<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Looking at<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/about">https://www.openstreetmap.org/about</a></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Specifically the paragraph:</div><div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 2rem; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><div class="icon community" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; width: 30px; height: 30px; background-image: url("https://www.openstreetmap.org/assets/about/sprite-888a90e1555d829221984c1ac07476cff0354772f409a8b6c802e5a5fd7c6a80.png"); text-indent: -9999px; overflow: hidden; margin-right: 10px; background-position: 0px -40px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></div></h2><blockquote type="cite"><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 2rem; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Community Driven</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">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 <a href="https://blog.openstreetmap.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(34, 68, 221); text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">OpenStreetMap Blog</a>, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/diary" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(34, 68, 221); text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">user diaries</a>, <a href="https://blogs.openstreetmap.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(34, 68, 221); text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">community blogs</a>, and the <a href="https://www.osmfoundation.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(34, 68, 221); text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">OSM Foundation</a> website.</p></blockquote><div><br></div>it points to the official blog, user diaries, community blogs and the osmf website.</div><div><br></div><div>My suggestion would be to</div><div><br></div><div>1. add “people like you, e.g. ” before “enthusiast mappers, GIS professionals, ...” and to</div><div><br></div><div>2. add “how to contribute” as link to “<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_to_contribute"> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_to_contribute</a>” right after “see” and before “the OpenStreetMap blog, user diaries.....”</div><div><br></div><div>What do you think?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers Martin <br><br><div dir="ltr">sent from a phone</div></div></body></html>