[associated vote ended on 2023-03-21] Community Plans part 1 - DNS & Website

[GregSutcliffe]

Summary

This is the first discussion space for the community strategy for the year ahead. It's a larger topic than easily fits into a GitHub issue, so rather than summarise it badly here, I'd ask that you read the two posts we've created - State of the Community 2023 and Community Strategy 2023 - before discussing/voting.

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As promised in the post conclusion, this is the first of two proposals, namely that the community should:

• Define & register a DNS zone for the community to use for all things relating the Ansible project
• Create a new website at the root of this zone to serve as a landing page, community voice, and signposting resource for the Ansible community

If approved, the next step would be to form a Working Group to implement both parts.

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[mariolenz]

It makes perfect sense to me to have a seperate DNS domain as the "home" of the Ansible community. You've suggested ansible.community which sounds like a rather good idea.

This would make it easier to distinguish between Ansible-the-Red-Hat-product and Ansible-the-Community. Additionally, it might give the community more freedom on the content and tools hosted there. As you say: ansible.com is Red Hat’s product site.

* Create a new website at the root of this zone to serve as a landing page, community voice, and signposting resource for the Ansible community

I see a lot of discussions on what content should stay where it is and what content should, at least in the long run, move to the new website (for example The Bullhorn). But those would be later steps. Let's start simple.

[GregSutcliffe]

Thanks for the positive feedback so far folks. The second recording from Contributor Summit is now up, so I've added to the top of the second post, but for those that have already read them (and are interested) you can find that here(YouTube)

[felixfontein]

👍 for ansible.community.

[AndreasDavour]

ansible.community isn't as succinct as ansible.com but it does get the message across.

[Ompragash]

❤️ for ansible.community

[chuckmilam]

I'm old enough to wince a little at these newfangled long TLDs. However, I agree a good delineation between "Ansible, the Red Hat product" and "Ansible, the community" would be of benefit.

Therefore, +1 for ansible.community

[maxamillion]

+1 for ansible.community

[briantist]

+1 for ansible.community

[jillr]

+1 for ansible.community

[gotmax23]

Should we start a vote on this?

[mariolenz]

Should we start a vote on this?

I think so. The reactions have been 100% positive here up until now, at least as far as I can see. Also, people seem to be fine with ansible.community (even if some people "wince a little at these newfangled long TLDs" 😆). So I suggest to vote on the DNS zone while we're at it, too.

My suggestion for a vote:

Register a DNS zone `ansible.community` for the community to use for all things relating the Ansible project. Create a new website at the root of this zone to serve as a landing page for the Ansible community.

Please vote with +1 to do this and -1 to keep things as they are (that is, keep using `ansible.com`).

Please don't use this vote for discussions, use #201 to do this.

@gotmax23 If you create a vote, feel free to improve this or to write up something completely new. It's just a suggestion ;-)