Scribe-iOS Outreach 👋🚀

Sharing and promoting Scribe-iOS

This pinned issue is for discussing where and how best to promote Scribe-iOS. The purpose is to spread the word so that others can find Scribe-iOS as potential users, to provide feedback and to grow the contributors base. The issue text will be edited as the discussion below progresses :)

Everyone is welcome to share their input, and efforts to share Scribe-iOS are much appreciated! Communities revolving around open-source, open-data, Wikidata, Wikimedia, Swift, iOS, iPadOS, language learning and the languages Scribe-iOS supports should all be considered.

Where Scribe-iOS is currently posted:

• Wikimedia New Developers page
• Wikidata tools for lexicographical data
• open-source-ios-apps
• up-for-grabs.net (GitHub)
• firstcontributions.github.io (GitHub)
• 24 Pull Requests (GitHub)
• CodeTriage (GitHub)

Organizations that have featured Scribe-iOS:

• Wikimedia: new developers page and hackathons
• Wikimedia Deutschland: Wikidata events, blogposts and social media
• CocoaHeads Berlin: meetups and social media

Places where Scribe-iOS outreach could occur:

General

• Mastodon - suggested shares and posts welcome!
• Hacker News
• Product Hunt

Conferences

• Swift Conf
• Slash Berlin

Language and learning institutions

• Forums for places where people learn programming as new developers are welcome
• Major language institutions for a given language
  • For example the Goethe-Institut, Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache, Académie française, Institut de France, etc
  • See List of language regulators on Wiki
  • See Higher education institutions that teach Swift
• University language learning departments for the languages that Scribe-iOS supports
• Podcasts and other groups that support/serve language learners
• Institutions that are trying to preserve languages as a Scribe-iOS keyboard could be made for them

Tech subreddits

Language subreddits

Start by reading the pinned issue and its existing discussion, then review the current outreach links and suggested communities. Any completed work should produce a specific, agreed outreach action and update the issue with the resulting information or link.