I'm sure there are ways for OSM to do better outreach, and that there
are people who don't realise we would value their contributions.
I think these wordings are set on the openstreetmap-website github
project ( https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website ), so I
think you should open a (few) github issues there with those good
suggestions (
https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/new ).
Posting to this mailing list as a way to talk to the OSM community is
certainly a good thing.
(It would be interesting to A/B test wording etc., but that's a larger
project)
On 27.07.20 17:06, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
Looking at
https://www.openstreetmap.org/about
I thought it was not very engaging and we might want to make some small
adjustments to make it more inviting for people to contribute.
Specifically the paragraph:
Community Driven
OpenStreetMap's community is diverse, passionate, and growing every
day. Our contributors include enthusiast mappers, GIS professionals,
engineers running the OSM servers, humanitarians mapping
disaster-affected areas, and many more. To learn more about the
community, see the OpenStreetMap Blog
<https://blog.openstreetmap.org/>, user diaries
<https://www.openstreetmap.org/diary>, community blogs
<https://blogs.openstreetmap.org/>, and the OSM Foundation
<https://www.osmfoundation.org/> website.
it points to the official blog, user diaries, community blogs and the
osmf website.
My suggestion would be to
1. add “people like you, e.g. ” before “enthusiast mappers, GIS
professionals, ...” and to
2. add “how to contribute” as link to
“ https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_to_contribute
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_to_contribute>” right after
“see” and before “the OpenStreetMap blog, user diaries.....”
What do you think?
Cheers Martin
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