The Eclipse IoT website redesign is now live! This project was a huge undertaking for us; we added 5,245 lines of code, closed 15 issues, removed 82,361 lines of code and made 84 commits.
Yes, you got that right, the end result was -77,116 lines of code because we took the opportunity to clean up our codebase.
To kickoff this initiative, the community help us define the goals for this project:
- Improve our information architecture:
Led by Frédéric Desbiens, the Eclipse IoT community created a new structure for the website. - Contribute to the recruitment of new members and adopters:
Adopters and Members are now top-level menu items. We also created a new “How to be Listed as an Adopter” page. - Ensure the website cathers to both technical and non-technical visitors:
We made some big improvements to our Community and Resources sections. These sections cathers to both technical and non-technical users since you can find Case-Studies, Market Reports, Videos, White Papers and some additional information on how you can stay informed about what’s currently going on with Eclipse IoT. - Drive adoption for our technologies:
We now fetch project information from the Eclipse PMI each time we push a change to the website. Our stale project page is now a thing of the past!
In an effort to communicate our project plans with our community, we created a public GitHub project with two milestones.
Being open and transparent allows us to natually inform our communities about our efforts and we think it’s a great way for us to collaborate and share tasks. As the project manager, this workflow allows me to ensure that the project is moving forward as planned.
We also created a set of brand guidelines for the Eclipse IoT Working Group. These guidelines include the brand font (Roboto), logo variations, color swatches, and acceptable logo treatments. This will help us consistently deploy the brand across different digital and print channels as well as Eclipse IoT events.
Overall, I am very happy with this new redesign! A huge thank you to Eric Poirier, Matt Joanisse, a graphic designer hired by the Foundation to work on the site, Christie Witt, Joe Speed, Frédéric Desbiens and Martin Lowe!