Member Visibility on EPIC

Themes and Priorities : Increase Member Visibility

Working Group Members : Donald Smith, Mark Johnson, Eric von der Heyden, Howard Lewis, David Rose.

Meeting October 31: David Rose, Nathan, Donald, Marc Johnson

Meeting October 18: All present (David on behalf of Howard).

Considerations:

Google Ads can be used
How can we make member plugins more prominent?
Why would a user actually care if a plugin is a member plugin?
- Members have a vested interest in Eclipse, "Put your money where your mouth is"
- Let's not overestimate the value of being a member to end users of plugins, let's not overestimate what it actually means to end users.

Suggestions:

Any designation of membership needs to have an explanation associated with it (i.e., if you click on the logo, there is an explanation page). Mention "eclipse.org" in addition to foundation.
A Membership landing page may have an option to search for member plugins - perhaps integrated with eclipse.org member pages.
Rather than use terminology like "Member", we use terminology like "Featured", with an explanation area that notes that "Featured" means memebr.

Let's assume we are able to establish value to end users for member plugins, then the following recommendations are:

Homepage

Search Page :

Plugin Category Page:

Default to organizing plugins by "Featured" and then "Other Plugins", but make it easy to search by other criteria. Explain what it means to be featured.

Plugin Page:

Allow members more content/abilities on their plugin page. For example, could EPIC host tutorial content, white papers.

TBD Topics to include: