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

[Chihurumnaya Ibiam]

I think we can also work on Efik, because from what i know that's where
there's a high number of XO's still in use in schools -- i think over a
thousand --, so it can also be included in the build.

*Ibiam Chihurumnaya*

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:16 PM, Laura Vargas <laura at somosazucar.org>
wrote:

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> 2017-06-13 15:13 GMT-05:00 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>:
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>> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Samson Goddy <samsongoddy at sugarlabs.org>
>> wrote:
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>>> But is it okay if we have both build for Sugar on Stick and XO? Laura?
>>>
>>
>
> I do hope there is someone interested on releasing a SOAS build that
> includes all translations available for Sugar.
>
> Still, this is out of the scope of this motion.
>
>>
>> No reason why not, now that CJL confirms that the appropriate strings are
>> in place.
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>>
> (Not sure why we need a motion for it.)
>>
>
> If SLOBs does not make this decision, Nigerian learners won't have access
> to an updated XO build that includes Igbo and Yoruba translations.
>
> Now that the motion has been seconded by Samson, SLOBS can start voting.
>
> My vote is +1.
>
> Regards and blessings,
>
> Laura V
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>>> Samson G
>>>
>>> On Jun 13, 2017 3:06 PM, "Chris Leonard" <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:02 AM, David Ally <david_ally at yahoo.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Dear All,
>>>> > I  once requested for the handle on these Nigerian translations and
>>>> was told
>>>> > it was not yet in the main build, so I guess this is the main
>>>> obstacle in
>>>> > the way of learners accessing the contents, it is important if we can
>>>> have
>>>> > those two translations all possible publicly available builds, so that
>>>> > people like us can make case for their use in many fora in Nigeria.
>>>> >
>>>> > I support any effort in this direction. +1
>>>> >
>>>> > Regards!
>>>> > David
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Our current holdings in Nigerian localization can be found on our
>>>> Pootle server.
>>>>
>>>> Yoruba
>>>> https://translate.sugarlabs.org/yo/
>>>>
>>>> Igbo
>>>> https://translate.sugarlabs.org/ibo/
>>>>
>>>> The vast majority of these translations have been committed to their
>>>> respective Github repos,  to the extent that new versions of those
>>>> activities have been released since those commits, the translations
>>>> are now present in ASLO.
>>>>
>>>> The core UI strings (sugar, sugar-toolkit-gtk3, OLPC_switch_laptop)
>>>> have also been committed, but to get them visible to users a new build
>>>> will be required.  That would either be a new SOAS build or possibly a
>>>> custom build as proposed by Laura.
>>>>
>>>> cjl
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