[IAEP] Membership polling - why so few localizers?

[Chris Leonard]

Hello All,

Several months ago I asked a question on this list related to the
membership list review that was ongoing.

http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2017-June/019832.html

I'd like to repeat the question as I got no answer on the "Verified Sugar
Labs member's list" thread that was started by Laura Vargas.

Has anyone involved in the election / membership list generation ever
reached out to the Sugar Labs Localization Community about registering for
the Sugar Labs membership that their contributions have earned them?

It is a simple fact that most localizers are not as tightly attached to
software projects and their ongoing discussions as developers and other
contributors, but that is because they are often working across many
projects in support of their language.  Their contributions are nonetheless
essential and should be properly valued.

Now that we have additional members on the membership and elections
committees, I would like to request that proper outreach be made to our
localizers via the communication channel where they can usually be found:

http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization

We have had incredible contributions made in the realm of translations in
the past year alone, and it would be a gross inequality if they were not
attempts to engage these community members who contribute so much.

Below is just a sampling with Pootle usernames and recent submissions
listed by language (and only those over 100 submissions).  Very few of
these names are on the membership lists I have seen.  We can do better with
outreach to active community members than that.


*Acholi*
chanchumgpa     6475
Olot     5861
denish     857
LostInMorvan    362

*Afrikaans*
OdettePretorius     532

*Albanian*
Besnik_b     1037

*Amharic*
dbekele     577

*Aragonese*
juanpabl     414

*Armenian*
Jasmine     866

*Catalan*
rbuj     7472

*Chinese (China)*
Jason     395
joyhe     119

*Chinese (Taiwan)*
YuanChao     393

*Croatian*
boput     496

*Czech*
pbo     304

*Danish*
dark159123     804

*Dutch*
whe     3380

*French*
LostInMorvan     3223
StephaneDT22     666
krhome     165

*Galician*
mbouzada     710
saravpaz     379

*German*
thoraki     631
mschlager     543
Pinkbluesoul     142
estherw     140

*Guaraní (Paraguay)*
MartínOesterreich     21098

*Hebrew*
Yaron     2761

*Hindi*
iamutkarshtiwari     1107
Manas     516
GeekyShiva     179
yatinmaan     148

*Hungarian*
ursus     488

*Icelandic*
sveinki     147

*Igbo*
chimosky     1250
samsongoddy     768
cblinks     541
thebank     389

*Indonesian*
andika     3737

*Italian*
carlo     825
eliassecchi     174
andretna     137

*Japanese*
sujiniku     182

*Korean*
mimibg     510

*Lithuanian*
Moo     1645

*Malagasy*
Riella     114

*Malay*
ariessa     995

*Malayalam*
lanevo     839

*Mongolian*
Bulgantamir     216
anderson861     195

*Nepali*
buddhi.raj     437

*Persian (Farsi)*
Soori     1676
makba2     1211
Florence     842
Parmis     187

*Polish*
ty221     1685

*Portuguese*
unkuiri     1543

*Portuguese (Brasil)*
mariana.dias     1012
betoraposa     677
joaoeliakin     638
fusiondevices     310
fefcas     228

*Romanian*
sandraelazar     844

*Russian*
rootacat     2305
Arcueid     1052

*Slovak*
jana     1998

*Songhai Languages*
songhay     2374

*Spanish*
AlanJAS     1838
tch     530
godiard     216
german     132

*Swedish*
ajonsson     8476

*Telegu*
GeeKrypter     177

*Ukranian*
lxlalexlxl     1670
yurchor     1222
cyper     169

*Vietnamese*
thuyn     720
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