Sponsor and member contact link improvement

[CarmenDelgadoEclipse]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We are trying to improve new members' and sponsors' experience and contact flow.
Having the same user experience as they can get from other Eclipse Foundation working group pages will be helpful.

Describe the solution you'd like
Instead of having https://adoptium.net/members/ a "want to join?" button has the same flow as this page https://www.eclipse.org/org/workinggroups/explore.php having 2: contact us about membership that will go to the same link https://adoptium.net/join/ and My organization is ready to join now https://membership.eclipse.org/application#sign-in .
And for Sponsor's page: https://adoptium.net/sponsors/ , want to sponsor? Change from the form link to the same links mentioned above.

Describe alternatives you've considered
a first step for sure is changing the "want to sponsor" to the same link as "want to join?" from the member page.
Then we could add the rest of the buttons and related links.

As part of the website improvements ideas: #1253

[pandenaman007]

Hi can I be assigned to this issue?

[tellison]

@pandenaman007 consider yourself assigned - thank you.

[pandenaman007]

@pandenaman007 consider yourself assigned - thank you.

According to me we should place the "want to join" button at the starting of the webpage rather than at the end as the user would have to scroll all the way down in the same way as the Eclipse foundation page is designed. We can have two button placed side-by-side one of "want to join" and the other should be about the contact for the membership. These should be at the top of the page just like that of the page of The Eclipse Foundation. For the "want to sponsor" we can place that one at the end of the webpage. This can be the improvements over the current format.

[CarmenDelgadoEclipse]

@pandenaman007 do you need any further feedback?

[pandenaman007]

No ma'am I think this is good according to me and also I checked the resources You mentioned in #1253 such as that of the Jakarta Package EE . I think this good approach for the contact linking UX design so that it gets the attention of more people. Thanks for your kind support.

[smlambert]

hi @pandenaman007 - I think this issue is not a "good first issue" because there are aspects of it that are still not defined, so requires more discussion. If you are okay with it, I would like your help on a better defined issue, (and I would tag you shortly on a different issue to assist with).

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Reading the request, I think there are some problems with the suggested workflow which I will outline after I first interpret what I think is being requested. This is a large feature request (that is not suitable as a good first issue), it can be broken down into several smaller pieces (each of which perhaps are good first issues).

The current request is this:

1. Update the members page
   a. Change the link of the "Want to Join" button to link to https://adoptium.net/join/
   b. Change the text "Want to Join" button to say "Become a Member"
   c. Add a 2nd button called "My organization is ready to Join" which links to https://membership.eclipse.org/application#sign-in
2. Update the sponsors page
   a. Change the "Want to become a sponsor?" button to link to https://adoptium.net/join/
   b. Add a 2nd button called "My organization is ready to Sponsor" which links to https://membership.eclipse.org/application#sign-in (this is bad, see notes below)

Problems to consider:
1 - if we want to change the flow to be like https://www.eclipse.org/org/workinggroups/explore.php, then we are missing a link off to a page that describes what a working group is (https://www.eclipse.org/org/workinggroups/about.php)
1b - requesting that "Become a Member" button leads off to a form to contact us, so it is misleading, perhaps "Contact us" is more accurate
1c - what wording to put on a 2nd button "My organization is ready to Join" is likely 'too long', perhaps "Join now"
2a - this is wrong, if they want to sponsor we are driving them to a contact us page that is saying they have to join the working group
2b - this is wrong, they are saying they are ready to sponsor, and we ignore that request and drive them to a membership application

We have many web pages being discussed as part of this workflow:

Page	Link	Notes
"Members" page	https://adoptium.net/members/	a list of existing members and button(s) to take action
"Member Application form" page	https://membership.eclipse.org/application#sign-in
"Sponsors" page	https://adoptium.net/sponsors/	a list of existing sponsors and button(s) to take action
"Sponsor Application form" pdf	https://www.eclipse.org/org/workinggroups/sponsorship/working-group-sponsorship-agreement.pdf	This likely should not be a direct download from a button, but rather a link with text: "Sponsorship Agreement" off of the "How to Support Us" page
"Join" page	https://adoptium.net/join/	should be renamed "Contact form" page has the header "Join the Eclipse Adoptium® Working Group", which should be changed to "Contact us"
"About working groups" page	https://www.eclipse.org/org/workinggroups/about.php	not part of our website, but can link off to it for informational reasons)
"How to support us" page	TBD	doesn't exist yet, this should describe the preferred, various ways that people and organizations can support our project, and that EF membership fees are directed to general services, not to specific project needs

Adding a flow diagram for a potential flow from the members page to other pages (and what those pages link off to):

flowchart LR

A[Members page] 
A --> C{Decision}
C -->|Learn More| D[How to Support Us page]-->|Contact us| B[Contact form page]
C -->|Contact Us| F[Contact form page]
C -->|Ready to Join| E[Membership Application page]
D -->|About Working Groups| G[About working groups page]
D -->|Sponsor Us| H[Sponsor Application form]
D -->|Join EF| I[Membership Application page]
D -->|Join Adoptium WG|J[Membership Application page]

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[pandenaman007]

Yes Ma'am I think this will require more level of understanding and experience for me to solve. Please assign me some other issue and I would be very happy to solve that issue. Again thanks a lot for your kind support.

[smlambert]

@pandenaman007 - if you can shift over to work on adoptium/aqa-tests#4199 that would be wonderful!

[Ndacyayisenga-droid]

@smlambert can take up this?