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Thanks, that is an interesting experiment for sure!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I like discourse mechaisms for slowly/automatically building trust and establishing a person is ... well a person. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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...).</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">But we can work on the template as we go, thus far I think this shows a lot of promise. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote" type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Do you need an OSGeo Account?</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote" type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote" type="cite" dir="ltr">Requested OSGeo Account service permissions: (remove any that do not apply):</blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote" type="cite" dir="ltr"><ul style="margin:0px" dir="ltr"><li style="color:rgb(155,155,155)!important">Website: Create a member profile to join OSGeo Foundation<br></li><li style="color:rgb(155,155,155)!important">Wiki: Edit wiki pages</li><li style="color:rgb(155,155,155)!important">QGIS Plugin: Publish your own QGIS plugin (Note: Installing a plugin is available to everyone and does not require an OSGeo account)</li><li>Code: Create a repository or contribute to a repository on <a href="http://git.osgeo.org">git.osgeo.org</a></li><li>Google Summer of Code: Join as a participant</li></ul></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote" type="cite" dir="ltr"><ul style="margin:0px" dir="ltr"><li style="color:rgb(155,155,155)!important">Website: Add a project to the OSGeo project directory</li><li style="color:rgb(155,155,155)!important">Translate: Translate a project on weblate<br></li><li>GeoForAll: Participate in GeoForAll initiative</li></ul></blockquote><br>Reading the above list, some things like GeoForAll and Add a project could be better handled by their respective discourse forums?<br><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>- -<br></div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div><br>
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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><br>
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