Tracker: 2025 OpenVis Website Refresh

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We are refreshing the website for early 2025

• Integrate https://vis.gl
• Modernize content / organization / styling
• Prepare for additional projects potentially joining in the future

Tasks

• Restructure site / project list to prepare for additional projects joining in the future. @ilyabo
• Make sure all current vis.gl contents is covered here or in other sites. @ibgreen
• Redirect vis.gl domain to vis.gl content on this site. Ben
• Move vis.gl YAML files to prismic CMS - TBD
• Update README in vis.gl website repo to explain new status - @ibgreen
• Copy https://vis.gl site and content to this site @ibgreen
• Unify styling vis.gl vs openvis websites @ilyabo
• Unbreak prismic CMS integration @ilyabo
• Clean up projects page @ibgreen @ilyabo (see ideas section below)

Punch List

• Summits - Use group photos as captions for each summit, instead of green backdrops
• Unify home page and about page - both are not needed
• Get involved - separate from home page. Add separate section about how to get involved as a user, contributor, and also mention the option to transfer an existing open source project into OpenJS?
• About page - image cuts off some attendees from the London event... Also, add a caption, maybe A mix of open visualization maintainers and users meeting in London at the 2024 open visualization summit
• About page - Contributor Section / Wrong old Foursquare logo @ilyabo
• About page - Contributor Section / Find a way to highlight the real, active contributors more
• Front page / initial text block: Emphasize GPU / WebGPU (not WebGL), more clearly separate mission statements from governance collaboration space sentence. (@ibgreen )
• Project page - List view for projects page? The card view looks good but is overwhelming, and it is hard to get a sense for all the projects and also linking out to each projects site.
• Project page - Unique project images for projects page @ibgreen
• Blog/News - Move OpenJS blog posts from news to blog @ibgreen

Ideas for next refresh

• Use case based entry points / organization (geospatial, microbiology, infovis/ai/ml)