Keyboard Communities Manager (Volunteer)

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Description

Essentially, the role is to be the public face of Translation Commons to its Keyboard Communities. These are indigenous language communities that seek to develop keyboards.

It is understood this is a volunteer and part-time role. To be clear, making keyboard creation scalable is mostly about making it repeatable and well-defined, as opposed to having very large numbers of simultaneous projects. It seems likely that the number of communities interested in keyboard creation in 2023 will be manageable.

The KCM will:

• Serve as an evangelist and a liaison between TC and community members.
• Work with indigenous communities, where respect, listening and understanding is vital.
• Work with the web and social media team, and the educator’s group etc. to promote/solicit keyboard projects.
• Assist in identifying communities that may have a need.
• Reach out to indigenous language communities.
• Work with the keyboard team to identify information necessary to vet potential projects.
• Establish and promote a communications channel for communities to share problems and solutions and to help each other.
• Identify common information requests that we should address via FAQ or documentation, etc.
• Identify community interest in keyboard creation training or workshop events and help organize.
• Assist Keyboard team with project management.
• Serve as a model for creating additional Communities Manager roles
• Help create additional communities

• Create the framework and requirements for attracting volunteers to become community managers.
• Create the framework and requirements for attracting volunteers to become community managers.
• Create guidelines for our community managers to interact with communities.
• Establish basic traits and skills that community managers should have to work with indigenous communities, i.e. respect, listening and understandingl.
• Establish basic traits and skills that community members should have to work with technology and technical staff.
• Manage the other CMs.