After being involved with Lil Nouns for about a month, I’m confident that expanding to other languages is key to our long-term success. My prop (Prop House) just recently passed in prop-house, which is the creation of an article targeted to Spanish speakers in Spanish to facilitate their onboarding. I’m also working on the website translation to remove the language barrier for newcomers that arrive at the lilnouns.wtf website.
I would love to be the one in charge of onboarding Spanish speakers once they arrive at our Discord. For this to happen, we would need the introduction to an International section where a #spanish channel can be found. I also want to connect with https://twitter.com/NounsDAOAmigos (a Spanish-focused team of NounsDao) to collaborate in proliferating nounish. Given my background and what I’m currently working in, I believe there’s no better person to fulfill this role.
I also believe assigning someone to every language added to the Discord to fulfill this role would be innovative and proactive. We could incorporate a Discord role for the word “Friend” but in that respective language (Amigo, friend in Spanish, or Freund, friend in German).
Why is it essential to remove language barriers?
Spanish is spoken by more than 559 million people globally. Internationality is Nounish. An astonishing number of people with skills and ideas would help us proliferate Nounish who can’t join because of a simple language barrier. Removing these barriers, language by language, slowly but surely, is essential for proliferating nounish.
With this grant, I would:
- Actively onboard any Spanish speaker into Lil Nouns by teaching/explaining anything they need/want to know.
- Connect with Spanish-speaking communities to collaborate and proliferate nounish.
- Orient newcomers on how they can start building and cooperating with other members of the DAO.
- Organize voice chats for Spanish speakers (in Spanish) to connect and participate.
- Connect with other members interested in doing this for their respective languages and brainstorm the most efficient way to integrate non-English speakers or not fluent speakers into building/cooperating and proliferating nounish.
Compensation:
I believe 2 ETH and 1 Lil Noun to pilot this first month would be appropriate compensation for this work.
I have plans to expand my role and do bigger things, especially here in the Dominican Republic, but for now, I believe this is essential work I can do. It would also help me understand what’s the best way to proliferate Nounish not only in Spanish but also in all other languages.
