<div dir="ltr"><div> FeiLong, Thanks for raising the pain points as a non-English native speaker. I had similar experience with you in last 5 years. Language, timezone, culture are the common barriers for diversity and inclusiveness. We could identify what's <br></div><div>the biggest obstacles for contributors to contribute happily. That could be done through discussions occurred in local meetup/online meeting in local language and bring conclusions back to the global community discussion. record the obstacles and find the way to overcome them. BTW, I really like the TC office hours. <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br></div><div><br>how you
<br>
think we could make our community more inclusive. What areas would
you improve
<br>
first?
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</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-10-14 3:22 GMT+08:00 feilong <span dir="ltr"><<a target="_blank" href="mailto:feilong@catalyst.net.nz">feilong@catalyst.net.nz</a>></span>:<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
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<p>Thanks for asking, Flavio. That's one of the topic I mentioned in
my candidacy, that's because as a Chinese working on OpenStack in
the past 6 years, I do have some experiences about this though I
agree it couldn't be done in 1 cycle/year. But I think it's still
a domain I can contribute for OpenStack.</p>
<p>I can still remember I had to join the Glance meeting at 2:00AM,
and was challenged because of saying "Hi guys" in a public channel
though "Hi guys" is used very common in New Zealand. Should we
expect a non-English native speaker to understand the details
between “Hi there", "Hi guys" and "Hi folks"? I think that's the
language and culture barrier for many new contributors. We (Brian,
Erno） even tried to propose a panel at summit to discuss it
before. Currently, it's more important than ever to keep those new
contributors due to the changes happening around OpenStack
nowadays.<br>
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<div class="gmail-m_6472367494856315076moz-cite-prefix">On 14/10/17 01:45, Flavio Percoco
wrote:<br>
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</div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="gmail-h5">Greetings,
<br>
<br>
Some of you, TC candidates, expressed concerns about diversity and
inclusiveness
<br>
(or inclusivity, depending on your taste) in your candidacy. I
believe this is a
<br>
broad, and some times ill-used, topic so, I'd like to know, from
y'all, how you
<br>
think we could make our community more inclusive. What areas would
you improve
<br>
first?
<br>
<br>
Thank you,
<br>
Flavio
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@flaper87
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