<div dir="ltr">I am happy to report that this motion has passed: 5 votes in favor, 1 vote opposed, and 1 member choosing not to vote.<div><br></div><div>regards.</div><div><br></div><div>-walter</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>Members of the oversight board, please reply to this email solicitation for a vote on the following motion.<br><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><div><br></div><div><div>This proposal is for the translation of Sugar user interface and</div><div>certain Sugar Activities into the Yoruba language (ISO-639 code - yo).</div><div><br></div><div>Milestone 1 - The initial payment of $350 USD will cover startup costs</div><div>(internet connection fees, localizer recruitment/training, etc.).</div><div>Payment is to be made upon successful completion of contractual</div><div>arrangements with fiscal sponsor (SFC).</div><div><br></div><div>Milestone 2 - Glucose - Payable upon completion and upload to Pootle</div><div>of the PO files for sugar, sugar-toolkit-gtk3, OLPC_switch_desktop</div><div>will be for $1,350 USD. Included in this milestone is a $300 USD</div><div>project management fee, in addition to fees of approximately 40</div><div>cents/word for the projects included in this milestone. The uploaded</div><div>files must pass all "critical" error checks (as flagged by the Pootle</div><div>software) and be approved by the Sugar Labs Translation Community</div><div>Manager, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld.</div><div><br></div><div>Milestone 2 must be completed prior to Milestone 3.</div><div><br></div><div>Milestone 3 - Fructose - Payable upon completion and upload of the PO</div><div>files for Calculate, Chat, ImageViewer, Jukebox, Log, Paint, Pippy,</div><div>Portfolio, Read, ReadETexts, Record, Speak, Terminal, TurtleArt, Web,</div><div>Write will be for $2,300 USD. Included in this milestone is a $675 USD</div><div>project management fee, in addition to fees of approximately 40</div><div>cents/word for the projects included in this milestone. The uploaded</div><div>files must pass all "critical" error checks (as flagged by the Pootle</div><div>software) and be approved by the Sugar Labs Translation Community</div><div>Manager, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld.</div><div><br></div><div>Total anticipated costs for all three milestone payments will be $4,000 USD.</div><div><br></div><div>All projects are hosted on the Sugar Labs Pootle server at</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://translate.sugarlabs.org/yo/" target="_blank">http://translate.sugarlabs.org/yo/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Translation may be performed off-line with subsequent upload to the</div><div>Pootle server.</div></div><div><br></div><div>regards,</div><div><br></div><div>-walter</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Meeting_Minutes-2016-05-06" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Meeting_Minutes-2016-05-06</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gtqpEOmDxxUYGdpbbBMlrPLQ-T6_OVnqdyAPJpaeORw/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gtqpEOmDxxUYGdpbbBMlrPLQ-T6_OVnqdyAPJpaeORw/edit?usp=sharing</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Meeting_Minutes-2016-05-06" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank"><br></a>-- </font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><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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