We don't have a physical office at Global Voices, so we rely on various communication channels to interact and collaborate on our work. Google Groups email lists and Slack chat channels are the most common tools used, but depending on the context others are also employed.

This document is a comprehensive list of communication channels used by Global Voices. It is sorted by sections of GV, so please use the table of contents to find channels related to a specific project or aspect of GV.

If you are new or want to read an overview of communication, please see Communication Within GV.

For notes on privacy, profiles, subscribing and unsubscribing, see the Notes on Google Groups section below.

Global Groups

GV Community

“GV Community” Google Group – Full policy and guidelines 

A universal mailing list for everyone involved in GV. Used for major announcements as well as discussion and sharing between contributors about Global Voices, our mission, and related issues and opportunities.

If you are an active contributor not subscribed to this list, please contact your editor or manager and get on the list ASAP.

GV Newsroom Editors

GV Newsroom Editors – Full policy and guidelines TBD

This is a group for editors-only. Regional editors, sub-editors and the core team use this list for announcements and discussion related to editorial strategy and the day-to-day editorial operation of GV.

Editors within GV should automatically be added to and removed from this group as necessary. If you are an editor and not subscribed, please contact the Managing Editor.

GV Lingua Managers

GV Lingua – Full policy and guidelines TBD

This group is for translation managers (administrators of Lingua sites) only. It is used for announcements and discussion related to operating a Lingua site in a management role.

Lingua managers should automatically be added to and removed from this group as necessary. If you are a Lingua manager but not in this group, please contact the Lingua Director.

Advox Riseup list

A discussion group for contributors and participants in Global Voices Advox.

HOW TO SUBSCRIBE: This list uses Riseup, an open, non-profit platform that offers greater security than Google Groups. If you're interested in joining the list, please send an email to gvadvocacy-subscribe [at] lists [dot] riseup [dot] net with “Subscribe me!” in the subject line. Tell us a bit about why you are interested in joining the community, and we'll respond as soon as we can.

GV Community Council

GV Council Google Group • Full policy and guidelines

A discussion group for the 2018 Community Council. Message types expected in this group: Announcements about Council activities, discussion of issues related to the consultation and the future of Global Voices, and questions and concerns about Council process and norms.

Rising Voices

Rising Voices Google Group – Full policy and guidelines

Manager: Rising Voices director ( found on the Our People page).

A discussion group for the Rising Voices project. We welcome anyone interested in ICT for development, Rising Voices projects, etc.

Other global discussion groups

• Global Voices Radio – Full policy and guidelines TBD
• GV Life Styles – Full policy and guidelines TBD
• GV NewsFrames – Full policy and guidelines TBD
• GV Social Media Team – Full policy and guidelines TBD
• GV for Education – Full policy and guidelines TBD
• GV Green Club – Full policy and guidelines TBD
• GV Research – Full policy and guidelines TBD
• GV Tech – Full policy and guidelines TBD

Region and Language Editorial groups

Each editorial group within GV, regional or linguistic, has a Google Group for announcements and discussion between the editor and contributors. All GV authors (contributors who write original posts) should automatically be added and removed from the group(s) for their region(s) as needed.

If you are an author and not yet in a group, please contact your editor, or request to join the relevant group(s) below.

These lists all share the GV Editorial Team Google Groups Shared Policy and Guidelines. For each editorial team group, the “manager” is considered to be the current editor for the relevant region or topic, indicated below, along with the Managing Editor. A full list of current editors can be found on the Our People page.

Region/Language	Group	Manager
Caribbean	GV-Caribbean Google Group	Caribbean editor
Central and Eastern Europe (and Europe in General)	GV-CEE and Europe Google Group	Eastern & Central Europe Editor
Sub-Saharan Africa	GV-Sub-Saharan Africa Google Group	Sub-Saharan Africa Community Manager
Middle East and North Africa	MidEastGV Google Group	MENA editor
USA	GV-USA Google Group	Managing editor
Latin America	GV-Americas Google Group	Latin America editor
South Asia	GV-South Asia Google Group	South Asia editor
South-East Asia	GV South-East Asia Google Group	South-East Asia editor
Japan	GV Japan Google Group	Japan editor
East Asia	GV-East Asia Google Group	North-East Asia Editor
Portuguese	GV Lusofonia Google Group	Lusophone Africa Editor & Brazil Editor
Turkey	GVTurkey Google Group	Central Asia, Caucasus & Turkey Editor

Lingua Translation Site Groups

Each GV Lingua translation site has its own Google Group to which all contributors should be subscribed. You can use these groups to ask questions of your fellow translators or send feedback via. your Lingua site manager.

If you are a translator for GV but aren't yet subscribed to the relevant Google Group below, please send a request to join!

These lists all share the same Policy and Guidelines, with managerial responsibility for the group shared between the current Lingua Manager and the Translation Manager of the relevant site.

Language	Group	Manager
Albanian	Global Voices in Albanian	Albanian Translation Manager
Amharic	Global Voices in Amharic	Amharic Translation Manager
Arabic	Global Voices in Arabic	Arabic Translation Manager
Bangla	Global Voices in Bangla	Bangla Translation Manager
Bulgarian	Global Voices in Bulgarian	Bulgarian Translation Manager
Burmese	Global Voices in Burmese	Burmese Translation Manager
Català	Global Voices in Català	Català Translation Manager
Chinese	Global Voices in Chinese	Chinese Translation Manager
Czech	Global Voices in Czech	Czech Translation Manager
Danish	Global Voices in Danish	Danish Translation Manager
Dutch	Global Voices in Dutch	Dutch Translation Manager
Esperanto	Global Voices in Esperanto	Esperanto Translation Manager
Farsi	Global Voices in Farsi	Farsi Translation Manager
Filipino	Global Voices in Filipino	Filipino Translation Manager
French	Global Voices in French	French Translation Manager
German	Global Voices in German	German Translation Manager
Greek	Global Voices in Greek	Greek Translation Manager
Hebrew	Global Voices in Hebrew	Hebrew Translation Manager
Hindi	Global Voices in Hindi	Hindi Translation Manager
Hungarian	Global Voices in Hungarian	Hungarian Translation Manager
Indonesian	Global Voices in Indonesian	Indonesian Translation Manager
Italian	Global Voices in Italian	Italian Translation Manager
Japanese	Global Voices in Japanese	Japanese Translation Manager
Khmer	Global Voices in Khmer	Khmer Translation Manager
Korean	Global Voices in Korean	Korean Translation Manager
Macedonian	Global Voices in Macedonian	Macedonian Translation Manager
Nubian	Global Voices in Nubian	Nubian Translation Manager
Odia	Global Voices in Odia	Odia Translation Manager
Polska	Global Voices in Polska	Polish Translation manager
Portuguese	Global Voices in Portuguese	Portuguese Translation manager
Punjabi	Global Voices in Punjabi	Punjabi Translation manager
Romanian	Global Voices in Romanian	Romanian Translation manager
Russian	Global Voices in Russian	Russian Translation manager
Serbian	Global Voices in Serbian	Serbian Translation manager
Spanish	Global Voices in Spanish	Spanish Translation manager
Swahili	Global Voices in Swahili	Swahili Translation manager
Swedish	Global Voices in Swedish	Swedish Translation manager
Turkish	Global Voices in Turkish	Turkish Translation manager
Ukrainian	Global Voices in Ukrainian	Ukrainian Translation manager
Urdu	Global Voices in Urdu	Urdu Translation manager
Uzbek	Global Voices in Uzbek	Uzbek Translation manager
Yoruba	Global Voices in Yoruba	Yoruba Translation manager

 

Lingua into English translators

These are specialized groups focusing on the important project of ensuring posts written in other languages are quickly translated into English so they can be accessible to as many people (and translators) as possible.

These groups all share  GV Special Topics Google Groups – Shared Policy and Guidelines as their official guidelines. The managers of each group are the Lingua Director and relevant Lingua manager.

If you'd like to be involved in one of these groups, please contact the respective newsroom editor, who can be found on the Our People page.

Language	Group	Manager
Portuguese	Global Voices Portuguese to English	Brazil Editor & Lusophone Africa Editor
Russian	Global Voices Russian to English	Eurasia Editor
Spanish	Global Voices Spanish to English	Latin America Editor
French	Global Voices French into English	Francophone Editor

Notes on Google Groups

Privacy warning

Conversations on the Global Voices Google Groups are considered private to the community and not for public dissemination. At the same time, privacy cannot be guaranteed in any large group, so please do not share sensitive information via. Google Groups. See Communication and Safety Guidelines for more information.

Applying for group membership

If you feel you should be a member of any of the groups listed above, please apply to join!

• Click the group link above to go to the homepage of that Google Group
• If there is a link to Apply for membership you can use it to directly request to be added to the group, if not you can use the contact the owner and the manager link to send a message to the manager.
• In either scenario, please always include the following information in the text box of your request so we can validate that you are who you say you are:
  • Your full name as it displays on your Global Voices profile
  • Your email used on GV sites
  • A link to your GV profile on the GV site where you contribute
  • The name of your editors or translation managers who know you
  • How you participate in GV and why you should be on the list

When you submit this application or message the list manager will be notified and will check you out and add you to the list as soon as possible.

Updating your Profile

We ask that all members of Google Groups update their profile to have as much information as they feel comfortable with, including name, blog link, photo, email address, geographic location, and phone number. This information can be very helpful to administrators and fellow members who use the group directory search.

Email delivery settings

Many people don't have the time to read all emails in all lists, so it is very good to customize your Membership and email settings and specifically the Email delivery preference option according to your capacity/interest. Options include receiving all emails directly, getting a daily summary, or getting no email at all (in which case you can visit the group homepage to use it like a web “forum”).

To change your email delivery settings:

• Visit the group homepage, either using the links above or by going to groups.google.com and finding the group in the sidebar.
• Find the My Settings  button (a little person with a gear icon), click it, then choose Membership and email settings
• Review the information there and pick the Email delivery preference option that meets your needs then click Save.

Unsubscribing

To unsubscribe to any of our groups:

• Go to the group homepage as described above
• Fine the My Settings button and click it
• Choose Leave this group

Remember that it isn't necessary to leave the group to stop receiving email! If you are just overwhelmed by the amount of posts, you can use the Email delivery settings described above to stop getting messages in your inbox, and instead check the group when you are curious using the forum feature.

If you are leaving Global Voices for good, it is always good to let your editor know and say goodbye. Sorry to see you go!