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+1 Colleen

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018, 7:20 PM Colleen Murphy <colleen at gazlene.net> wrote:

> This discussion has gone completely off topic. The question from Jeremy
> was about easing language barriers:
>
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018, at 1:58 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
>
> > Any ideas on whether we should suggest that people who are finding
> > English challenging try to reach out on one of our language-specific
> > mailing lists for a language in which they are more fluent (and then
> > perhaps arrange there for a video conference with another
> > contributor who can help them if that's more convenient)?
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Colleen
>
> [1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-zh/
>
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