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Language Barriers

Sometimes the problem is less procedural and more lingual in nature. For example, what does the text below say?

Unless you read Kannada, a language spoken primarily in southwestern India and used by millions all over the world, it’s unlikely that you knew that this text says, “You don’t understand the language.” If the image above just looked like a lot of lovely squiggly lines to you, then you have a sense of what it’s like for the billions of people who could contribute to free and open source software but hit the human language barrier.

While FOSS is a worldwide phenomenon, the majority of projects use English as their primary ...