I’d still say the Community-category is a good fit. You could say the Community-category allows for a bit more informal “coffee-break-conversations”. Showing off your projects and discussing them with other Rioters would also fit that description.
We could make what currently is “Community” a sub-category “Events” of “Community” to reflect what “Community” is now, also merge “Tutorials & How-Tos” as a different subcategory into “Community” as well and add the “User Project/Showcase” as well. Like or thumbs-up if you agree.
i have trouble to parse your proposal. do you propose two
sub-categories Community->Events and Community->Tutorials&How-Tos?
personally, i would keep “Tutorials&How-Tos?” separated from the
Community category. there is a difference of explaining use cases or
technical details (e.g., how-to) compared to meta discussions about the
RIOT community.
Mhh, while 4. technically is the current status quo, it does not make much sense to me to add showcases to “Tutorials & Howtos”. Even if we rename it to something like “Tutorials, Howtos & Showcases” this sounds like clutter to me and putting things that do not really relate to each other in one box. Now that there is a set of options, I propose to make a poll.
There was some discussion on the topic and the only question remains: where to put the new (sub-)category. Four options were proposed so far, so let’s make a quick poll!
Attention: I swapped the original order by @Wosym to make more sense when read top to bottom.
The “User Projects/Showcase” category should be…
… a sub-category of Community (Community will then be split into two subcategories: “Events” and “Showcase Projects”)
… a subcategory of “Tutorials & How-Tos”
… a sub-category of Community (Community will then be split into two subcategories: “Events” and “Showcase Projects”), but also move “Tutorials & HowTos” to a subcategory of Community
My original idea was indeed to create a separate category.
I think putting it under Tutorials and HowTo’s could be nice as well, but I think it would give the impression that people would have to explain their project more.
I also think it would be weird to put it in Community. As events sound really different from Showcases.
Maybe an option would be to put Tutorials, Help and Showcases under a new category named Usage, to mirror development. But a new top-level category would be fine too
I remember while we discussed using a forum at the Riot Summit, I think Matthias found(created?) https://www.hackster.io/riot-os/, which in my opinion is also a good place to upload showcases and maybe link them to the forum. But I guess we should still have a place in this forum for this content.
That is even mentioned on our website. But as you already said: I think it does not hurt (in my opinion it even helps more) if we also collect these on one of our platforms, too.