That's great news. Is this specifically for localizing Sugar OS and the core activities, or can it be applied more generally to Haitian Creole language resources for Sugar / Sugarizer ? On Feb 13, 2016 8:38 AM, "Walter Bender" <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Haitian was not mentioned specifically in the Trip Advisor grant, but we > did allocate funds (still unspent AFAIK) for Haitian Creole. Love to invest > in that effort if you can identify someone to do the work. > > regards. > > -walter > > On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Nick Doiron <ndoi...@mapmeld.com> wrote: > >> Hi Walter and SLOBs, >> >> In 2013, I was asked to participate in a Haitian Creole translation >> program with SugarLabs, TripAdvisor, and EducaVision. Predictably, there >> was a trivial software issue and I never saw this work completed. >> >> I did release a Sugar activity which is on "HaitiOS" laptops today, and a >> static HTML+JS app which you can access here >> https://github.com/mapmeld/diy-dictionary >> >> I don't see Haiti mentioned in your TripAdvisor email. I have friends >> still working with Sugar in Haiti, so I'm curious, is money still allocated >> for Haitian Creole? After 3 years, can another Creole translator be >> selected? Thanks. >> >> Regards, >> Nick Doiron >> >> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I was asked to repost the statement of work from the Trip Advisor grant. >>> Here it is: >>> >>> There are two specific goals for the Tripadvisor grant: >>> >>> (1) Broaden the reach of our indigenous language support. Currently we >>> have language projects in ~150 languages (for example, we cover Aymara, >>> Quechua, Gurani and other languages of the Andes region). But the problem >>> is enormous: for example, in Nigeria, there are more than 300 languages >>> spoken. We only have partial coverage in four of these languages. We need >>> to push much harder on making Sugar be available in the local language of >>> the learner; this requires both outreach and coordination that is above and >>> beyond what we can support strictly through our volunteer efforts. So we >>> are hoping to establish a seed fund to help with translation efforts: >>> augmenting the efforts of our volunteers with some professional translation >>> services in Latin America, Africa, and South Asia. >>> >>> (2) Support for a major new outreach initiative we are launching in >>> October 2013. We are celebrating International Turtle Art Day (Turtle Art >>> is a programming environment for children that is one of the cornerstone >>> apps bundled with the Sugar platform.) We are trying to: >>> * Promote the use of Turtle Art (We have three million users, but would >>> like to double that number over the next three years); >>> * Share and promote best practices (We want to ensure that our users are >>> getting maximum value from their investment of time); >>> * Celebrate projects for children and teachers (We want to bring >>> children together to their local venues and connect them globally through a >>> shared project site to their peers as a way of encouraging them to push >>> themselves further -- creating a network effect around learning >>> opportunities). >>> >>> Internationalization and localization are on-going efforts for us and >>> areas we take quite seriously. As we expand to more regions, the need to >>> develop and sustain local localization teams is paramount to reaching more >>> children with our learning tools. We would use the Tripadvisor donation as >>> the initial basis of a fund to help >>> translation efforts both targeted opportunistically by Sugar Labs and on >>> demand by our user community, with an emphasis on expanding our reach in >>> Africa. >>> >>> Turtle Art Day is scheduled for October 2013. (We already have venues >>> lined up in the United States, Peru, Colombia, Nicaragua, Paraguay, >>> Uruguay, Nigeria, India, and Australia). We hope that Turtle Art Day will >>> be an annual event, celebrated simultaneously in 100s of venues. We are >>> asking TAMG to be the inaugural event sponsor and to help us establish a >>> framework by which it can be readily replicated in the coming years. >>> >>> The internationalization and localization work would be overseen by >>> Chris Leonard, the Sugar Labs Internationalization Team leader. The >>> management of the funds would be overseen by the executive director, Walter >>> Bender, who also happens to be the lead developer of the Turtle Art >>> program. Sugar Labs will provide Tripadvisor with detailed reports on all >>> spending. >>> regards. >>> >>> -walter >>> >>> -- >>> Walter Bender >>> Sugar Labs >>> http://www.sugarlabs.org >>> <http://www.sugarlabs.org> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>> >> >> > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > <http://www.sugarlabs.org> >
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