v2.0.0 - Major Website Simplification & Reorganization

🎉 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(-)

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Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v2.0.0

Browser Automation & Matrix Integration Testing

Initial release with browser automation and Matrix integration features.