I have 2 questions regarding this initiative:
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What are the guidelines for posting to community groups? More specifically, what kind of topics are encouraged in community groups vs. the public forums?
I assume some of the topics will be in the form of questions, and some of the questions will be about the design of Swift or general advices. Would this kind of questions be moved or cross-posted to the public forums, or made visible to those outside community groups? Personally, I've found past questions and answers on these forums a treasure trove for deeper understanding of the language. It would be unfortunate if some of the valuable insights are available to only a subset of the community.
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What's the process of adding new community groups? Can community members propose them, and if so, what are the criteria for approving them?
As far as I understand, there are many forms of marginalisation. In addition to race and gender, people have been treated differently simply because of where they''re born, what they believe, what profession they're in, what language/dialect they speak, how they look, how they think... We've already witnessed examples of at least marginalisation by language on these forums. We have seen many [1] [2] discussions regarding supporting people who don't speak english. And probably less visibly, I believe some community members have been disadvantaged by the repositories on GitHub (and other online resources) being inaccessible in their countries. Would these other marginalised groups be given their own community groups, and additional helps as well?