How should the levels of government be laid out

[nschonni]

Not to promote silos but ...
There is currently a slight disconnect with US splitting between Federal, State, county, and City vs. the rest of the world.

1. Each country splitting between levels (with separate h2's and grids?)
   • Country/Federal
     • Country A
   • State/Province
     • Washington
     • Ontario
   • City/County
     • ...
2. Country as the high level
   • US
     • Federal
       • ...
     • State

[afeld]

While it's good to recognize this structure, I don't know that it covers the full range, either. See #21.

I imagine that, down the road, it would be nice to have some sort of tagging/filtering system for level, location, and maybe even focus of the organization.

[nschonni]

No, it's definitely not an exhaustive list, but just 2 possible top level headings. The civic hacker folks may want some distinct levels too ...
Maybe use something like DataTables for a sortable view http://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/demos/tables/tables-en.html#inisort

[jlord]

I'm definitely learning it's a lot more complex than how we organized it originally. Agree @nschonni that we may end up needing to make distinctions between civic hackers, too.

Let's keep watching as groups trickle in and definitely dream up a better way to showcase all the orgs.

[benbalter]

Now's definitely the right time to start this discussion, although I'd think we'd want to hold off a bit before making any changes. The question I keep asking is "what are we trying to solve for?"

• Help like-minded organizations to find each other
• Help citizens to quickly and easily find organizations relevant to their location / interests
• Make an extremely powerful graphic / statement about the strength of open source in government
• Keep it as simple as possible for non-technical contributors to add their name to the list
• (and don't want to promote silos as @nschonni pointed out)

I was thinking initially that top level should be country, and subdivide from there, but spaces + YML is going to be a big headache for the uninitiated.

Only reason US is split up like it is, is just because of size, which I immagine civic hackers may soon need to be split as well.

[smathermather]

Added Special District in order to add Cleveland Metroparks, which I know isn't common, but we didn't fit in any other category. "Local" might be a more flexible category.

[nschonni]

💡 like #101 we could add a folder with specific frontmatter

prose:
  media: "images"
  metadata:
    _orgs:
      - name: "layout"
        field:
          element: "hidden"
          value: "org"
      - name: "github"
        field:
          element: "text"
          label: "GitHub org"
          value: ""
          type: "text"
      - name: "fullname"
        field:
          element: "text"
          label: "Full Name"
          value: ""
          type: "text"
      - name: "description"
        field:
          element: "textarea"
          label: "Description"
          value: ""
      - name: "categories"
        field:
          element: "multiselect"
          label: "Org Type"
          placeholder: "Create or choose"
          options:
            - name: "Federal Government"
              value: "fed"
            - name: "Civic Hacker"
              value: "civic"
            - name: "City"
              value: "city"
      - name: "country"
        field:
          element: "multiselect"
          label: "Country"
          placeholder: "Create or choose"
          options:
            - name: "United States"
              value: "fed"
            - name: "Canada"
              value: "canada"
          alterable: true

I think using a JSON file for the Countries would make more sense https://github.com/prose/prose/wiki/Prose-Configuration#select--multiselect

[patcon]

Just to reopen this, how about this?

• national federal level.
• subnational^[1] anything at state, province, in-between
• local city, town, whatever. (h/t @smathermather 🙂 )

fwiw subnational is already used by Open Gov Partnership^[2]

References

1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/553705/naming-convention-for-state-region-province
2. https://www.opengovpartnership.org/subnational-government-pilot-program

[patcon]

And lastly, could be optional. array below country, the renders like current, but if it's hash, new render type