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We don't have a physical office at Global Voices, but we do have a whole lot of Google Groups where authors, editors, and translators interact to make things happen on the Global Voices and in our broader community.
Privacy note: Conversations on the Global Voices Gooogle Groups are considered private to the community and not for public dissemination.
Profiles: We ask that all members of Google Groups [update their profile] with as much information as they feel comfortable with, including: name, blog link, photo, email address, geographic location, and phone number. This is very helpful in group archive searches.
Universal: Absolutely everyone who is an author, translator, or editor at Global Voices should be a member of the [GV Authors, Editors, Translators group]. Please ask to be invited if you are not, providing information about your affiliation.
Regional: Most regions have their own groups as well, please ask relevant editors to be included in them if you would like to contribute.
Here is a graphic overview of the many different groups that existed as of September 2008.
Contents
Active Mailing Lists
Please apply to be accepted to any of the following groups if you think you should belong to them. Membership is subject to approval by the group's administrator, so don't forget to let them know who you are and which editorial or Lingua group you belong to.
Public
"GV Authors, Editors, Translators" Group (universal mailing list for all editors, authors, translators of Global Voices)
GV-Lingua-All (for all translators and Lingua editors of Global Voices)
Non-regional
Advox (for anyone who would like to be kept up to date with GV Advocacy)
GV-Tech (for anyone who wants to help test new functions or discuss technical issues with Wordpress, servers, etc)
GV Podcast (for anyone who want to help produce the monthly podcast)
GV-Research (for anyone doing academic research or writing books related to citizen media or Global Voices)
GV Sub-Editors (for volunteers who help with corrections and sub-editing of English content)
Rising Voices (for anyone interested in ICT for development, Rising Voices projects, etc)
Technology for Transparency Network (for anyone interested in using ICT for transparency initiatives)
Regional and Language specific
GV-Caribbean (for authors from/in the Caribbean)
GV-CEE and Europe (for authors from/in Central and Eastern Europe, and the rest of Europe too)
GV-Sub-Saharan Africa (for authors from/in Sub-Saharan African countries)
MidEastGV (for authors from/in Middle East and North Africa aka MENA)
GV-USA (for authors from/in the USA)
GV-Americas (for authors from/in Latin America]
GV-South Asia (for authors from/in South Asia]
GV South-East Asia (for authors from/in South East Asia)
Japanese (for authors and contributors covering Japanese)
GV-East Asia (a cross-border mailing list for authors from/in East Asia incl. Japan, China, South East Asia)
Portuguese (for authors and contributors covering Portuguese speaking countries)
GV-Egypt (For Egyptian/Living in Egypt authors and contributors)
GV-Saudi (For Saudi/Living in Saudi authors and contributors)
Lingua
Lingua into English translators
Editors only
GV Editors (not Lingua)
GV Lingua (Lingua editors only]
Managing Mailing Lists
Subscribing
You can subscribe to a group through our web interface or via email. To subscribe to a group through the web interface, simply log in to your Google Account and visit the group of your choice. Then click the "Join this group" link on the right-hand side of the page under "About this group". If you don't have a google account, subscribe to a group via email by sending an email to [Groupname]-subscribe@googlegroups.com.
Changing your settings
Many people don't have the time to read all emails in all lists, so it is very good to customise your delivery settings according to your capacity/interest.
To change your email delivery option, you must first sign in to the Google Account associated with the email address subscribed to the group. Visit the Google Groups page of the group you want to change and click the "Manage my membership". Choose the email delivery option that you prefer for your group from the drop-down menu and save your changes.
If you want to continue your membership in a group but do not want to receive any group emails in your inbox, go to the group's homepage and click 'Edit my membership', then select the 'No Email' option and click "Save these settings". By doing so, you will be able to read emails on the webpage.
Unsubscribing
To unsubscribe to any of our groups, you can choose one of the following actions:
Reply to an email from the group with REMOVE ME as the subject of your message.
Send an email to groupname+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For example, if you want to leave the group GV-Authors@googlegroups.com, you could remove yourself by sending a blank email to GV-Authors+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
If you have a good account, you can go to the group's homepage and remove yourself as a member. Click 'Edit my membership' and 'Unsubscribe' at the bottom of that page.
If you are leaving Global Voices for good, it is always good to let your editor know and say goodbye. Sorry to see you going!
