Update images for about page, refresh the layout

[Mattsi-Jansky]

All images comply with photo policy, by my judgement at least. Welcome to review and discuss if you see any issues. Almost all images were sourced from https://cloud.orga.emfcamp.org, one comes from a village's photo album.

• about_1.jpg - Matt Gray, EMF 2024 https://cloud.orga.emfcamp.org/f/69259
  • This one does include someone clearly identifiable. As they're a speaker I expect they'd be fine with that, but I'll try reach out to them to check.
  • update: Got permission, via Matt Gray, that pictured speaker (Seb Lee Delisle) is happy for the photo to be used
• about_2.jpg - David Brett, EMF 2024 https://cloud.orga.emfcamp.org/core/preview?fileId=74682&x=2560&y=1440&a=true&etag=b5a0afeff54d22e19e45a9cab22164be
  • Everyone is silhouetted and out of focus here, nothing personally identifiable
• about_3.jpg - Kari Bellamy, EMF 2022 https://cloud.orga.emfcamp.org/core/preview?fileId=22331&x=2560&y=1440&a=true&etag=6c8a3bb716be478c7e9700b969bc2af4
• about_4.jpg - Andrew Mulholland 2024. https://cloud.orga.emfcamp.org/core/preview?fileId=81112&x=2560&y=1440&a=true&etag=e705710b17769af86b37dd010264a572
  • This one does show a kid's torso but I don't think there is anything personally identifiable. The QR code goes to Taylor Swift's YouTube page.
• about_5.jpg - David Brett, 2024 https://cloud.orga.emfcamp.org/core/preview?fileId=78245&x=2560&y=1440&a=true&etag=5e19cf67462c25db48aa4b35cf5f5cbe
  • A few people vaguely visible here but no direct or high-quality faces. I judged it to be okay, but open to being challenged on it.
• about_6.jpg - Andrew Mulholland, 2024, panoramic drone shot (cropped by me). One of these, I forget exactly which: https://cloud.orga.emfcamp.org/apps/files/files/81715?dir=/orga/Event%20Photography/EMF%202024/Andrew%20Mulholland/Drone-day
• about_7.jpg - Siddharth Vadgama, from a village's private Google Photos album
  • No people in this one, but lots of leaflets. I scanned them manually and can't see any phone numbers, names, or anything else identifiable. None of the QR codes seem to be high quality / well-preserved enough to work. There is a crude doodle of a penis if you look close enough but I think we can get away with that? Again, open to objections
• about_8.jpg - Kari Bellamy, EMF 2022. https://cloud.orga.emfcamp.org/f/23358
  • This one does feature kids but just some anonymous limbs, nothing personally identifiable that I can see.

Other notes:

• All images are optimised for web, i.e. compressed jpegs and resolution reduced to 1080p.
  • Where images are displayed in reduced size I generated reduced resolution thumbnails which drops file size ~80%, but the user can click to view the 1080p version.
• I still plan to update some minor details of the text, namely I want to see if I can find some more recent press/blog coverage to replace the old links with. I'll take the PR out of draft once I've done that.

[russss]

I don't like the body text styling here - it should be consistent with the rest of the website even if you think that looks worse. In general any page-specific styling is just going to make it more difficult when it comes to revising the CSS (which we're aiming to do after this year), so I'd like to keep this to an absolute minimum.

I'm inclined to lose the YouTube video at this point, although I'd welcome other opinions.

[russss]

(Marking as "request changes" because I always forget to do this and it requires a comment)

[Mattsi-Jansky]

I don't like the body text styling here - it should be consistent with the rest of the website even if you think that looks worse. In general any page-specific styling is just going to make it more difficult when it comes to revising the CSS (which we're aiming to do after this year), so I'd like to keep this to an absolute minimum.

I'm inclined to lose the YouTube video at this point, although I'd welcome other opinions.

That is a fair point, it'll be simpler to maintain the whole site if we don't make exceptions. I removed the line-height change and custom title/h1 style in eb89b70. Other than those all the text is consistent with the rest of the site, with the exception of the sub-heading.

I do think the sub-heading adds something valuable, but there isn't any similar style across the website to use in its place. I think we can either: a) push it up to _base.scss as a shared subheading style or b) remove the subheading altogether. I think it adds value but I'm happy to remove it if you prefer. What do you think?

Re: the YouTube video personally I think it adds quite a bit, though it could really do with updating as it'll be a decade old come EMF 2028. Happy to remove it as part of this PR if that's what people prefer though.

[jellybob]

Chipping in here with some purely subjective feedback. I would personally drop the smaller images sitting to the right of the text and stick with just the large ones. Maybe stick a little grid of smaller ones down the bottom for the people who want to see more. The ones on the right currently for me throw off the page flow a bit.

[Mattsi-Jansky]

Chipping in here with some purely subjective feedback. I would personally drop the smaller images sitting to the right of the text and stick with just the large ones. Maybe stick a little grid of smaller ones down the bottom for the people who want to see more. The ones on the right currently for me throw off the page flow a bit.

The main impetus for updating this page has been the difficulty in explaining what EMF is to potential sponsors, and enticing their interest. The previous page had a lot of images too, but they were quite old and didn't capture the scale that recent EMFs have reached. I don't think the page would be very enticing without the images, giving visitors a more tangible sense of what the event is like.

[futureshape]

I also vote for more images, it's hard to convey the scale of what happens at EMF with a limited set of imagery.

We have a fairly narrow content area and no components (yet) to do carousels/image galleries so whilst we can still improve this in the future, it's a good step forward.

P.S. It would be good to know from the beginning that point was to explain the event to sponsors, I was wondering why we're trying to improve the "about" page for an already sold-out festival :)

[russss]

There's still a line-height: 1.7 on some of the body text which I'd prefer to get rid of. Please can you also squash this PR into one commit, as we don't have the ability to do this with the merge queue, then I'll get it merged.