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

[David Ally]

Dear IAEP community,Good to hear about all these efforts. I once requested for handle on the recently Yoruba translation of Sugar Activities but could not make any headway. My reason for requesting for the translation was because I was trying to assemble some translators and contents remixers in the country to work on 3 major languages for current academic curriculum.
I am still pressing on this front however, this work is too resource consuming and requires almost full time work to make significant progress. I am presently engaged on many fronts and so could only spare time for this, however, if there is a way to link up with Samson to work out some level collaborations, may be we can be make better progress.
So @SamsonGoddy, is there anyway we can link up on these activities?

Please keep me informed of all Nigerian/West African related translation activities, I am keen on this area.
Regards!David



On Friday, June 2, 2017, 11:11:54 PM GMT+1, Samson Goddy <samsongoddy at sugarlabs.org> wrote:

Hi all, 
Thanks laura for bringing this up. I have working on bringing sugar to Nigeria schools, because the people that use Sugar currently are just the xo-1 users. 
As i told Chris Leonard last time when he reach me about getting translators. I am working on getting a group of developers in Port Harcourt and also translators. These people are eager to contribute to open source, which is good because of project like Google Summer of Code.
I was thinking about doing something like "Sugar Labs summit" in Nigeria to connect to all these category of people mentioned. But funds is a problem, i have been trying to reach out to local sponsors. But definitely Scratch Conference in Bordeaux will become more productive if i connect to sponsors for workshops. 

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Laura Vargas <laura at somosazucar.org> wrote:

Hi SLOBs,

Some time has passed and this wonderful translations haven't reach the children yet! 

They have but in a small scale, because people are still using the xo laptops. But not as before. 

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.

+1, i am very support of this. I have been trying to work something out. At least, i and walter are planning a workshop in Nigeria, which will serve as introducing sugar to new schools. And also help create a small deployment to help support the schools with xos(2,000 machines). 


Hope we can start using SL money to actually outreach Sugar learners!

Blessings and happy Friday!

Laura V



2016-09-24 16:01 GMT-05:00 Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>:

Dear Sugar Labs,

Per the Yoruba localization contract undertaken by Samson Goddy,
Milestones 2 and 3 have been completed and all requested revisions
have been made.

http://translate.sugarlabs.org /yo/

As Translation Community Manager (and in the oversight role defined in
the contract), I am approving payment of Milestones 2 and 3.

Adam Holt as Sugar Lab's contact with the SFC is requested to
communicate Samson's invoicing to the SFC for payment.

Milestone 2 PO files (Glucose) $1,350

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Milestone 3 PO files (Fructose) $2,300

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