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

[Laura Vargas]

Samson,

It is nice to hear there is interest in the build directly from Nigeria :D

I don't think there is any conflict of interest for you to second this
motion so we can start defining the work to be done.


Regards and blessings

laura v


2017-06-05 8:40 GMT-05:00 David Ally <david_ally at yahoo.com>:

> Dear Samson,
> Yes, I am a Nigerian, I grew up in Lagos and had all my schooling in
> Lagos, Primary, Secondary, Polytechnic and University in Lagos.
>
> I left Lagos in 1993, and now based in Abuja.
>
> I have a gmail account dade.ally at gmail.com, we can link up on Hangout. It
> will be nice to talk about the proposed Sugar in Nigeria.
>
> Regards!
> David
>
>
>
> On Saturday, June 3, 2017, 5:33:44 PM GMT+1, Samson Goddy <
> samsongoddy at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>
>
> 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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