[Incubator] The need for mantra

[Regina Obe]

As discussed in this email and in the incubation committee meeting today. 
The need for mantra is burdensome.  It is burdensome for users asking for
one and also for those who have to address them and 80% of the time there is
no point to the ask.

Main issues are:

1) People ask for an osgeo id simply to introduce themselves to the
community and their interests and for some reason think they need an osgeo
id to do so.
2) People ask for mantras cause they want to download QGIS software and
think they need one.


Then there are some people that really need OSGeo ids cause they need to
publish a QGIS plugin.


Jody thought maybe using discourse in some way to field these might help.

I created a Introduction category with a template to just test this idea
out.

https://discourse.osgeo.org/c/introductions


If you notice if you create a new topic in this category, it will prefill
with a template.

Anyone else that asks me to give them a mantra without sufficient
information to do so, I'm going to force them to fill this out to prove
their need and if they do, I'll just private message them on discourse with
the mantra.

This is of course an experiment, but I figure is frictionless way for people
to introduce themselves to us and if it doesn't work for mantra, at the very
least, it will be easier to filter out from those folk who use the "General"
category to introduce themselves.  I'm going to move all the intro messages
out of general and into this category.

Discourse Admins - please fill free to edit the category template - which is
located here -
https://discourse.osgeo.org/c/introductions/edit/topic-template

Thanks,
Regina