On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxstrom@gmail.com wrote:
On 15 June 2011 17:34, Alec Conroy alecmconroy@gmail.com wrote:
The important point of doing this would be:
- to identify those users with unique language skills and recruit them
Recruit them to do what?
Recruit them to help the global community with itself. There are currently-unidentified individuals with a special gift that will enable them to unite the global community in a way beyond that of monolingual members. Most recently, we needed a translator army to help us run the elections, but the need for translators isn't going away. Everyone language we have needs to have a clear and direct translation path so it can participate in the movement.
- to identify projects and languages that are 'most disconnected'
from the English hub, so we can make them less disconnected.
Can we make them less disconnected? How?
First and foremost by pointing out to us that a certain community is isolated. This will hopefully cause members of the global community to reach out to the isolated community. At the same time, it will hopefully inspire members of the isolated community to reach out to the global community.
In extreme cases, it's not inconceivable that the foundation has a direct role to play in helping underrepresented projects communicate with the rest of us.
Alec