In lieu of publishing an annual report this year, we're kicking off a monthly snapshot that provides an overview of 1) ecosystem growth and 2) project sustainability, along with a few extra tidbits.
If you've read enough and want to jump right to it, go to https://civicrm.com/about
What's this all about?
The CiviCRM Core Team is very interested in understanding and fostering ecosystem growth, and in ultimately sustaining the project in such a way that we have sufficient capacity to realize project priorities effectively.
We track various metrics and trends to this end and feel like they are more meaningful than a single annual report. They demonstrate what's happening in these focus areas on an ongoing basis and stand to better inform us and the CiviCRM community on what needs to change in order to continue to foster and sustain the CiviCRM project.
The new monthly snapshot shares key project stats with the community such that there is more transparency and potential for more dialogue on how to improve the project for everyone.
It's really that simple.
Closing points
- We will update the snapshot around the first of each month.
- We'll send out updates periodically via the monthly newsletter, LinkedIn, Mastodon and Blue Sky.
Comments
Very cool, great work. A few suggestions:
On https://civicrm.com/about/ - change the page title to Monthly Snapshot, and update the URL to match.
Add some of the language you shared above into the intro section to better set context.
Add a navigational cue so it’s obvious people should scroll down to read the report.
Bigger-picture: I just noticed this on the site - maybe we update the site CSS so text and links meet WCAG contrast standards. Light grey links on light grey backgrounds are tough to read.
Just came here to second the need for a better title and a visual cue to scroll. I definitely missed it the first time around, because it looked like a simple imprint page rather than the cool and useful scrollytelling dashboard that it is.