<html><body><div dir="ltr">I had an oppertunity to attend foss4g-asia last week (thanks to the event inviting me to represent geoserver and my employer for the time to attend).<div><br></div><div dir="ltr">One thing that consistently came up is ... lack of awareness of what OSGeo offers and how to take part.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">While we have a link on how to add a service provider; the form for creating an OSGeo id is really very confusing.</div><div dir="ltr">The OSGeo channel had the idea that I could grant permissions in person from the osgeo booth. </div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">With this in mind:</div><div dir="ltr"><ul style="list-style-type:"\002013 ";margin:0px" dir="ltr"><li>I helped several people register as members;</li><li>Encouraged service providers to setup a page so we could promote their services<br></li></ul><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">The first one has completed (and I have published) today: <font color="#419cff"><font color="#419cff"><a href="https://www.osgeo.org/service-providers/json-singh-consulting/">https://www.osgeo.org/service-providers/json-singh-consulting/</a></font></font></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Asking people to do so many steps and sign up for mailing lists is quite the procedure. I think we could also help people via chat channels; and discourse which is being setup as an experiment.</div><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>