<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="border: 0px; padding: 7px 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(252, 253, 254);">Stemming from a discussion on a diary entry I created <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mark%20Newnham/diary/19723" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(35, 101, 176);">http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mark%20Newnham/diary/19723</a> , I'm trying to start a project about getting an improved home screen for openstreetmap.org when someone lands there while using a mobile device,especially a small device like a smartphone. I feel that it is extremely unfriendly (i know, i've used it) and that many potential contributors could be frightened away simply by the fact that there is no explanation to what is going on. A redirect to an extremely simple
mobile framework screen would be better than what is going on now.</div><div style="border: 0px; padding: 7px 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(252, 253, 254);">I've recently placed a request in to the wiki team to get the mobile frontend installed on the wiki as part of the same request.</div><div style="border: 0px; padding: 7px 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(252, 253, 254);">I'm assuming that the mobile interface would have to be built in ruby, and I've no experience at all in that, and no real time to learn it. I've loads of experience in php/javascript development and have used jquery wrappers to build mobile web apps, but I'm happy to be involved in building prototypes and to donate bandwidth and disk space to such a project.</div><div style="border: 0px;
padding: 7px 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(252, 253, 254);">I originally placed this message on the development forum, and it was suggested it should be placed here for a better response, so here it is...</div></div></body></html>