[brainstorming] strengthening KDE's global communities

[Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss]

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)
> 
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> [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475749
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