Most of the points you make can be answered by the project team (cc: @gina, @jesslynnrose). I was merely welcoming you with some technical data and directions.
I didn’t say otherwise, sorry if it is misunderstood. All I say is that you can accomplish your goals right here. Your incentive would also be very inspiring for other language communities.
Except re-branding of course, I have no idea on that. One idea that comes to mind is you create a campaign page and promote it, and a button on that page opens the real CV webapp. I personally find the UI/UX quite satisfactory. This is what we did in the past.
One major obstacle in such campaigns is use of social media/mobile devices, where webview style browsers are involved. You cannot click on a link from a Facebook link on Facebook app on mobile and record. You need to copy-paste the link on a regular browser and give permission for recording.
In case of elderly people, who can read and speak, a caretaker can prepare a laptop/mobile device specific for that person/session. “Specific” meaning: If you want to fight the gender/age/accent-dialect bias, you need to capture these classifiers, which can only be done through creating a profile. That would need a separate e-mail is needed for each volunteer, which can be problematic sometimes. In my own experience if not repeated regularly, elderly people get confused of the login procedure. Repurposing an old laptop for this use in each nursing home would help.
In any case, you might need to set some limits for person recording and make it supervised. Educate a caretaker for this purpose so that he/she can decide if the recording is satisfactory.
Indeed. As a voice donator, I’m also not happy with CC-0. Here is a related discussion from last year:
At least some of us, if not many are waiting some change in this area.
Those accents are defined at the start of the project, before the introduction of the variant concept. I also think they can be re-designed for further recordings, moving some to variants, and keeping some as accents in that variant. That would need working with Germen community here, with linguists and the project team, especially with @ftyers .
You can write to the sub-Discourse, Matrix or maybe @mkohler can help.