Hi Sharan, Thanks for bring this top up. It's a common case that we are facing for the Apache projects from China. In the yesterday's ALC Beijing Podcast[1] recording, we have the similar disussion when talking about build up the community in ASF. The solution could be leveraging the free translation services[2][3] to compose the questions or check the answers, and we are also try to build the local community by encouraging voluteers to translate the policy documentations[4].
Using English in the Open Source world could help us get touch with more audices, we are try our best to encourage the contributor to use English when they are writing emails, have public discussion in github issues. When we hold the local meetup we prefer to use Chinese, but when we talk about the issue and PRs we perfer to use English. In ApacheCon Asia 2021[5]，we got 50% Chinese sessions and 50% English sessions and we have the Chinese version of website to open up the local market, I think this is banlance we choose now. [1]https://www.ximalaya.com/keji/37853515/ [2]https://www.deepl.com/ [3]https://translate.google.com [4]https://github.com/alc-beijing/translation [5]https://www.apachecon.com/acasia2021/ Willem Jiang Twitter: willemjiang Weibo: 姜宁willem On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 1:13 AM Sharan Foga <sha...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi All > > Recently I heard about an incident where a potential contributor wanted to > contribute something to an ASF project but had found it difficult to interact > because of the language barrier. They had very limited English skills. > > I'd like to start a discussion to get some ideas around what we could do in > general to encourage or help people who may find it hard to become involved > at the ASF because of language. > > I seem to remember that the latest ASF D&I Survey had some findings around > language confidence and that it had sometimes acted as a barrier for new > contributors. Do we have any plans, initiatives or existing tools that could > help with this?. It would be great to get some feedback from anyone that has > experienced this language barrier and discuss what could be done to improve > the situation and help others. > > Does anyone have any comments, suggestions or ideas? I'd like to hear them. > Please join the conversation and let's see what can be done. > > Thanks > Sharan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
