<div dir="ltr">I was asked to repost the statement of work from the Trip Advisor grant. Here it is:<div><br></div><div>
<p class="" style="margin-top:0.08in;line-height:100%">There
are two specific goals for the Tripadvisor grant:<br>
<br>
(1)
Broaden the reach of our indigenous language support. Currently we
have language projects in ~150 languages (for example, we cover
Aymara, Quechua, Gurani and other languages of the Andes region). But
the problem is enormous: for example, in Nigeria, there are more than
300 languages spoken. We only have partial coverage in four of these
languages. We need to push much harder on making Sugar be available
in the local language of the learner; this requires both outreach and
coordination that is above and beyond what we can support strictly
through our volunteer efforts. So we are hoping to establish a seed
fund to help with translation efforts: augmenting the efforts of our
volunteers with some professional translation services in Latin
America, Africa, and South Asia.<br>
<br>
(2) Support for a major
new outreach initiative we are launching in October 2013. We are
celebrating International Turtle Art Day (Turtle Art is a programming
environment for children that is one of the cornerstone apps bundled
with the Sugar platform.) We are trying to:<br>
* Promote the use of
Turtle Art (We have three million users, but would like to double
that number over the next three years);<br>
* Share and promote best
practices (We want to ensure that our users are getting maximum value
from their investment of time);<br>
* Celebrate projects for
children and teachers (We want to bring children together to their
local venues and connect them globally through a shared project site
to their peers as a way of encouraging them to push themselves
further -- creating a network effect around learning
opportunities).<br>
<br>
Internationalization and localization are
on-going efforts for us and areas we take quite seriously. As we
expand to more regions, the need to develop and sustain local
localization teams is paramount to reaching more children with our
learning tools. We would use the Tripadvisor donation as the initial
basis of a fund to help<br>
translation efforts both targeted
opportunistically by Sugar Labs and on demand by our user community,
with an emphasis on expanding our reach in Africa.<br>
<br>
Turtle
Art Day is scheduled for October 2013. (We already have venues lined
up in the United States, Peru, Colombia, Nicaragua, Paraguay,
Uruguay, Nigeria, India, and Australia). We hope that Turtle Art Day
will be an annual event, celebrated simultaneously in 100s of venues.
We are asking TAMG to be the inaugural event sponsor and to help us
establish a framework by which it can be readily replicated in the
coming years.<br>
<br>
The internationalization and localization
work would be overseen by Chris Leonard, the Sugar Labs
Internationalization Team leader. The management of the funds would
be overseen by the executive director, Walter Bender, who also
happens to be the lead developer of the Turtle Art program. Sugar
Labs will provide Tripadvisor with detailed reports on all spending.</p><div><div>regards.</div><div><br></div><div>-walter</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font><font>Walter Bender</font></font><br><font><font>Sugar Labs</font></font></div><div><font><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font>http://www.sugarlabs.org</font></a></font><br><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font></font></a><br></div></div></div>
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