[OSM-talk] Github Issue? Re: more engaging “about” page

[Rory McCann]

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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