Content on 'Value and impact' may not fit in /activities/

[bvhme]

@Ainali mentioned that 'Value and Impact' is not really an activity.

What is this and where should it go? I'm a bit at a loss, so I don't have an immediate proposed solution.

[lscheske]

I agree that "Value & Impact" are not activities and may be best located somewhere else. They are more on the level of mission statements and justify why we exist. I see two possible locations:

• A lot of this content should (and will) be reflected on the website (publiccode.net)
• It would be well placed on the About landing page, as a new point under "Information & Processes"

[ElenaFdR]

'Measuring our value and impact' is an activity we will need at some point.

[bvhme]

Definetely, it is however not really aligned with the current content of that 'activity' folder as I understand it which is more 'mapping of value and impact'.

They could be under /organization/value-propositions/ or something.

[clausmullie]

Personally I don't think the pages under the value heading fitinto /organization/, as this is not about our organisation, how we are structured/organised, or something we define/decided about ourselves. It is more of a mapping/tracking/measuring/research activity that we do about how other people perceive the the value of our work. I would see things like 'approaches to making business cases for stewardship' fit on this page.

My sense is that the all press page should be moved from About/ to publiccode.net/, as per issue #52, and the policy documents likewise, as per issue #205.

The sustainable development goals could then either move to /organization/ if they are a conscientious goal of ours, or publiccode.net/ if this page is a marketing asset.

[bvhme]

Great observations @clausmullie. I think you're right on this.

I think a part of the value proposition is probably policy, so can live under something like /organization/ whilst part of it is organizational development (which might be an activitiy) and part is storytelling (which is more for <publiccode.net>)

In addition, I think it is totally fine for things like conscientious goals of ours to live in both /organization/, where we describe it as policy for our own organization and on publiccode.net where we try to explain it to the world. I think you most often see this in organizations, albeit usually not both open.

[clausmullie]

Jan and I would like to propose the following fix for this issue.

Our thinking is that:

• anything which shows proven impact/mention should be on the marketing site
• anything which is an activity can go straight into the activities index
• the value/impact umbrella is no longer needed

Actions to be taken inlcude:

• Content from press.md should move to publiccode.net
• Policy documents that mention and refer to the Foundation for Public Code should move to publiccode.net
• sustainable-development-goals.md should move to the bullet point list "This is how we approach our work:" in /organization/
• Turn /user-mapping/ into own activitiy on about/activities/
• Turn /pain-points/ into own activity on about/activities/ (perhaps changing name to Understanding our users)
• Remove value-impact page
• Care should be taken to ensure all redirects are in place

Surfaced in #1083:

• consider whether activities/value-impact/index.md should redirect to activities/understanding-our-users (has dependency on moving the press and policy documents out)

@ericherman and @bvhme what are your thoughts on this?

[ericherman]

Jan and I would like to propose the following fix for this issue.

This is a very good plan.

[ericherman]

@Ainali @clausmullie is enough done here to close this issue?

[Ainali]

@Ainali @clausmullie is enough done here to close this issue?

I still think we should do the identified things that are unchecked. This issue has only been deprioritized due to other more urgent matters.

[clausmullie]

This work is dependent on getting the publiccode.net revamp work done first, so that we have a place where we can move things to (ie the press page)