Feedback from Mark Miller

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2023-11-06 from Mark Miller

Two quick observations…

Maybe I know too much about how the sausage has been made but when I go to “Join the Community”, I am expecting to be able to join a community that is the ‘IDEAS Productivity” community instead of being confronted with a variety of different things to join with (xSDK, BSSw, Fellowship, etc.). So, I think it might make sense to pull the “Join our mailing list” separated out away from everything else, single button, top, front, center.

Related to the above…is a mailing list really the best technology to be using at this point for keeping interested parties informed? I don’t know cause I just don’t follow that stuff a lot but mailing lists are so 1980s I just worry it feels very dated.

Also, a minor nit about wording of main page statement. My eye is drawn to juxtaposition of “quality” with either “software” or “science”. Its after software and before science. I guess I’d like it more if it read…

We advocate for a culture that enables quality of software as a critical component of quality of science. We evaluate and disseminate best practices and supporting methods and tools, to improve developer productivity, software sustainability and scientific reproducibility.