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_a...@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.a...@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 < > samsongo...@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_a...@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 < > cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Laura Vargas <la...@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 > ______________________________ _________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/ listinfo/iaep > <http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep> > > > -- Laura V. * I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org* “Solo la tecnología libre nos hará libres.” ~ Laura Victoria Happy Learning! #LearningByDoing #Projects4good #IDesignATSugarLabs #WeCanDoBetter
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