[Marketing] OSGeo Sign-on/Website initiative email for project officers

[Jorge Sanz]

Thanks for leading this Scott, I see the questions appropriate and fit 
for a first contact.

Not sure how you want to gather all this feedback and how much work will 
it mean for you. Have you considered making a survey to collect that 
feedback in an organized fashion? OSGeo hosts a survey server[1] we 
could maybe[2] use for this. Of coures totally up to you, just sharing 
here FYI. Since this is quite informal, maybe you find other forms 
procedure (Google or TypeForm for example?) more self-service and less 
cumbersome.

Cheers!!

[1]: https://limesurvey.osgeo.org/
[2]: I'm not totally sure how easy would be to set up because LimeSurvey 
has been only used so far for OSGeo Elections, so we would need to 
contact our System Admins Committee for assistance.

On 2024-04-03 19:14, Scott McHale via Marketing wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> In advance of the meeting on Friday, I wanted to provide you my draft 
> of the initial email out to the project officers to begin gathering 
> views on any potential website efforts. It is, admittedly, starting 
> very small and casual so as to encourage as broad a response as 
> possible. We can discuss at the meeting or please feel free to respond 
> here with any suggestions you might have.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott.
>
> *****************************
>
> Hello,
>
> I’m Scott McHale. I host the small, informal, OSGeo Alberta Chapter 
> each month here in Alberta, Canada. I am reaching out to you as a 
> project officer to ask your perspective on a potential initiative 
> within OSGeo.
>
> I have a goal of having as many of my meetup members as possible 
> become OSGeo members and get their OSGeo Sign-on ID. Not being 
> particularly technical, myself, I found that process to be a bit 
> disorienting when I did it and am interested in finding ways to make 
> it less so for other potential members. In speaking with the Marketing 
> Committee on that subject, discussion suggested perhaps there would 
> also be value in a further effort to create a more welcoming pathway 
> on the website for less technical people, like me.
>
> OSGeo is very diverse with many projects, geographies, and areas of 
> responsibility and the first step to understanding the potential value 
> of any initiative would be understanding as many of the perspectives 
> as possible. I have some detailed questions about measuring success 
> and mapping of our potential user base, but I would like to begin with 
> a few simple questions.
>
> From the perspective of your particular project, geography, or 
> responsibility:
>
>   * What do you feel the OSGeo website needs to accomplish in terms of
>     attracting users/members, delivering information or messaging, or
>     anything else you feel is important?
>   * How do you assess whether the OSGeo website is accomplishing the
>     things you need it to?
>   * How successful is the OSGeo website in accomplishing what you need
>     it to?
>
> Please feel free to provide feedback as formally or informally as you 
> like. I will gather and summarize the responses to get a starting 
> point on                       deciding whether to pursue an 
> initiative more deeply.
>
> If you have any other information you’re eager to share – success 
> measures, community feedback, any technical info you think is relevant 
> – please feel free to share that as well for further context.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott.
>
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>
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>
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