[Marketing] (Re) Introduction and proposed effort

[Jody Garnett]

Hello again Scott,

Hunting down some examples, but really I am interested in your thoughts /
insight and directions. Frankly it does not matter quite so much what folks
had envisioned in the past if they are not present today volunteering to
see improvements made.

I did an okay "service provider" welcome here:
https://www.osgeo.org/community/getting-started-osgeo/add-service-provider/

I would *love* to see something similar for new users, ideally written for
"GIS Professionals / GIS Enthusiast". It may be my personal bias, but I
expect that "IT Professionals / IT Enthusiast" have more experience joining
a community given how pervasive free and open source is in general.
--
Jody Garnett


On Feb 18, 2024 at 11:02:15 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for joining us Scott, and welcome!
>
> While Brian has shared the getting started page, you can see that it is
> serving many different target audience (new members, new service providers,
> and so on).
>
> The actual new member sign up page is very much in need of help:
> https://id.osgeo.org/ldap/create
>
> While I was able to make some improvements in early January to workflow
> (order of things to do on the page now matches the order are they
> presented, the "mantra" is now explained as a short phrase, "enter mantra"
> and "continue" replaced the small "ॐ" button, etc...), ...  Improvements
> are not a "rethink" which is where I hope your strengths are directed :)
>
> The page is still serving many competing needs with different levels of
> complexity and is not setup to welcome new users.
>
> I very much look forward to your thoughts on this! (And I may just be
> having the assumption that this page was where you found trouble based on
> my recent experience trying to sign up new users).
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 5:04 PM Scott McHale via Marketing <
> marketing at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> I just signed up for this list and was informed I’d signed up in the
>> past, but I’ll re-introduce myself.
>>
>>
>>
>> I’m Scott McHale and I organize and host the OSGeo Alberta Chapter meetup
>> each month here in Calgary and online. I would like to offer whatever help
>> I can in making interactions with our website and systems – particularly
>> the UserID creation – simpler and more understandable for folks like me who
>> are not particularly technical and for whom some of the interface and
>> language feels a bit confusing.
>>
>>
>>
>> I’ll admit I’m coming to this as a noob so, at the outset, I’m really
>> just hoping to get impressions from others as to the value and interest in
>> making changes in that regard as well as direction to any information I can
>> take the time to consume myself to help me understand that system better
>> before engaging others in the effort.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any and all thoughts are greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Scott.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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