Hi Friends, I want to create a small team made up of representatives from all the Inkscape forums which are listed on the Community page of the website. (https://inkscape.org/en/community/) This could be useful for making certain announcements to a broader community of Inkscape users, only a fraction of which are even aware of the mailing lists. For example, it would be nice to have a message posted in all the forums, linking to the recent news items about the need for donations for Hackfest. (https://inkscape.org/en/news/2015/02/11/inkscape-developers-need-your-help/). For another example, to announce a world-wide drawing competition, perhaps such as the About Screen contest, or others which may be created in the future.
In the past, since I only understand English, I've run into problems trying to figure out who the admins are, for the non-English forums, and problems communicating, even if I can identify the admins. But that was before I joined this user list. And so now, maybe I can reach out on this mailing list, and begin to build this team.
It would involve very little efforts or time/energy, on the part of these volunteers. Such representatives would receive very occasional emails from me, with the links and info that needs to be posted. We just need 1 person from each of the forums listed below, who would be willing to receive these email messages, and post the info in new topics on the appropriate board of their forum. It doesn't have to be the admin of the forum (but it could be). Any registered member who is allowed to post messages could do the job.
InkscapeForum.com - I can post here myself Inkscape Community - same here InkscapeForum.de (German forum) - we already have a volunteer for this forum
Inkscapeforum.it (Italian forum) Open Draw Community (another German forum) LinuxGraphic.org's Inkscape board (French forum) Russian Inkscape forum (Russian) Inkscape Google Plus Community (https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/117926126525789007045)
Just reply to this mail with your name and contact info. If you don't want to announce your address on the mailing list, just send the reply to me directly.
And by the way, I know there are more Inkscape forums in existence, which are not listed on the Community page. I'd be very happy to add them to the list, if the admins of those forums would like to be listed. Just reply to this message, to let me know.
Thanks for your help :-)