Erica,
There are a lot of emails on this list and Wikimedia-l starting with "you can find translations of this announcement on meta". I think this is a very effective way to indicate translations where needed, while keeping the announcement in a single place. Sending us to a link feels like the catchy press titles: "you won't believe what's happening! Click here to find out!"
Second, as much as we want to be multilingual, participating in the technical community without some command of English is basically impossible. In that respect, the technical audience is not the same as a general Wikimedia audience.
My 2c,
Strainu
Pe luni, 10 octombrie 2022, Erica Litrenta <elitrenta@wikimedia.org> a scris:
> (Sorry to "hijack" the thread, I am not personally involved in TDF but since I was the original "messenger", I'm interested in learning more about Daniel's POV.
> The original email linked to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_decision_making/Community_representation .
> While I'm well aware that info a click away is not optimal, I'm definitely more against walls of text that may be hard to understand for non-native readers.
> That page was marked for translation instead, and among other things, it offered exactly the process you are describing, and the second email asked specifically for recommendations.
> We had /also/ asked for recs to a few dozens colleagues, and none of the people pinged gave their availability.
> Interested to hear what could have been done differently.)
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 1:06 PM Daniel Kinzler <dkinzler@wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>> Am 06.10.2022 um 08:52 schrieb Linh Nguyen:
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>> Kunal,
>> I hear you but we only have 3 people who actually put the effort into applying for the position. We are appointing people who are at least trying to help. If you want to help in the process please feel free to put your name on the list.
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>> The original mail doesn't really make it clear what impact one might have by joining, or what would be expected of a member. Asking people to click a link for details loses most of the audience already.
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>> One thing that has worked pretty well in the past when we were looking for people to join TechCom was to ask for nominations, rather than volunteers. We'd then reach out to the people who were nominated, and asked them if they were interested. Self-nominations were of course also fine.
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>> Another thing that might work is to directly approach active volunteer contributors to production code. There really aren't so many really active ones. Ten, maybe.
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>> Wikimedia Foundation
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