<div dir="auto"><div>+1 Colleen<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 19, 2018, 7:20 PM Colleen Murphy <<a href="mailto:colleen@gazlene.net">colleen@gazlene.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This discussion has gone completely off topic. The question from Jeremy was about easing language barriers:<br>
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2018, at 1:58 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:<br>
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> Any ideas on whether we should suggest that people who are finding<br>
> English challenging try to reach out on one of our language-specific<br>
> mailing lists for a language in which they are more fluent (and then<br>
> perhaps arrange there for a video conference with another<br>
> contributor who can help them if that's more convenient)?<br>
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The difficulty in setting up an IRC bouncer and whether it is even a good idea to encourage or require IRC persistence for OpenStack contributors is a completely orthogonal problem, it is absolutely not culturally or language specific.<br>
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What is culturally specific is where existing OpenStack communities already congregate. I've been told there is a vibrant OpenStack community on WeChat in China. But the Chinese mailing list is very low traffic[1]. So it would seem to me that sending newcomers into a black hole of a mailing list would be very discouraging, but encouraging their participation on a platform where they could actually find answers in their language could be beneficial to them.<br>
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Colleen<br>
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[1] <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-zh/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-zh/</a><br>
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