[Development] A face for the Qt Project

[Carl Schwan]

> Dear community,
>
> The Qt Project is a huge effort from many people, and for the same
> reason, it's quite interesting to (1) Learn how to contribute and be
> part of it, and (2) Analyze the interactions of the many
> Qt modules.
>
> For people new to the project, contributing to Qt might be challenging,
> but I'm certain we all agree that being clear, and provide all the
> information in one place is crucial to at least enable them to do
> the first step.
>
> On the other hand, if you have been around for a while,
> you know that Thiago's blog has a good set of statistics [1]
> that helps a lot to get an overview of the current state of the project.
>
> With these two ideas in mind, it makes sense to use qt-project.org
> as the face of the Qt Project, highlighting the two previous points
> I described.
>
> I would like to ask the community, if we are in favor of using
> the proposal from [2] as qt-project.org.
>
> The goal will be to have this repository under our open governance,
> so anyone will be able to suggest changes, as we do in Qt.
>
> The idea will be not to duplicate content from https://qt.io,
> but focus on aspects related to contributing to the project.

I really like the idea and I think your implementation is very good
at giving an overview of the community and how to get involved. So +1
from me :)

># About the implementation
>
> The page you can see on [2] was generated with Dash,
> a Python module based on Plotly [3], and the data comes from the
> meta qt5.git repository, including also the qt-creator and pyside-setup
> ones.
>
> The text you see on the left-side cards, comes from local Markdown
> files, so also it would be straightforward to edit them.
>
> I will upload the code if the community agrees to go forward,
> so then we could be able to create a public repository to keep
> this code.

I didn't knew about Dash, this looks like a very nice python tool
to work with. When you release the code, I could try to see if I could
implement something similar for KDE.

Cheers,

--
Carl Schwan
https://carlschwan.eu
KDE developer and maintainer of the KDE websites

>
> Cheers
>
>
> [1] https://www.macieira.org/blog/qt-stats/
> [2] https://qt-project-org.herokuapp.com
> [3] https://dash.plotly.com/
>
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