[META] Track 11: Dashboard page for post installation and login

I realize it's very early to be adding feature requests, but based on my initial testing of the Events recipe for Starshot, I see that installing Drupal programmatically in a containerized environment (including DDEV locally or using the WASM in-browser install Matt Glaman is working on) often results in a site that has UTC set as the timezone.

Having the site timezone as UTC is likely to cause a variety of subtle issues, and in published sites this is very rarely done deliberately. In particular, generating "add-to-calendar" links (recently added to the Events recipe) from a site with a UTC timezone can lead to some unexpected behavior.

I would like to see on this "post install dashboard" a prompt to change the timezone if it currently set to UTC. Perhaps it could be a message they could dismiss, but since real-world experience suggests that sites are rarely set to use UTC by design, we should make it as easy as possible for the site builder to change the timezone to something that will better suit their needs.

Assigning to track lead.

Hi!
I/my team would like to contribute here a small peace. A block which was not jet considered (I have not spotted here or in other issues around this initiative.
We discussed that already multiple times over at our project drupical.com and today at the EOWG → Board meeting.

Idea: On the Dashboard, show a list of near (location based) Drupal Events. Source will be https://www.drupal.org/community/events →
Over at Drupical we did some research in issues and also had some meeting with other cms systems (developers and users from other systems) like Wordpress. It would help to let a Starshot user explore the Drupal community and maybe finde some connections at a possible Drupal event around their place.
If this is something which is interesting, and could be considered, we would like to take that issue on and develop and provide such a "block".
I am not sure, this is the right issue to discuss it, but also happy, if we can create an own issue for this, if this is well received and gets some thumbs up.

The event organizers have been preparing for this moment for years. 😊

At various points dating back to DrupalCon New Orleans, 2016, folka have proposed a Wordpress-style "Events and News" item in the dashboard. The "Announcements" block is starting to work in that way, but it would be great to have a more fully-functional method for helping folks discover the "stay for the community" aspect we're so proud of.

Here is what the Wordpress block currently looks like for me:

The Drupal Community Events → listing can output events as JSON → , which could be consumed by a Dashboard widget. We're happy to work with the DA team to supplement the existing event data with anything else that would be useful.

@grienauer @froboy I think this probably makes more sense as a child issue, where it can be discussed on its own?