Update contributing possibilities

[lappemic]

At the moment the contributing guidlines mention only how to add a project or join the community, but not e.g. how to contribute to the website itself. I think it would be nice to encourage people to contribute to the website itself as well if they see potential of improvements, correct typos, or other issues.

Suggested changes

• Update Contributing.md to include encouragment and instructions on how to make changes for the website
• Update the codebase to facilitate changes on the website for new contributers (e.g. add a requirements file, update .gitignore with virtualenvs, etc.)

If this is something you also think is worth doing, let me know. I would make the needed changes with pleasure.

[Ly0n]

Thank you very much @lappemic for this suggestion. What you say is definitely valid and should be implemented as you have already suggested. We should also do some small documentation about the integration of ecosyste.ms and how the grist document is updated via GitHub Action. For someone newcomer to the project, this could be very confusing to understand without some smaller documentation. A flowchart could help a lot here. I can create this!

[lappemic]

Is there already something documented about the ecosyste.ms and grist integration?

Will make a draft pr next week for this 👍

[Ly0n]

Only the backend repo provides some information, but how they are connected is not yet documented.
https://github.com/ecosyste-ms/ost
https://ost.ecosyste.ms/docs/index.html

A flowchart showing all the relevant scripts, files and APIs is definitely missing.

[Ly0n]

I created a flow chart for the OST repo showing the main workflow: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-bZ57M3uMi2_aPSZU1NvK1hHKQbzLU1J/view

Just click "Open with" --> "Draw.io" and you should be able to add edit this file.

The integration of ecosystem.ms and ClimateTriage.com needs more detail.
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