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

r/programming	r/software	r/opensource	r/apple
r/ios	r/swift

Language subreddits

r/languagelearning	r/learnfrench	r/French	r/German
r/italianlearning	r/Portuguese	r/russian	r/learnspanish
r/Spanish	r/Svenska