Details on contact channels

[drolbr]

Hi Mikel,

thank for the work on the Welcome Mat.

I would like to add to this work with a more detailed list of communication channels. I tried my best to add the relevant channels. But of course I'm happy to add further channels.

I have removed to reference to the Wiki because both the referred page wiki.openstreetmap.org does not exist in the welcome mat and I deem the start page of the wiki both unfit to help newbies for orientation and to give people a warm welcome.

Best regards,
Roland

[mikelmaron]

Thanks @drolbr. There's discussion on the approach to integrate the osm-community-index to improve discoverability of communication channels. Let's work on that here

[drolbr]

Dear Mikel,

thank you for the feedback.

I'm happy to have Brian's tool included in the long term. But right now, as I see this, it is still a good deal away from having a end-user friendly interface like (the local meetup map)[http://usergroups.openstreetmap.de/]. A newbie right now would have to navigate through a github repo or would have to set up and account and start and editing session (including a ton of extra activity like confirming the account, clicking away an iD tutorial the user later might want to get back to and so on) to get information on a local contact channel.

In addition, changes like mentioning the license change in the history and a reference to changesets comments is independent of Brian's tool.

I therefore suggest to proceed with a maybe reworked version of this pull request right now and to add Brian's tool once it is end-user ready.

Best regards,
Roland

[mikelmaron]

changes like mentioning the license change in the history and a reference to changesets comments is independent of Brian's tool.

Can we separate out the changes to history page in another PR?