A "Package" Category

[christopher (Christopher Hlubek)]

We could create a separate Category to highlight / discuss Packages. This could be a simple and searchable list of community packages until we have something more sophisticated.

[sebastian (Sebastian Kurfuerst)]

Hey Christopher,

I was thinking of doing exactly that as part of “Showcases” - so not just showcasing final projects, but also open source packages But that’s open to discussion.

Greets, Sebastian

[christopher (Christopher Hlubek)]

Okay, I thought more about finished projects when reading “Showcases”. The “Package” category should be used to post 3rd party packages to act as a kind of listing until we have an official Package listing.

[sebastian (Sebastian Kurfuerst)]

Yeah. We can also do both categories fine for me!

[bwaidelich (Bastian Waidelich)]

+1 for two categories. What do you think of

• “Showcases” to present/discuss Neos/Flow Sites/Applications/Packages and
• “Project ideas” to collect/share ideas about (joint) packages?

(I would suggest not to limit this to “packages”)

[christopher (Christopher Hlubek)]

I’d suggest to just have a plain “Package” category. So it’s pretty easy to see the most relevant/hot 3rd party packages just by listing the topics. “Project ideas” sounds very broad for me.

[kdambekalns (Karsten Dambekalns)]

“Show & Tell” could be a good name for a combined category.

[sebastian (Sebastian Kurfuerst)]

I like “Show & Tell”!

To quote the initial Discourse guidelines on categories:

@Discourse Guidelines

Don’t create too many initial categories, as you can
overwhelm your audience. You can always add more categories, and easily
bulk recategorize topics later. It’s better to figure out the
organization as you go rather than assuming you’ll get it all right from
the beginning (hint: you won’t).

So that sounds to me to rather stard with less categories (i.e. one “Show&Tell”) first.

What do you think?

Greets,
Sebastian

[christopher (Christopher Hlubek)]

Okay, but then no “Showcase”, because it’s too similar to “Show & Tell” anyway.

[sebastian (Sebastian Kurfuerst)]

Hey,

what do you think about a “Showcase” category, where people can/should explain what they did with Flow or Neos? E.g. what was the project like, what were technical challenges, what went good and bad, how Neos/Flow helped archieve the challenge they were doing.

The showcase screenshots on the website are a good start, but as there are no technical details behind that at all, I thought it would be great to have a place where these details could be collected.

What do you think?
Greets, Sebastian

[dimaip (Dmitri Pisarev)]

Maybe call it “Case study”?

[brgmn (Martin Brüggemann)]

Looking forward to add our showcase projects!

[dfeyer (Dominique Feyer)]

Moltin use a channel on Slack called “Show & Tell” exactly for this purpose, nice that we end up with the same proposition.

[robert (Robert Lemke)]

I added this idea to my proposal for categories in this post:

Setting up categories for Discourse

Who would volunteer for thinking (really hard) about a category structure for Discourse and setting it up? We should make use of sub categories, for example creating a “Groups” category (I just did that), and then cautiously fit all relevant topics into sub categories. Don’t forget to take a look at the different use cases: a newbie, an experience site integrator, someone who starts helping with developing Neos itself, a designer, someone who is looking for a job, someone who wants to organise …