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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: [brainstorming] strengthening KDE's global communities
From:       "Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss" <joseph () kde ! org>
Date:       2023-12-18 13:46:16
Message-ID: ef9318c8-1511-4dbc-b55c-1aac674ae1ea () kde ! org
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Hi!

On 12/15/23 20:09, Emir SARI wrote:
> Language based teams should be very welcome. It would also help languages, that \
> belong to similar language families see how their languages are used and see \
> differences/common points etc. 
> Speaking for my language, Turkish, there are other Turkic languages, that are \
> active, dormant, and some with no activity at all. I'd love to gather together at \
> some place where we can exchange ideas and make plans. 

Grouping some languages by language-family is an interesting idea. 
Thanks for the suggestion. Can you speculate a bit on what you thik 
might help Turkic languages specifically? Which languages are you 
thinking of? How might you network them and how could you imagine them 
helping each other?

> Speaking of blogs, it would be great to link these blogs to the respective language \
> forums at Discuss. I have an open ticket for this[1]. Personally, it'd help me a \
> lot to know, that should there be a place to discuss on things/news/ideas, it would \
> help flourish the communities. Sometimes it kills my drive to write new stuff, \
> knowing that there is no place where people could easily give feedback or \
> contribute ideas.

Good idea and a great use of exisiting tools/infrastructure.

 From the discussion at the link you sent, it seems this should be 
possible, but no action has been taken yet. I have added myself in CC to 
follow progress.

If I can help with anything, also by announcing changes here to the 
community, let me know.

> I've added some missing details for Turkish.

Great, thank you for adding this info.

> I think this plan lacks a roadmap for "how can we attract more people from \
> under-represented (i.e . not attended, not contributed) language communities. But \
> for the existing communities, it should work great. I recognise that it's hard to \
> attract people.

You are correct there is no road map at the moment. I am at the 
brainstorming stage and want to get some input from the community first.

> Maybe not a perfect success story, but it can be greatly improved. Currently there \
> is great support for most European languages, but other significant languages like \
> (no particular order) Arabic, Chinese languages, Hindi languages, African \
> languages, South Asian languages, Japanese etc. are not so particularly complete or \
> lacks by all means. Adding up these equals billions of potential people to reach.

I see the first step as strengthening existing communities/teams. Longer 
term, engaging under-represented languages and global communities would 
be wonderful, but that is for a later date. We have to start somewhere.

In the meantime I will soon come up with some concrete ideas for 
networking different teams with related interests in this area. Plasma 6 
megarelease may be a great opportunity to leverage for this and February 
is just around the corner.

Your input has been helpful, thank you!

Cheers,
Joseph

> Best regards,
> Emir (𐰽𐰺𐰍)
> 
> ** E-mail needs to stay simple
> ** Use plain text e-mail
> 
> [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475749
> 

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