LinguaLibre:Roles

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You want to support LinguaLibre's mission ? While the core contributors are recording words, those with no will to record can still contributes in various ways. Below are a list of classic roles, activities, events and others which are pushing forward.

Recording

See Special:Record Wizard.

Organizing events

See LinguaLibre:Events, LinguaLibre:Workshops, {{Grants table}}.

Communication

See LinguaLibre:Events, LinguaLibre:Workshops, {{Grants table}}.

Discussions

See Special:ActiveUsers, ...

Welcoming new users, opening conversation with actice users to exchange ideas and visions. Accumulating such discussion allows to give the project vision : what is needed for our contributors ? where can we help and smooth things ? etc.

Pages improvements

See LinguaLibre:Administrators.

Bot masters

See LinguaLibre:Bot, Github, [Phabricator].

Web developers

See LinguaLibre:Technical board, Github, [Phabricator].

Advocate

See LinguaLibre:Roles.

Any Lili user can talk within her or his network of wikimedians, friends, institutions about LinguaLibre mission to records the voices and words of all existing languages via its rapid recording system. We mostly need willing and diverse speakers. We also need various other profiles and skills able to take on the various necessary roles on LinguaLibre, from speaker to programmers, organizers and fundraisers.

Networkers / Coordinators

See LinguaLibre:Ambassy.

Connecting LinguaLibre community with people and institutions relevant to our mission is of high importance. New opportunities raise from connecting actors togethers. There is need for chatty people, who love to go here, there, discuss things and others, and then have the vision to see possible synergy between those actors, giving them a gentle push so sparkles and projects could emerge. A Wikimedian in your town speaks a rare East Indonesian language ? Tell him about LinguaLibre's dream. A friend work at an university in Ethiopia which work on minority language ? Send her/him a Lili's flyer. Some family member speaks French with deep Southern accent ? Ask them if they would be willing to record the 1000 most frequent words with you. A friend is teacher at a Computer Sciences faculty ? Let's see if they are looking for coding challenge and Open Source projects. Etc. Ask people what they do, what they love, find some magic.

Fundraiser / Call for projects

See {{Grants table}}, LinguaLibre:Events, LinguaLibre:Workshops.

Fundaisers may likely be the rarest roles. Within LinguaLibre, it's mainly connected to event organizers, and consist of users who look for small rapid grants for transports and foood, within the context of LinguaLibre:Workshops.

It also include coordinators or programmers who, given a call for project and a project in mind, will right down a project proposal, budget, and go to get that project's some funding. This last one requires some knowledge of the changing ecosystems of call for projects, which mainly turn around the Wikimedia Foundation, a bit around Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikimedia France, and other small chapters. The French Ministry of Education and its universities have also proven to be recurrent sponsors of LinguaLibre, a pattern which could likely work in other countries as well, given those countries are promoting local culture and looking for online presence and impact. Recording national minority and major languages' words in Open Licence has proven to be seductive for such MoE and languages-oriented Universities.

The table below list few such possible grants. Please, help us to monitor coming grants and call for language-related projects of all sources, then contribute to this table accordingly. See meta:Template:Grants.