agrevet wrote:
Hi Jean-Marie,
To respond to your questions:
infograf768 wrote:
Will a language/team represented by a unique translator/interlocutor ( we have a few) have the same voting power as a language/team with one or many local communities (organised each around a different site)?
Within a language/team, will a single individual have the same voting power as an entire community? For example a single French or Italian person versus all joomla.fr or joomla.it ?
Within a language/team, will a single individual have the same voting power as an entire community? For example a single French or Italian person versus all joomla.fr or joomla.it ?
Each team, regardless of its size, will have one vote in the department. The teams in the Local Communities Department will be organized by country, with the possibility of sub-teams within a country group if more than one language is spoken.
The Local Communities Department can serve many functions: to help people find their way to local communities, to facilitate the formation of JUGs, to serve as an accessible entryway to help people get involved in international teams, to be a resource for teams like marketing to get insight on culture-specific messages, and also to become a future recruitment platform for localization, etc. The list goes on and on with many possibilities, and works both ways: to strengthen local communities, and also increase involvement in all levels of the project.
I'm not sure I understand your second question. Do you mean can a single person on a team cast a vote on behalf of a community, or in some way represent or speak for an entire community? Let me know if I've got that right or wrong - thanks.
The issue here is simple: the voting power. Who votes for the Department leader who would be on OSM board.
If I understand well, for you, a Team is made of all volunteers from the same country speaking the same language and there is one vote per Team.
Case 1: Therefore, if I personally want more voting power, I just have to declare myself as French Basque speaker + Breton speaker + Provençal speaker, etc. This will give me as many votes as languages I pretend or do speak, therefore as many teams...
Then If I make an alliance with other one person/Teams —East Syriac, Cherokee, Corsican, Ongan (Andaman language spoken by 300 people), etc.— I could theoretically get a majority and decide of the Team Leader! Even if other Teams like Italian, Dutch, French, etc. do represent many more people involved in joomla directly or indirectly.
Case 2: Let's say we have a French (fr-FR) volunteer who is not member of joomla.fr. He will be member of the French (France) country team. One voice. Therefore if joomla.fr wants to have the weight that corresponds to its real community, the only way would be to get 50 people from joomla.fr to sign as volunteers (easy enough) in order for the French (fr-FR) team to be correctly represented...
As I said in my earlier post, this makes no sense. We do NOT need a specific Department. We need specific communications channels to better collaborate, whether it concern languages (various kind of translations) OR country (various types of events) AND increase involvement.
Statistics: Posted by infograf768 — Fri Apr 17, 2015 7:56 am
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