[OSM-talk] more engaging “about” page
Michal Migurski
mike at teczno.com
Mon Jul 27 20:18:23 UTC 2020
I turned this into a PR,
https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/2735
This change covers just the two English locales.
-mike.
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> On Jul 27, 2020, at 9:59 AM, Alex Dawn <al_4242 at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
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> I'd agree with that, it was quite a while before I registered an account. Then I did do GIS for work, but was thinking there's probably a big difference between loading a couple of shape files and being a "GIS professional" who makes and manages a world map. Turns out there's not, more nudges to make baby steps would be good.
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> From: Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2020 4:06:52 PM
> To: talk at openstreetmap.org <talk at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: [OSM-talk] more engaging “about” page
>
> Looking at
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> https://www.openstreetmap.org/about <https://www.openstreetmap.org/about>
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> 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.
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> it points to the official blog, user diaries, community blogs and the osmf website.
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> My suggestion would be to
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> 1. add “people like you, e.g. ” before “enthusiast mappers, GIS professionals, ...” and to
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> 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.....”
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> What do you think?
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> Cheers Martin
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