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

[Chris Leonard]

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Laura Vargas <laura at somosazucar.org> wrote:
> Hi SLOBs,
>
> Some time has passed and this wonderful translations haven't reach the
> children yet!
>
> The PO files exists, but there is an urgent need to create a build that
> includes them so that Samson and Ibiam can get it distributed among their
> young XO learners partners.
>
> So, I propose the following Motion:
>
> SL will allocate a budget of US$TBD for "professional services" required to
> create a fitable image for Samson's and Ibiam's young XO partners in Africa.
> SL will make an open call to the mailing list to find one or more
> professional to do it.
>
>
> Hope we can start using SL money to actually outreach Sugar learners!
>

The PO files have been committed to the relevant repos and as new
Activity releases have been made (thanks Quozl for your recent
Fructose push) they have been made available via ASLO.  It is true
that a build of the core UI strings would be needed, but I thought
that might come via a new SOAS release.

Are you proposing a custom build for Nigeria?

If so, I would request that OLPC switch desktop PO file for Igbo be
completed before such an attempt was made.

I have been speaking to Samson about trying to organize further
volunteer efforts in Yoruba and Igbo and if an early-stage image build
would truly help kickstart that volunteer effort, then I think it
could be useful.  If a custom image is being made, we'll need to touch
base on a few things (some confusion about glibc locale name for Igbo,
ig versus ibo), which are relatively easily worked around if taken
into account early in the process. I'd encourage an image that carried
Virtaal on the GNU boot to help out with L10n efforts.

cjl