EPIC: Prepare the About Us page for Homepage Launch

### Overview
We need to track existing issues and make new issues to deliver About Us page complete enough for the Homepage launch

#### Details
We need to track and support the final wrap up items for the homepage launch, so that it can be completed.

### Action Items
- [x] List all the issues related to the label
- [x] Identify what open issues have to be resolved before launch, by classifying the issues into the following categories using MoSCoW method in a comment.
- Must Have
- Should Have
- Could Have
- Won't Have this time
- [x] Add the following details under each issue
```
- why: [ADD WHY ITS IMPORTANT TO TO THE LAUNCH]
- status: [ADD STATUS e.g., Icebox, Emergent Requests, New Issue Approval, ERs and epics that are ready to be turned into issues, Prioritized Backlog, In Progress (actively working), Questions / In Review]
- draft: [true OR false]
- responsible: [ADD GITHUB HANDLES WITHOUT @]
- role: [ADD ROLE e.g. data scientist, infrastructure, design, design lead, user research, Research Lead, dev leads, data analyst, BA, hfla leadership, back end/devOps, writing, front end, merge team, technical writer]
```
- [x] Once you receive sign-off from Staff PM add to `## Relevance of the issues to the Homepage launch`
- [x] Review comments with `Notes carried forward from epic` if it exists, and make sure all previous items are addressed in the top of the issue.
- If it specifies new issues to make then add explicit action items for making those issue in a new comment on this issue
- get sign-off on those new issues to make by Staff PM
- [x] Identify items that need issues opened by looking at the page and features and seeing what is not already addressed by the existing issues or new issues to make list.
- [ ] Make the issues specified
- [ ] Link them as sub issues to this issue
- [ ] Classify them using MoSCoW and add the details (why, status, draft, responsible, role)
- [ ] Get Sign-off and prioritization of the issues by Staff PM
- [ ] If this page has content that must be checked for accuracy before homepage launch, add the detail to the epic for tracking that (resource 1.05)

### Resources/Instructions
- Parent Epic: https://github.com/hackforla/website/issues/2481

#### Used for creating this issue
- 1.01 Label name: P-Feature: About Us
- 1.01.01 Issue Tab: [P-Feature: About Us](https://github.com/hackforla/website/labels/P-Feature%3A%20About%20Us)
- 1.01.02 Project Board: [P-Feature: About Us](https://github.com/orgs/hackforla/projects/86/views/1?filterQuery=label%3A%22P-Feature%3A+About+Us%22)
- 1.02 URL of page on Hack for LA website: https://www.hackforla.org/about/
- 1.03 URL of link to code search: [repo:hackforla/website NOT language:SVG NOT path:/^_data\/internal\/credits\// About Us](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Ahackforla%2Fwebsite+NOT+language%3ASVG+NOT+path%3A%2F%5E_data%5C%2Finternal%5C%2Fcredits%5C%2F%2F+About+Us&type=code)
- 1.04 URL of WIKI page: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Ahackforla%2Fwebsite+About+Us&type=wikis
- 1.04.01 URL of future edits to wiki pages: https://github.com/hackforla/website/wiki/How-to-Contribute-to-the-Wiki (check this page to see if there are any other new edits in the queue.
- 1.05 Issue for adding items to a final checklist: #8417

#### Created by this issue
- 2.01 [EXAMPLE would be a link to an issue related to delivering this page]
---
## Issues to write
### Must Have
- [ ] HOLDING FOR COMPLETION OF SDG ISSUES - Remove the Hack for LA Supports SDGs from the about page. Keep the page/information in code but make it inaccessible from the website. Page/SDG support information can still be found but will not be easy.

### Should Have
TBD

### Could Have
TBD

---

last updated: 2026-08-18
Highest number found: 8504

## Relevance of the issues to the Homepage launch
### Must Have
- [ ] #7662
- why: It is the epic for this page (this issue)
- status: Ready for Prioritization
- draft: True
- responsible: nadiaspn0503
- role: Product

- [ ] #7506 (the metrics section of the site has a link to Survey Results. The content at that link is being updated by the people responsible for the epic.)
- why: We need to manage the work for the Org dashboard, so that we can prioritize and recruit.
- status: New Issue Approval
- draft: True
- responsible: none
- role: Product

- [ ] #8504
- why: We need to rewrite the Hack for LA Platform to ensure all the information is correct and up-to-date.
- status: Ready for Prioritization
- draft: False
- responsible: None
- role: Product and Writing

- [ ] #8484
- why: We need to post the rewritten letter from the executive director on the site code so that it appears in the designated place on the website.
- status: Ice box
- draft: False
- responsible: none
- role: Front end

- [ ] #8483
- why: We need to rewrite the letter from the executive director to go in the designated space on the website.
- status: Ice box
- draft: False
- responsible: none
- role: Writing

- [ ] #8431
- why: We need to move the Our Locations section from the events page to the About Us page to highlight that we were an active in person organization that moved to remote meetings.
- status: Ready for Prioritization
- draft: False
- responsible: none
- role: front end and back end/devOps

- [ ] #4153
- why: We want to move and refactor the SDG info and images so that they can be more easily reused.
- status: In Progress (actively working)
- draft: False
- responsible: JessicaLucindaCheng
- role: Dev Leads

### Should Have

### Could Have
List of all could have issues

- #6666
- why: Unclear or irrelevant alert message.
- status: Ice Box
- draft: False
- responsible: None
- role: Front End

### Won't have this time
List of all won't have issues

- #6819
- #4282
- #4190
- #2174

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### Issues list associated with this epic
last updated:
Highest number found:
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List of all issue by number

- #8504
- #8484
- #8483
- #8431
- #7662
- #7506
- #6819
- #6666
- #4282
- #4190
- #4153
- #2174