Announcing Community Syncs on IPFS Website

[pkafei]

At IPFS we want to ensure that the broader community is aware of our wg syncs. Our website ipfs.io gets a decent amount of traffic and it would be ideal for us to announce our open community meetings on the ipfs.io homepage.

I'm in the process of creating a tool where the organizer of a wg sync will fill out the details of their call (time, speaker, etc) and the info will be placed in an announcement bar above the nav bar. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to architect this feature.

I'm not exactly sure what would be an ideal way for me to access and run a script in website/js/lib. @olizilla @alanshaw

[olizilla]

Happy to talk it through.

This relates to an issue that @daviddias brought up that is we need to show our Working Groups on the site too. I can't find that issue right now, @daviddias can you link?

[alanshaw]

Just an idea but could you add the info to the entry on the public IPFS community calendar and have the website pull it in dynamically?

[pkafei]

@olizilla I think you might be referring to the note taking issue and the sprint bot issue

Right now I have a version of a sprint bot that announces community syncs via Github Issues and I would like to add functionality where community sync organizers can announce their community call via a notification bar that will appear on ipfs.io.

[pkafei]

@alanshaw I've spent some time with the Hugo docs and pulling in data into ipfs.io via an api seems like the way to go. Initially, I'm going to pull from the Github API or Google API via a call function with a URL . The announcement bar will be populated with the data from API.

Then I'll write a scheduled task that will display the bar during a specific time interval (i.e. The IPFS Weekly Call announcement bar will appear every Monday between 16:00 UTC - 18:30 UTC). The scheduled task will most likely live in the lib folder.

In the future, the scheduled task could be used for other jobs such as pulling in the latest community sync videos.

[pkafei]

Do we want to include community sync times in Team info?

[daviddias]

Here is an idea. Given that the Sync's are weekly. What about putting them the WG list, so that it is easy to see when there is a sync of any WG. Like this:

[jessicaschilling]

Closing this issue, as it's being addressed in two other places:

1. Update to incorporate WG/SIG changes from June 2019 #327 (closes Hotfix: Team coordination links are broken #325) adds Zoom links for open calls to all WGs and SIGs that have them
2. Feature: Alert bar for IPFS  #289 includes the original work on potentially including an alert bar two hours before IPFS weekly call.