In Ghent over the last years several of our developers & teams have built up quite some experience towards a quick method to produce a generic project website.
‘Project’ being a (local/regional/EU) partnership or even a single activity (eg. conference, hackaton, …) which basically wants to present itself to the outside world in a straightforward, hassle free fashion. See this as the typical one-page presentation website we repeatedly need. This would include a lof of default (reusable!) building blocks such as:
- project hero block
- description of project
- project partner logos and descriptions
- project methodology (icons etc)
- project sponsors
- project call to action
- …
An idea/ambition that grew here over the last months is to make this a semi-standard approach for (smart) cities, as an open package in SCORE.
The approach itself is CMS-less & static, but through using open source libraries, frameworks, themes and Github its setup process would become potentially the modular, replicable and customizable process we need. A quick win for each partner (+ beyond SCORE) if you ask us.
What we are proposing is to extract the experiences and current practices gathered from producing a couple of such websites, and build & document a central approach.
Possible frameworks to start from:
Jekyll
Vuepress
Hugo
Gatsby
and many more
We believe it would produce a good SCORE code deliverable, and would benefit all partners both in the short term (eg. co-develop it for a SCORE related activity in your city, a workshop etc.) as on the long run (to have it in your toolbelt as a city, reusable for you to present your city’s projects and activities). We think it’s especially useful for project that you do with partners, where a city website is less suited for the purpose of presenting the overall project perspective.
We are wondering if other cities would be interested to co-develop if we take the lead on this. (Or even partners that would like to take the lead themselves.)
Please indicate your reaction on the proposal overview google sheet! before 10th of April 2019 (also if it’s a no for you)
