🎉 Major Release: Complete Website Restructuring
This release represents a comprehensive overhaul of the Research Data & Methods Workshop Series website with dramatic simplification and improved organization.
✨ Major Changes
📁 Complete Consolidation
- ALL content now consolidated into docs/ directory
- Eliminated 6 duplicate directory pairs (flyers, calendar, agenda, retreat, resources, onboarding)
- Removed 15,000+ lines of redundant code and legacy files
- Deleted Jekyll legacy artifacts (_data/, front matter)
🎨 Front Page Simplification
- Replaced complex card layout with clean numbered list
- 75% CSS reduction (200 → 50 lines in custom.css)
- Removed 14+ custom CSS classes for cleaner maintenance
- Improved readability and mobile responsiveness
📂 Logical Organization
- Created dedicated docs/archiving/ for archiving content
- New docs/matrix/ folder for Matrix chat documentation
- New docs/development/ folder for developer resources
- New docs/about/ folder for project meta-documentation
- Separated archiving content from onboarding (proper categorization)
🏷️ Internal Documentation Clarity
- Renamed internal docs with INTERNAL- prefix
- Clear distinction between public content and internal documentation
- 6 files renamed for transparency
🗺️ Navigation Improvements
- Re-added Schedule tab with current and archived schedules
- Added Archiving section for research data preservation resources
- Split documentation into: Development, Matrix, About sections
- All 12 workshops easily accessible
📊 Enhanced README
- Added 11 comprehensive badges (status, tech stack, content, focus)
- Build status, Python/MkDocs versions, workshop count
- Open Science and Research Data Management highlights
- Local pride with ❤️ in Cologne badge
📈 Performance
- Build time: 1.38 seconds ⚡
- Zero errors in deployment
- All GitHub Actions passing ✅
🎯 Results
- 100% clean root directory structure
- 90% reduction in loose files (organized into folders)
- Professional MkDocs project structure
- Single source of truth for all content
- Dramatically simplified maintenance
🔗 Links
- Live site: https://sfb1252.github.io/talks
- Documentation: https://sfb1252.github.io/talks/about/website-development/
📝 Files Changed
- 70 files changed
- 863 insertions(+)
- 15,590 deletions(-)
Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v2.0.0