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

[Samson Goddy]

Are you a Nigerian?

Me too, this is going to be my third time coming to lagos. I have been
living in Port Harcourt, how did you propose we discuss? i am mostly
available via Google Hangout? i and walter are planning workshop around
Sugar in Nigeria soon. Maybe you can be of help too then we will talk about
other things.

Samson

On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 5:17 PM, David Ally <david_ally at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I am based in Abuja, I hardly come around to Lagos, even though I grew up
> in Lagos. I plan to visit Lagos State University this month to meet with
> the President of Linguistic Association of Nigeria, I am not sure if I can
> plan the trip to coincide with your presence in Lagos, either way let's
> share some thought on this translation project please.
>
> I should be in the US in July for about 3weeks, if there is any important
> event relating to this I could find time to attend.
>
> Regards!
> David
>
>
>
>
> On Saturday, June 3, 2017, 5:05:44 PM GMT+1, Chris Leonard <
> cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Laura Vargas <laura at somosazucar.org>
> wrote:
>
> >> > 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?
> >
> >
> > Yes.
> >>
> >>
> >> If so, I would request that OLPC switch desktop PO file for Igbo be
> >> completed before such an attempt was made.
> >
> >
> > I understand there would be technical and academic considerations in
> order
> > to detail the work to be done. I hope you can guide the execution from
> the
> > translation's POV.
> >
>
> Of course, I would welcome the opportunity to assist.
>
> > The objective of the motion is to define if it is worth to rescue all the
> > work and investment (community's time and money) done last year by Sugar
> > Labs on Samson's and Ibiam's line of work.
>
> A funded project for a single-purpose build would not be as valuable
> as adding a component to it that included improving documentation (and
> possibly toolchain) of the custom-build process in such a way that it
> is more easily repeated by others.  That way it is an investment in a
> repeatable process, not a single product.  Just a thought.
>
>
> cjl
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