Hi ilv,
ilv@torproject.org:
I want to propose the idea of having localized mailing lists. It is obvious that there is a language barrier for users, volunteers and new contributors that don't handle english very well or at all. Yes, you could say that having yet another mailing list won't help, but I would argue that for non-english speakers might be a space for discussion and communication that you might not find in lists such as tor-talk, tor-dev or tor-project.
I can verify that this is a fact according to my life experience in LATAM and makes a lot of sense to have such a LATAM (language) specific mailing list.
Mailing lists in plural sounds scary so I propose to start with the following:
Name: tor-lang-es@lists.torproject.org (according to #15140 [0] the main issue in the past was the name).
Purpose: General discussion in Spanish, including announcements, user questions and technical discussion.
Do you think that including discussion in Portuguese will make sense?
For what I have seen and heard of events in Latin America I think there is enough "critical mass" to consider this. And if we do, there is a good chance this community gets more cohesion and grow.
What if we use the global-south mailing list? From what I know there are already a lot of people from LATAM there and many discussions take place in Portuñol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portu%C3%B1ol), this way we are not going to lose people in the process of moving/migrating to another mailing list.
Since the global-south name is horrible and we have never gone into the process of changing I guess it will make sense to rename the list (and the IRC channe) and then announce it to the world as the LATAM Tor mailing list?
Saudações, ~Vasilis