<html><body><div dir="ltr">Hello again Scott,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I did an okay "service provider" welcome here: <font color="#419cff"><a href="https://www.osgeo.org/community/getting-started-osgeo/add-service-provider/">https://www.osgeo.org/community/getting-started-osgeo/add-service-provider/</a></font><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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.</div><div dir="ltr">--<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div><br>
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<div dir="auto">Thanks for joining us Scott, and welcome!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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). </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The actual new member sign up page is very much in need of help: <div><a href="https://id.osgeo.org/ldap/create">https://id.osgeo.org/ldap/create</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div>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...), ... <span style="float:none;display:inline!important;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">I</span><span style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">mprovements are not a "rethink" which is where I hope your strengths are directed :)</span></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The page is still serving many competing needs with different levels of complexity and is not setup to welcome new users. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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).</div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 5:04 PM Scott McHale via Marketing <<a href="mailto:marketing@lists.osgeo.org">marketing@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div lang="EN-CA" link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-3373206663765356831WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hello,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I just signed up for this list and was informed I’d signed up in the past, but I’ll re-introduce myself.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Any and all thoughts are greatly appreciated.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br>Thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Scott.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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