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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Are the ones in grey the ones you want to keep?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The ones not in grey – GeoForAll is a pretty high reason why people ask for mantras. We don’t have a discourse category for it to my knowledge, but if we did that could be a good place to put it and if someone is managing GeoForAll – they could send the user a discourse chat note with the mantra.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Google summer of code, yes we do have category for that, so I feel we can remove that. They’ll introduce themselves anyway and so it would be clear and they can be given their accounts once they are accepted. That is rarely done when they first introduce themselves.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@gmail.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 14, 2026 2:59 PM<br><b>To:</b> Regina Obe <lr@pcorp.us><br><b>Cc:</b> System Administration Committee Discussion/OSGeo <sac@lists.osgeo.org>; OSGeo Incubator Committee <Incubator@lists.osgeo.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Incubator] The need for mantra<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks, that is an interesting experiment for sure!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I like discourse mechaisms for slowly/automatically building trust and establishing a person is ... well a person. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>As for the onboarding process, we started this conversation about OSGeo ID and "mantra", so we are looking very technical intimidating list of questions (weblate etc...).<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I think if we look at this from a "Introduce yourself" / "why do you want to join OSGeo" perspective then the initial questions could be smaller, easier to respond to, and less intimidating.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>But we can work on the template as we go, thus far I think this shows a lot of promise. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Do you need an OSGeo Account?<o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>Requested OSGeo Account service permissions: (remove any that do not apply):<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#9B9B9B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Website: Create a member profile to join OSGeo Foundation<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#9B9B9B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Wiki: Edit wiki pages<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#9B9B9B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>QGIS Plugin: Publish your own QGIS plugin (Note: Installing a plugin is available to everyone and does not require an OSGeo account)<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Code: Create a repository or contribute to a repository on <a href="http://git.osgeo.org">git.osgeo.org</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Google Summer of Code: Join as a participant<o:p></o:p></li></ul></blockquote><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#9B9B9B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>Website: Add a project to the OSGeo project directory<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#9B9B9B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>Translate: Translate a project on weblate<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>GeoForAll: Participate in GeoForAll initiative<o:p></o:p></li></ul></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><br>Reading the above list, some things like GeoForAll and Add a project could be better handled by their respective discourse forums?<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>- -<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Jody Garnett<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Jan 14, 2026 at 10:34:44<span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span>AM, Regina Obe via Incubator <<a href="mailto:incubator@lists.osgeo.org">incubator@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>As discussed in this email and in the incubation committee meeting today. <br>The need for mantra is burdensome. It is burdensome for users asking for<br>one and also for those who have to address them and 80% of the time there is<br>no point to the ask.<br><br>Main issues are:<br><br>1) People ask for an osgeo id simply to introduce themselves to the<br>community and their interests and for some reason think they need an osgeo<br>id to do so.<br>2) People ask for mantras cause they want to download QGIS software and<br>think they need one.<br><br><br>Then there are some people that really need OSGeo ids cause they need to<br>publish a QGIS plugin.<br><br><br>Jody thought maybe using discourse in some way to field these might help.<br><br>I created a Introduction category with a template to just test this idea<br>out.<br><br><a href="https://discourse.osgeo.org/c/introductions">https://discourse.osgeo.org/c/introductions</a><br><br><br>If you notice if you create a new topic in this category, it will prefill<br>with a template.<br><br>Anyone else that asks me to give them a mantra without sufficient<br>information to do so, I'm going to force them to fill this out to prove<br>their need and if they do, I'll just private message them on discourse with<br>the mantra.<br><br>This is of course an experiment, but I figure is frictionless way for people<br>to introduce themselves to us and if it doesn't work for mantra, at the very<br>least, it will be easier to filter out from those folk who use the "General"<br>category to introduce themselves. I'm going to move all the intro messages<br>out of general and into this category.<br><br>Discourse Admins - please fill free to edit the category template - which is<br>located here -<br><a href="https://discourse.osgeo.org/c/introductions/edit/topic-template">https://discourse.osgeo.org/c/introductions/edit/topic-template</a><br><br>Thanks,<br>Regina<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Incubator mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Incubator@lists.osgeo.org">Incubator@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>