<div dir="ltr">Hello All, Several months ago I asked a question on this list related to the membership list review that was ongoing. <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2017-June/019832.html">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2017-June/019832.html</a> 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: <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization</a> 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 </div>