It is a bit of a “community week” here at the OpenChain Project, and you will see various things from Open Source Summit Europe appearing across our news and social media. However, there is another item we wanted to flag from Open Source Summit North America recently.
OpenChain is a totally global project, with contributors from three continents (we are open to every other continent contributing as well), and that means we operate in a lot of languages. That means far more than translation. It means cognitive load, and other challenges.
There was a wonderful talk from Naomichi Shima and Norio Kobota at Sony Group Corporation (voting alternate and board members of OpenChain respectively) on this topic at OSS NA. It was called “Empowering Asian Contributions: The Rise of Regional User Groups in Open Source Communities”
There is something really important contained in this presentation about how much effort is needed to communicate across language barriers. While the OpenChain Project has always tried to pay attention to this, and we have developed various workflows and methods over the last nine years, we want to (a) make sure we keep doing that effectively and (b) make sure every other project has access to our lessons learned.
