[Community-Discuss] Improving participation of Francophone and Arab countries

[Mark Elkins]

On Sat, 2016-01-02 at 03:06 +0400, Chevalier du Borg wrote:
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> 2016-01-01 23:57 GMT+04:00 Hytham El-Nakhal <hytham at tra.gov.eg>:
>         Hi Borg and All,
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>         Happy New Year for All :)
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>         @Borg, Let's continue our brain-storm on how to increase
>         participation from Francophone and Arab countries on the
>         Community mailing-list.
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>         

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> APATHY! (they don't really care). i willing to bet that you can
> translate entire site into arabic or french and the community
> engagement (as evidence by RPD discussions etc will not change. 
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> to jump straight to translation might be solving the wrong problem. my
> evidence for APATHY is the number of french/arabic on this list even
> discussing this (4 arabics so far and 8 french)
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> to be clear, there's APATHY even in anglophones ...that's why you have
> the same 8 - 10 people doing all the discussion.
> 
The other possible explanation is that AFRINIC is seen as doing a
reasonable job, so for many people, there is no reason for them to raise
their voices. 


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