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+1

I obviously would like to see everyone in the community using IRC, but I
realize it's not the most conducive to other languages and that in many
parts of the world that are other options that are the norm.

If we can document these other options so as to be able to direct new
comers to them as an alternative/precursor to IRC while noting that the
majority of the development community uses IRC... I think I'd be okay with
that. Hopefully as the new contributors get traction in the community and
learn the software they would switch to using IRC more as time went on.

-Kendall (diablo_rojo)

On Mon, 19 Mar 2018, 4:20 am 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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