[IAEP] [SLOBS] MOTION to budget professional services for a Yoruba-Igbo XO build WAS [Re: Yoruba localization contract completed

[Chris Leonard]

Let me know how many plural forms (nplurals) and how they are applied
(plural equation) and I'll set up a project for Efik (lang-efi) in
Pootle.  We'll need to develop a glibc locale file before deploying,
but that is not overly challenging.

http://docs.translatehouse.org/projects/localization-guide/en/latest/l10n/pluralforms.html


cjl

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Chihurumnaya Ibiam
<ibiamchihurumnaya at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think we can also work on Efik, because from what i know that's where
> there's a high number of XO's still in use in schools -- i think over a
> thousand --, so it can also be included in the build.
>
> Ibiam Chihurumnaya
>
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:16 PM, Laura Vargas <laura at somosazucar.org>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> 2017-06-13 15:13 GMT-05:00 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Samson Goddy <samsongoddy at sugarlabs.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> But is it okay if we have both build for Sugar on Stick and XO? Laura?
>>
>>
>>
>> I do hope there is someone interested on releasing a SOAS build that
>> includes all translations available for Sugar.
>>
>> Still, this is out of the scope of this motion.
>>>
>>>
>>> No reason why not, now that CJL confirms that the appropriate strings are
>>> in place.
>>>
>>>
>>> (Not sure why we need a motion for it.)
>>
>>
>> If SLOBs does not make this decision, Nigerian learners won't have access
>> to an updated XO build that includes Igbo and Yoruba translations.
>>
>> Now that the motion has been seconded by Samson, SLOBS can start voting.
>>
>> My vote is +1.
>>
>> Regards and blessings,
>>
>> Laura V
>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Samson G
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 13, 2017 3:06 PM, "Chris Leonard" <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:02 AM, David Ally <david_ally at yahoo.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > Dear All,
>>>>> > I  once requested for the handle on these Nigerian translations and
>>>>> > was told
>>>>> > it was not yet in the main build, so I guess this is the main
>>>>> > obstacle in
>>>>> > the way of learners accessing the contents, it is important if we can
>>>>> > have
>>>>> > those two translations all possible publicly available builds, so
>>>>> > that
>>>>> > people like us can make case for their use in many fora in Nigeria.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I support any effort in this direction. +1
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Regards!
>>>>> > David
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Our current holdings in Nigerian localization can be found on our
>>>>> Pootle server.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yoruba
>>>>> https://translate.sugarlabs.org/yo/
>>>>>
>>>>> Igbo
>>>>> https://translate.sugarlabs.org/ibo/
>>>>>
>>>>> The vast majority of these translations have been committed to their
>>>>> respective Github repos,  to the extent that new versions of those
>>>>> activities have been released since those commits, the translations
>>>>> are now present in ASLO.
>>>>>
>>>>> The core UI strings (sugar, sugar-toolkit-gtk3, OLPC_switch_laptop)
>>>>> have also been committed, but to get them visible to users a new build
>>>>> will be required.  That would either be a new SOAS build or possibly a
>>>>> custom build as proposed by Laura.
>>>>>
>>>>> cjl
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>>
>>
>>
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