@Yug, thank you for your offer. @Aklapper what do you think?

LinguaLibre is listed in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Developers#Choose_a_software_project

I guess this task is Resolved now?

Sorry @Yug for my late reply here; this fell through the cracks. :(
Thanks a lot for joining and for adding LinguaLibre to the page!

@Yug: Is there some mailing list, IRC channel, or some other place where a new contributor could discuss things and get in contact?
I'm asking because currently, there are links to GitHub (the documentation is pretty good, thanks!) and to your user page at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Yug and I'm afraid that not many people will find that "Email this user" link in the side bar, and https://lingualibre.fr/ is in French only (which is not a problem per se, but might confuse some folks at first, so that might also welcome a short sentence that it's not required to speak French but that the website is in French?)

@Yug: Could you please reply?

To contact the project main actors, please use :

• the github project's issues : https://github.com/wikimedia-france/Lingua-Libre/issues
• contacts on the website : https://lingualibre.fr/contact including the mainling list: lingualibre [O] lists.wikimedia.fr
• twitter : https://twitter.com/LingLibre_WMFr

Note : thanks you guys for poking me !

@Yug: Hmm. Thing is, going to https://lists.wikimedia.fr/info/lingualibre you'd need to find Abonnement > Votre adresse de messagerie to subscribe.
In its current form I'm not convinced this should remain listed as a project on mw:New_Developers, because relevant info seems to be behind a a language barrier. :(

I don't know how this influences this task, but LinguaLibre was awarded with a grant recently: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/0x010C/LinguaLibre

I still wonder how to make things easier for developers who do not understand French.

So I tried myself last night as a guinea pig.
Describing my experience:

1. I went to https://lists.wikimedia.fr/subscribe/lingualibre and entered my email address in the field "Votre adresse de messagerie". I received an email:

Subject: Listes de Wikimédia France / abonnement à lingualibre
Quelqu'un - sans doute vous - a formulé une demande d'abonnement à la liste lingualibre@lists... (Cette requête a été effectuée depuis l'hôte 89.xxx.xxx.xxx).
Vous pouvez ignorer cette requête ou bien cliquer sur le lien suivant pour valider votre demande.: https://lists.wikimedia.fr/ticket/xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

2. After validating the request by clicking that link I got displayed in my browser:

La demande a été soumise au gestionnaire de la liste

3. Later on I received an email:

Bienvenue sur la liste lingualibre
Votre adresse d'abonné est : ...
Liste de discussion entre les bénévoles participant au développement de l'application.
La page d'accueil de la liste : https://lists.wikimedia.fr/info/lingualibre
Introduction aux listes de diffusion : https://lists.wikimedia.fr/help/introduction

For me this works, but I wonder how to have non-French speakers not give up at some point.
Or at least clarify on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Developers that you'll need to understand French to make it onto the mailing list?

Thoughts?

Post-hackathon @Yug shared with me a project via email centered around text-to-speech for LinguaLibre to be promoted to new developers via the guide. Just checking if we all are on the same page here cc @Aklapper @0x010C