openEHR's new website - announcement and your views!

That’s really interesting, Olly - thanks for the comments. I was trying to stick closely to the format of the equivalent pages from the old website, but you’re right: we could make a lot more of the applications, rather than focus on the vendors/ developers themselves.
Got to give some thought to how best to display that info… I like the idea of the tiles definitely, but I don’t want as many categories as there are apps… please do send over what you’ve got.
Also, how do we incorporate the other tools and products? Platforms, libraries etc… :thinking:
The update is definitely a still work in progress, so I’m very much open to ideas like this. Drop me a DM and we’ll have a chat. P

I don’t think we need to show exact proportions in terms of ethnicity, but the Asian photos were prominent in the new site, and most were also together. That is where I think showing more diversity might be better. Also the age range in the photos is pretty narrow. I think we have people from 20+ to 60+ (and maybe more) in our community, so why not showing that in the photos?

Either way, I don’t personally like stock photos because it’s pretty obvious those are models and note real doctors, nurses, students or informaticians in the openEHR world.

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In the old site, the underling data was all entered (or at least enterable) by the vendors themselves - do we have this capability with the new site?

In previous sites (i.e. before django) I used to try to keep it up to date. Nearly impossible!

Well, the community is as ‘diverse’ as the societies from which it comes, and the subgroups in those societies who are in medicine, standards, HIT etc. Diversity is an output variable, not an input - I don’t think we should care about it, since it’s not for anyone to control (other than potentially growing the community say further eastward, or Africa, which would be nice of course - already quite a footprint in India!).

I do think the website should reflect (roughly) the community that exists in reality, ideally with photos of real people, not stock photos. A narrow set of ages / sex/ ethnic group does tend to make a visitor imagine that the organisation is specific to some geography or social group that is not the case. My first impression was Asian gamers :wink:

I don’t really care about diversity of innate qualities (i.e. everything is fine) - diversity of professions, clinicians, stakeholder types is more interesting to represent.

First, congratulations on the new website. I think it really emphasizes the openEHR colors and the brand! Overall, it looks fresh and modern.

At the same time, I agree with Pablo that it’s a bit too many stock photos. Maybe the carousel can be put more prominently and you can ensure there is always some nice photos from real people, e.g. from events like in Reading or Berlin.

Also a minor comment: “Join the Club” sounds a bit too informal to me as especially newbies can get even more confused what openEHR is about.

Another thing: the margin between the menu and the first section appears to be a bit too large, but this could also be just my subjective opinion and the transition could be smoother (see the blue stripe on the right, looks like a hard break when it reaches the section)

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