improve the website, so it can be a truly useful resource to any kind of newcomer to the ASF or our projects.

Guiding Principles

ComDev is advisory. We recommend best practice. We offer advice. We provide resources. We do not enforce our opinions, nor do we have any authority to compel projects to do anything. In the rare case that we deem a project is off the rails in some aspect, our only option is to make a recommendation to the board.

As such, this site constitutes advice  and best practice, while policy  should be on the main apache.org site, or on the site of the specific VP (eg, Legal, Trademarks) who is responsible for that policy. Any time we find ourselves veering into "you must" rather than "you should", we should identify the top-level policy page that already addresses that topic.

TODO

• TODO Purge ancient/outdated content
  • Mentoring - we do not (currently) have a mentoring program
    • Perhaps note that some projects/other areas might have mentoring programs?
    • Delete content around a mentoring program
    • Move stuff that's actually about GSoC under GSoC
  • Remove mentions of 'helpwanted' service (Done)
  • Remove references to speaker program (Unless someone wants to make that actually a thing)
  • Remove references to community.zones.apache.org
    • Find out what that is (is it a VM?) and drop it.  (Note: it still technically works with the map, but isn't useful, so agreed to decomission)
  • About half of the files at the top-level of the site
    • comdevboardreports.md
    • newsletter (Two editions, back in 2017. Seemed like a good idea at the time, but didn't last.)
    • calendars/ (This content is a duplicate of events.apache.org) (links to it removed; still need to clean content)

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