Notes from WG Day

[jemgillam]

There are some people here at WG Day discussing community matters.
Here's some notes

[jemgillam]

Ambassador and social media hub

Idea: There should be a hub at a graphql.org subdomain for Ambassadors to share their content, plus a place to share back videos from Ambassador meetings

• Three streams:
  -- Content which needs to be reviewed by TSC
  -- Content which doesn't need to be reviewed (eg an event write up) but is to be shared
  -- Content from eg Ambassador meetings which is recorded and for sharing internally with Ambassador / TSC team

• This could also be used for the social media team to share links, cf Draft Content Hub #158

• Can Discord authentication be used to power user management on hub? The permissions are already baked in. However, there are companies where Discord is entirely blocked

[salome-ruckstuhl]

User Rights

Topic	Detail	Admin	TSC / Board	Ambassador	Community
Content	Upload content proposal	x	x	x
Content	Review content proposal	x	x
Content	Publish content	x	x
Content	View content	x	x	x	x
Restricted	Upload restricted content	x	x
Restricted	View restricted content	x	x	x
Meetups	Add Meetup link	x	x	x	x
Social posts	Add social post proposal to hub	x	x	x	x
Social posts	review & plan social post proposals on typefully	x	x

[jemgillam]

[rstata]

i don't understand what we're trying to build here. i'm going to take a guess, please correct me:

looking at http://graphql.org , there are many places where community members might want to contribute content, including meetups and events, blog posts, content for the Learn section, and so forth. right now the process for getting content into that site is painful and very git-oriented. we want to build a content-management system that makes it easier for the broader community to submit content to be published at graphql.org, and for the maintainers of that site (admins, tsc, board) to approve that content and get it published.

is this the goal? or is it something else?

[jeanlucaslima]

@rstata and others, this is my current understanding, with some room for interpretation.

I’m intentionally going a bit beyond what should be a first version because I think we should separate what the hub could become from what we build first.

I do not think this is only "a CMS for graphql.org". That is but only one output, the broader idea is a community hub for GraphQL: identity, roles, content, ambassadors, local groups, reviews, publishing, static pages, swag, and eventually governance/budget workflows.

One motivation is community self-sufficiency. The goal is not to replace every external tool, but to avoid having core community workflows depend too heavily on systems we do not fully shape.

The hub could become the place where community identity, content, permissions, decisions, and operational history are owned and organized by the community itself.

                         ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                         │                              hub.graphql.org                             │
                         └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

┌──────────────┐     ┌────────────────────────────┐     ┌──────────────────────────────┐     ┌──────────────────────────────┐
│    Users     │────▶│ Identity / Community Graph │────▶│           Core Hub           │────▶│     Output / Publishing       │
└──────────────┘     └────────────────────────────┘     └──────────────────────────────┘     └──────────────┬───────────────┘
                         ▲              ▲                         ▲              ▲                          │
                         │              │                         │              │                          ▼
                         │              │                         │              │                ┌──────────────────────┐
                  ┌──────┘              └──────┐          ┌───────┘              └───────┐        │   Social Channels    │
                  │                            │          │                              │        │   via Typefully only │
                  ▼                            ▼          ▼                              ▼        └──────────────────────┘
          ┌──────────────┐             ┌──────────────┐  ┌──────────────┐       ┌──────────────┐
          │ Auth / ToC   │             │ Discord      │  │ Content      │       │ Static Pages │
          │ EasyCLA      │             │ Roles / Tags │  │ Review       │       │ SEO / GEO    │
          └──────────────┘             └──────────────┘  └──────────────┘       └──────────────┘

          ┌──────────────┐             ┌──────────────┐  ┌──────────────┐       ┌──────────────┐
          │ GitHub / LF  │             │ Local Groups │  │ Events       │       │ Ambassador   │
          │ Identity     │             │ Channels     │  │ Meetups      │       │ Swag         │
          └──────────────┘             └──────────────┘  └──────────────┘       └──────────────┘

                                                        ┌──────────────┐       ┌──────────────┐
                                                        │ Governance   │       │ Decisions /  │
                                                        │ Budget Ops   │       │ Public Record│
                                                        └──────────────┘       └──────────────┘