Problem
The homepage's content/home/5-achievements.md section (just rebuilt visually in #814, replacing a yearly-regenerated infographic image with a CSS-based list) still carries its old content, which is a mix of:
- Vanity/activity metrics — social followers, Slack members, subscriber counts, contributor counts.
- A bulleted list of awards FORRT has received (Dorothy Bishop Prize, OSC Award, Open Scholarship Prize), which duplicates
/awards.
None of this actually answers "what has FORRT changed?" — e.g. how many educators have adopted FORRT materials, what policy/institutional change the policy briefings drove, what's shifted in teaching practice as a result of the Educational NEXUS, etc. That's a genuine impact narrative, and it's currently missing.
Naming collision to resolve deliberately
"Impact" is already used for two other, unrelated things on the site:
/awards — page titled "Awards & Impact"./impact (nav: Educational NEXUS → "Impact of OS on students") — a specific published review (Pownall et al., 2023, Royal Society Open Science) on the evidence for teaching open/reproducible scholarship, unrelated to FORRT's own organizational impact.
If the homepage section becomes "Impact", we'd have three differently-scoped "Impact" surfaces. Whoever picks this up should decide the IA explicitly (e.g. rename/merge one of the existing pages, or pick a distinct label for the homepage section) rather than adding a fourth ad-hoc meaning.
Proposal
- Decide what "impact" means for the homepage section and how it relates to
/awards and /impact (rename, merge, or clearly differentiate labels/scope).
- Rewrite the copy to lead with concrete outcomes (reach, adoption, institutional/policy influence, evidence of behavior change) rather than follower/member counts.
- Move the awards bullet list to live solely on
/awards (linked from the homepage, not duplicated).
- Decide whether any of the current milestone stats (Slack members, newsletter subscribers, contributors, projects, partnerships) still belong in this section as supporting evidence, or should move/shrink.
This is primarily a content/messaging decision — implementation (the CSS-based milestones list from #814) can be reused once the copy and structure are agreed.
Raised while rebuilding the homepage Achievements & Awards section (#814).
Problem
The homepage's
content/home/5-achievements.mdsection (just rebuilt visually in #814, replacing a yearly-regenerated infographic image with a CSS-based list) still carries its old content, which is a mix of:/awards.None of this actually answers "what has FORRT changed?" — e.g. how many educators have adopted FORRT materials, what policy/institutional change the policy briefings drove, what's shifted in teaching practice as a result of the Educational NEXUS, etc. That's a genuine impact narrative, and it's currently missing.
Naming collision to resolve deliberately
"Impact" is already used for two other, unrelated things on the site:
/awards— page titled "Awards & Impact"./impact(nav: Educational NEXUS → "Impact of OS on students") — a specific published review (Pownall et al., 2023, Royal Society Open Science) on the evidence for teaching open/reproducible scholarship, unrelated to FORRT's own organizational impact.If the homepage section becomes "Impact", we'd have three differently-scoped "Impact" surfaces. Whoever picks this up should decide the IA explicitly (e.g. rename/merge one of the existing pages, or pick a distinct label for the homepage section) rather than adding a fourth ad-hoc meaning.
Proposal
/awardsand/impact(rename, merge, or clearly differentiate labels/scope)./awards(linked from the homepage, not duplicated).This is primarily a content/messaging decision — implementation (the CSS-based milestones list from #814) can be reused once the copy and structure are agreed.
Raised while rebuilding the homepage Achievements & Awards section (#814).