Consolidate the "Getting Started" page into one that funnels people into a single goal. What is the goal of the Getting Started page?

[SixtyGrit]

Getting started greets the user with a wall of text, and the top item defines the term and the group, not getting the user started. Let's make this more action-focused.
https://samvera.org/get-started/getting-started

[heathergreerklein]

We discussed this at the Outreach & Engagement call today. The TL;DR is we want to restructure this page and make sure it lets more types of users "get started" in the way that makes sense for them.

A few thoughts from that discussion:

• Traditionally, we thought of the goal of this page to be "getting started connecting to the community," because this is a common path for library technologists who are exploring an open source repository option. They are likely looking at not just the platform but who is using it and how, assess the overall health of the community, to connect their staff to the wider community, and to explore the code on GitHub. They might need to write an assessment before they move forward with implementation.
• We want this person to know about and easily join the Slack channel and the email lists, be able to review the content of the wiki, to schedule time with the Community Manager, review the working and interest groups and potentially join a call, to see upcoming community events, and to review YouTube videos of past events.

We talked about what getting started looks like for a few different groups of potential visitors:

• A non-technical library leader or librarian looking to learn more about what the platforms offer: this person should be directed to an overview of the platform options with links to the platform subdomains. They should also know that the software has a supporting community and ways to connect with that community.
• A non-developer staff member of an organization with no technical staff. They need to find a hosted service provider and will explore the options through the lense of what can be done for them - this person needs to be directed to the service providers page.

The group thought it could work better to use the formatting of the "Contact us" page to present options for getting started.
@SixtyGrit This will take some coordination with the front end volunteers from Princeton, but I'd love to get your ideas on this to make an issue for the dev folks to re-work the page layout.