[IAEP] [SLOB] Yoruba i18n motion

[Sameer Verma]

Approve.

Sameer
On May 6, 2016 6:40 PM, "Walter Bender" <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:

> At today's Sugar Labs oversight board meeting [1], we discussed the motion
> submitted by Chris Leonard to fund a program for translation of Sugar into
> Yoruba, one of the three main languages spoken in Nigeria. I second the
> motion and bring it to you in an email vote.
>
> Members of the oversight board, please reply to this email solicitation
> for a vote on the following motion.
>
> Motion: To fund a program to initiate the translation of Sugar into
> Yoruba. The specific milestones and costs are detailed below. A description
> of the rationale for the project is found at [2]. The work would be led by
> Samson Goddy and reviewed by Chris Leonard, in his role as Translation
> Community Manager.
>
> This proposal is for the translation of Sugar user interface and
> certain Sugar Activities into the Yoruba language (ISO-639 code - yo).
>
> Milestone 1 - The initial payment of $350 USD will cover startup costs
> (internet connection fees, localizer recruitment/training, etc.).
> Payment is to be made upon successful completion of contractual
> arrangements with fiscal sponsor (SFC).
>
> Milestone 2 - Glucose - Payable upon completion and upload to Pootle
> of the PO files for sugar, sugar-toolkit-gtk3, OLPC_switch_desktop
> will be for $1,350 USD. Included in this milestone is a $300 USD
> project management fee, in addition to fees of approximately 40
> cents/word for the projects included in this milestone.  The uploaded
> files must pass all "critical" error checks (as flagged by the Pootle
> software) and be approved by the Sugar Labs Translation Community
> Manager, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld.
>
> Milestone 2 must be completed prior to Milestone 3.
>
> Milestone 3 - Fructose - Payable upon completion and upload of the PO
> files for Calculate, Chat, ImageViewer, Jukebox, Log, Paint, Pippy,
> Portfolio, Read, ReadETexts, Record, Speak, Terminal, TurtleArt, Web,
> Write will be for $2,300 USD. Included in this milestone is a $675 USD
> project management fee, in addition to fees of approximately 40
> cents/word for the projects included in this milestone.  The uploaded
> files must pass all "critical" error checks (as flagged by the Pootle
> software) and be approved by the Sugar Labs Translation Community
> Manager, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld.
>
> Total anticipated costs for all three milestone payments will be $4,000
> USD.
>
> All projects are hosted on the Sugar Labs Pootle server at
>
> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/yo/
>
> Translation may be performed off-line with subsequent upload to the
> Pootle server.
>
> regards,
>
> -walter
>
> [1]
> https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Meeting_Minutes-2016-05-06
> [2]
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gtqpEOmDxxUYGdpbbBMlrPLQ-T6_OVnqdyAPJpaeORw/edit?usp=sharing
> <https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Meeting_Minutes-2016-05-06>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
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