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How to support these Regional Coordinators is the big question. Finding coordinators doesn't seem to be the challenge – we're thinking through this process because we have people in different regions (India, South America, Africa, etc) who are approaching us and expressing interest in this type of contribution.
Some ways we can support the Regional Coordinators include:
- Infrastructure: We can create a mailing list and chat channel (following the community-NAME convention), meetings and space on the wiki for each region. Without this infrastructure the only way we've been connecting people in a region is through emails I send to people in the same region with the subject 'Building the Hyperledger community in NAME'
- Budget: We could allocate a portion of the Marketing budget towards funding things that would help these regional and local coordinators pull something together.
- Staff time: We can make ourselves available to Regional Coordinators when we travel so that they can organize a tour with staff members. We can involve Regional Coordinators in other aspects of our work as appropriate – for instance, would it make sense to have language representatives in the Marketing Committee call to help us bring our marketing efforts to non-English speakers?
- Other ideas for support...
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