Soft Launch May 2024

[rufuspollock]

Tasks

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1. Get a wiki #301
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2. Initial material on wiki #304
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3. Map of Paradigmatic Changemaking Ecosystem (level 1/2 map) #302
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4. Landing page v0.3 [v1.0-a] #305
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5. 2R Whitepaper v1.0 Published #306
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6. Newsletter setup
7. Move 2021 report to its own page and tidy #249
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8. About page ✅2024-05-19 see https://secondrenaissance.net/about
9. Announcement - see below
10. 2R Preview Webinar Set-up #309
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Announcement

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1. Draft announcement e.g. blog posts, socials, message to lists, to friends and family See draft here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KHGd5ram5KCx4A1dQS2Kwv6IFz34BclYGMfCS6ZfWFg/edit
2. Publish on Life Itself blog
3. Publish to second renaissance substack @laurenwigmore
4. ...

Newsletter / Blog setup

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1. Create a substack ✅2024-05-13 https://secondrenaissance.substack.com
2. Tweak config e.g. no prompt signup screen to see posts (?)
3. Remove default empty post ✅2024-05-19 unpublished
4. Migrate some content over e.g. some major publications like the intro ??
5. Subscribers from Life Itself

Misc

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1. 🔥 Resize map and add to the ecosystem page ✅2024-05-19 converted to webp (500k) and added to page
2. Add chat to navbar ✅2024-05-29
3. Create a proper contact page with suggestions to email [email protected] or join discord ✅2024-05-29
4. Update redirect from ecosystem.lifeitself.org to go to /ecosystem/pip
5. Redirect lifeitself.org/second-renaissance to here
6. 🧊 Remove unused images for homepage etc
7. 🔥 Sort out /glossary whose list of terms link to old wiki that is now moved to actual wiki #329
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8. 🧊 Set Favicon (sunrise emoji) 🌄 ✅2024-06-30 ❌ this is currently hard to do in flowershow
9. Update analytics for new url
10. Add Get Involved link and page (say we welcome participation and suggest join discord as first step)

Future / Bonus

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1. Add map on its own page ... ✅2024-06-30 at https://secondrenaissance.net/map and in navbar
2. Blog post about the map (for the future) ✅2024-06-30 https://secondrenaissance.substack.com/p/map-of-second-renaissance-changemaking

///// Day to Day

2024-05-20

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1. Refactor this issue to split out major sub-stacks to own issue
2. Review drafted/published about page ✅2024-05-20 and revised
3. Review and finalize announcement text

2024-05-20 - Next 24h

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1. Wiki barn-raising date @asimong and james
2. Improvements to CTA (at bottom - and is there one at the top) @james
3. Rufus to finalize announce
4. Lauren to edit front page text

2024-05-21

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1. Finalize announce (and hence about)
2. Finalize front page

2024-05-29

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1. Modify James and other people's titles on about and announce
2. Release the announce

[catherinet1]

The draft announcement post that I wrote is in this issue #295 cc @laurenwigmore. It was framed more as announcing a new newsletter but may be helpful material for drafting a broader announcement for this soft launch.

[rufuspollock]

FIXED. All done.