Minimum Viable Portal
The first priority (key objective 0) that triggered this initiative was that the current portal really needed to be up-to-date and relevant. That task is mostly content-related and can be done quickly. All kinds of dynamic functionality can be built later in separate RFC’s (if the DoOcracy sees people committed to do so).
A minimum portal has essential content, is easy to maintain and possible for a broad audience to extend.
Thoughts on Website Themes
Astro has a few themes that can be readily adapted for use on the Portal, without much work, e.g. …
Docto
Has a widget that can be adapted to display the Grassroots Fedi Directory.
Nebulix
Page Hero is too large and should be replaced/removed.