Re: [IAEP] [SLOB] workshop travel motion

2018-01-08 Thread Chris Leonard
Walter, As always, I am ready to assist with i18n/L10n efforts as needed. In the past we've had an active Japanese localizer, but it has not been a priority language for recruiting. Efforts like this are wonderful opportunities to reach out to an online language community at other projects to le

Re: [IAEP] Claudia Urrea

2017-12-02 Thread Chris Leonard
An excellent addition to the SLOB. cjl On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > I am very please to be able to announce that, by a unanimous decision, > Claudia Urrea has been appointed to fill the Sugar Labs oversight board > seat vacated by Laura Vargas. Many of you know Claudia

Re: [IAEP] Enhancements to Sugar

2017-10-10 Thread Chris Leonard
Ryan, Some of these might make good Google Code-in projects (see Sugar Digest message). Please consider the possibility that proposing a task/feature and mentoring a GCI coder to execute it has benefits far beyond landing the feature itself. cjl On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Ryan Cunningham <

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Technical Service Request - Project: Sugar Network

2017-09-26 Thread Chris Leonard
top-posting because of thread length. 1) The original request was posted 2017-04-02, how urgent can it really be if it has been impossible to find someone to step up and volunteer 20 minutes to do this in the past six months? 2) Has any other maintenance been performed on this server in the last

Re: [IAEP] Sugarizer1° Revisited

2017-09-26 Thread Chris Leonard
On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 12:33 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Fascinating! Labyrinth was also the favorite of both teachers and students > when we were at the EduJam in Uruguay. > Sadly, the upstream home of Labyrinth is more or less dormant. https://github.com/labyrinth-team/labyrinth Someone does

[IAEP] A pending donation to Sugar Labs

2017-09-25 Thread Chris Leonard
Dear Friends, I am a Sugar Labs volunteer and an employee of a company called CSRA Inc., my employer has a program rewarding the non-profits for which employees volunteer with cash rewards based on hours of volunteer service. The program is called "Dollars for Doers", and employees may earn up to

[IAEP] Membership polling - why so few localizers?

2017-09-24 Thread Chris Leonard
Hello All, Several months ago I asked a question on this list related to the membership list review that was ongoing. http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2017-June/019832.html I'd like to repeat the question as I got no answer on the "Verified Sugar Labs member's list" thread that was starte

Re: [IAEP] contribute to sugerlabs

2017-09-12 Thread Chris Leonard
On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 3:11 AM, Nada Gh wrote: > Hi James, > > I taught computational skills for first-year undergraduate and teens. > I am recently familiar with python. I am fine with Arabic& English. > > Regards, > Nada Dear Nada, Your Arabic language skills would be very, very welcome on our

[IAEP] Fwd: [Localization] Localization Digest, Vol 109, Issue 1

2017-07-09 Thread Chris Leonard
#x27;s Topics: > >1. Fwd: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Member's List June 2017: 140 verified > members (Chris Leonard) > > > ---------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 00:41:55 -0400 > From: Chris Leonard &

[IAEP] Fwd: [Localization] Fwd: Sugar Labs Member's List June 2017: 140 verified members

2017-07-06 Thread Chris Leonard
And Blondel. cjl -- Forwarded message -- From: Blondel Mondésir Date: Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 10:58 AM Subject: Re: [Localization] Fwd: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Member's List June 2017: 140 verified members To: Chris Leonard Hello, My name is not in the list and I didn'

[IAEP] Fwd: [Localization] Fwd: Sugar Labs Member's List June 2017: 140 verified members

2017-07-06 Thread Chris Leonard
ified members To: Chris Leonard I do not recall receiving the verification email but would like to be added. Dan Bekele (Amharic) On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 12:41 AM, Chris Leonard wrote: > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Laura Vargas > Date: Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at

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

2017-06-14 Thread Chris Leonard
> >> >> 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. >>

[IAEP] Happy US Flag Day

2017-06-14 Thread Chris Leonard
Just sharing, I talked my company into supporting the Unicode Consortium though a donation to sponsor the US flag emoji. https://www.csra.com/media-room/press-release/csra-announces-permanent-connection-us-flag-virtually/ The company may get a little media from touting it, but the important thin

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

2017-06-13 Thread Chris Leonard
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:02 AM, David Ally 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 > t

[IAEP] Sugarizer localization

2017-06-03 Thread Chris Leonard
Dear Friends, Many of you know of the Sugarizer project from OLPC France: http://sugarizer.org/ If you've never run a Sugar environment on your own computer, the Web app is an awesome way to "get a taste of Sugar" in your web-broswer. http://try.sugarizer.org/ The Sugarizer project is essentia

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

2017-06-03 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Laura Vargas 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

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

2017-06-02 Thread Chris Leonard
On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Laura Vargas wrote: > Hi SLOBs, > > Some time has passed and this wonderful translations haven't reach the > children yet! > > The PO files exists, but there is an urgent need to create a build that > includes them so that Samson and Ibiam can get it distributed amo

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar Labs] Verified Sugar Labs member's list

2017-05-31 Thread Chris Leonard
gt; > James Simmons > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 6:53 PM, Ignacio Rodríguez > wrote: > >> All verification emails have been re-sent. >> Please check Spam folder :) >> >> If we keep having problems maybe we should check postfix/mail logs as I >> suggested.

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar Labs] Verified Sugar Labs member's list

2017-05-30 Thread Chris Leonard
rnie Innocenti > 15 Bert Freudenberg > 16 Bill Bogstad > 17 Bob Stepno > 18 Carla Gomez Monroy > 19 Carol Lerche > 20 Carol Ruth Silver > 21 Chris Leonard > 22 Christoph Derndorfer > 23 Cristian Peñaranda Rojas > 24 Daksh Shah > 25 Dan Williams > 26 Dan Winship &g

[IAEP] Sugarizer - I18n/L10n query

2017-05-18 Thread Chris Leonard
Have any of our Javasript / Sugarizer folks played around with xgettext-js yet? https://www.npmjs.com/package/xgettext-js If it helps us improve the L10n of Sugarizer via leveraging Pootle hosting or even just all of the hopefully similar strings already completed for corresponding Python versio

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] New ASLO Project Definition

2017-05-18 Thread Chris Leonard
Engiish would be localized in the relevant PO files at the time of L10n of the Activity's UI strings. cjl On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 10:08 PM, Chris Leonard wrote: > On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 9:57 PM, Tony Anderson wrote: >> On 05/19/2017 09:24 AM, Chris Leonard wrote: >>> >> T

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] New ASLO Project Definition

2017-05-18 Thread Chris Leonard
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 9:57 PM, Tony Anderson wrote: > On 05/19/2017 09:24 AM, Chris Leonard wrote: >> > The more difficult question is how to localize the summary and description > of the individual activities. At present, it appears we don't attempt to > localize this

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] New ASLO Project Definition

2017-05-18 Thread Chris Leonard
Dear Jatin, Welcome to the Sugar Labs community, When reworking ASLO (a very valuable project), please do keep internationalization (i18n) and localization (L10n) in mind. You may or may not know that we do host PO files for L10n of NewASLO on our Pootle translation server: https://translate.sug

[IAEP] French needed

2017-05-06 Thread Chris Leonard
Please help me recruit French speakers, we have enough Spanish speakers to keep current, but French needs more work and it is an important bridging language to the native languages of Francophone Africa and elsewhere. https://translate.sugarlabs.org/fr/sugar/ Thanks cjl _

Re: [IAEP] Correction Needed on the SL wiki [wiki bug]

2017-04-22 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Laura Vargas wrote: > > > 2017-04-22 10:06 GMT-05:00 Walter Bender : >> >> Sigh. Another "pocket veto". > > > I had to search in Wikipedia for the this term, it says: > > "A pocket veto is a legislative maneuver that allows a president or other > official with vet

Re: [IAEP] Testing of Activities

2017-04-19 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 1:30 AM, Tony Anderson wrote: > I spent the last two plus days testing the 137 activities with repositories > in github/sugarlabs. Thank you for this effort, clearly additional follow up is required and I hope it occurs. > Localization also needs some attention. The setup

[IAEP] GCompris query

2017-04-15 Thread Chris Leonard
Who can tell me what the impact of the GCompris move from GNOME/gtk to KDE/Qt means to our ability to use it with Sugar? cjl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Doc for Making Mission Statement and Stated Goals

2017-04-12 Thread Chris Leonard
FWIW, I added a fifth goal (proposal). In order to reach globally, it is a key principle that Sugar and related software be developed with “internationalization” (i18n) capabilities built in from the onset, thereby allowing translation of the user interface into many languages by our diverse “lo

[IAEP] Important pull request needs landing

2017-03-25 Thread Chris Leonard
Can one of our activity maintainers please lend the following pull request ASAP? https://github.com/sugarlabs/browse-activity/pull/47 Thanks in advance. cjl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://l

[IAEP] Calculate nedes some love

2017-03-19 Thread Chris Leonard
All, Calculate is an important Fructose activity. https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugarlabs-calculate However it has multiple pending pull requests, including a GTK-3 port and a bunch of translations. There has not been a new release for 4 years. https://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon

Re: [IAEP] [OLPC-SF] [Olpc-open] OLPC-SF March meeting: Ethiopia

2017-03-11 Thread Chris Leonard
I'd love to get in touch with the speaker to talk about getting any locally performed Amharic localization upstreamed to our Pootle server. https://translate.sugarlabs.org/am/ And to explore the possibility of getting more Amharic, or Oromo volunteers (possibly ex-pats) working on localization.

[IAEP] L10n snapshot, just fyi

2017-03-08 Thread Chris Leonard
I thought it might be of interest to some that the OLPC Switch desktop PO file is 100% complete in 32 languages (and still growing). This is how you switch from Sugar to GNOME. Acholi Albanian Amharic Arabic Aymara (Aru) Bosnian Catalan Chinese (China) Danish Dutch English English (Unit

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs 2017 Budget

2017-02-25 Thread Chris Leonard
uld >> result in litigation and the possible end of SugarLabs. >> >> > Please do elaborate on this. We have already allocated stipends for active > members in the past. As I recall Chris Leonard had an 8 month stipend of US$ > 1,000. > > What would be difference? > T

Re: [IAEP] Services provided by Sugarlabs - Inventory - Maintainers

2017-02-18 Thread Chris Leonard
f i18n/L10n or migration to our main github repository. > pootle: > > OS: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS. > Maintainer: Chris Leonard. > Services provided: > > translate.sugarlabs.org That OS is getting long-in-the-tooth. We are going to want to upgrade to Version 2.8 of Pootle in the near fu

Re: [IAEP] Additional activities in need of rescue

2017-02-18 Thread Chris Leonard
; > Analyze > https://github.com/sugarlabs/analyze > > Cartoon Builder > https://github.com/sugarlabs/cartoon-builder > > Colors > https://github.com/sugarlabs/colors > > Flipsticks > https://github.com/sugarlabs/flipsticks > > GoGo > https://github.com/sug

[IAEP] Additional activities in need of rescue

2017-02-18 Thread Chris Leonard
There are a few more activities stranded on old git if anyone could rescue them to github, it would be great. Arithmetic https://git.sugarlabs.org/arithmetic Classroom Broadcast https://git.sugarlabs.org/classroombroadcast Jigsaw puzzle https://git.sugarlabs.org/jigsaw-puzzle-branch Slider Puzz

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] Stopwatch activity maintainer needed.

2017-02-18 Thread Chris Leonard
r >> >> >> >> On 18/02/17 13:43, Ignacio Rodríguez wrote: >> > I'm not being able to >> > -> git clone git://git.sugarlabs.org/stopwatch/stopwatch.git >> > or access to src.sugarlabs.org >> > >> > Any sys admin here? (ad

[IAEP] Stopwatch activity maintainer needed.

2017-02-18 Thread Chris Leonard
Can one of our activity maintainers please rescue StopWatch from our old git repository and migrate it to github? https://git.sugarlabs.org/stopwatch We got lots of localization for this, but it need to be migrated so I can land the new strings. cjl __

Re: [IAEP] Addition to Membership Committee

2017-02-12 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Samson Goddy wrote: > Thanks for reaching out, i don't understand you question but Chris should be > able to help. But all the translation are found in translate.sugarlabs.org > > Samson > > On 12 Feb 2017 6:14 p.m., "David Ally" wrote: > > Dear Samson, > Could yo

Re: [IAEP] Getting started with contributing to Sugarlabs

2016-12-06 Thread Chris Leonard
One easy way to begin contributing is via localization (translation), we have a number of languages from India that could use additional help. Register and begin translating. https://translate.sugarlabs.org/ cjl On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 2:14 AM, Gangula Rama Rohit Reddy wrote: > Hi, I'm new and

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder

2016-12-02 Thread Chris Leonard
I'm not going to be able to join, but Walter will cover the L10n topic. cjl On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > There is not much of an agenda. I will give an update on GCI and one i18n > project. The discussion proposed by Tony has been seemingly postponed until > we hear ba

[IAEP] Massive L10n update sugar-toolkit-gtk3

2016-10-06 Thread Chris Leonard
Dear Sugar devs, Pull request synching Pootle and repo https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/339 144 files (languages) with 16,088 additions and 926 deletions. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/ Can someone please land this pull request. I have declined

Re: [IAEP] Yoruba localization contract completed

2016-09-26 Thread Chris Leonard
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 6:34 AM, David Ally wrote: > Dear Sugar labs, > Great to hear that progress is made on this project, thank you all for the > effort. Who is testing those already translated contents? and where can I > access them? I would like to showcase them to some partners that may pu

[IAEP] Yoruba localization contract completed

2016-09-24 Thread Chris Leonard
Dear Sugar Labs, Per the Yoruba localization contract undertaken by Samson Goddy, Milestones 2 and 3 have been completed and all requested revisions have been made. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/yo/ As Translation Community Manager (and in the oversight role defined in the contract), I am appro

Re: [IAEP] [SLOB] meeting reminder

2016-09-02 Thread Chris Leonard
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > We have a Sugar Labs oversight board meeting tomorrow at 19UTC [1]. Please > join us on irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting > > Among other discussion topics: > > Report from the i18n manager; I may not be available in person on IRC at that tim

Re: [IAEP] Priority languages to translate Sugar

2016-08-18 Thread Chris Leonard
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 10:50 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi Folks… > > Although it may seem a nice idea to propose translations into many > languages, at this time I feel translations should be restricted to those > language groups that have the XO hardware to use Sugar, like those in Peru > and H

Re: [IAEP] Priority languages to translate Sugar

2016-08-17 Thread Chris Leonard
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Laura Vargas wrote: > Thanks everyone for the input! > > Here is how the list is looking as of today, revision 7: > I added ISO639 codes where I could, some clarification will be needed, so I included questions. > > 01- Sugar Learning Platform to Shippibo (Peru

Re: [IAEP] Preparing for the 2017 SLOB Election

2016-08-06 Thread Chris Leonard
On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Hi > > Glad to hear you were able to get some rest :D > > On 5 August 2016 at 18:57, Caryl Bigenho wrote: >> >> ... >> qualify by actually making some tangible "contribution" (not money) to >> Sugar Labs >> [by] development of software or ha

[IAEP] TCM reporting

2016-07-01 Thread Chris Leonard
All, I wanted to inform the SLOB that I will NOT be invoicing SugarLabs/SFC for the month of May or June under the TCM agreement, although I will be posting some detail of the work I have been performing in the Translation Community Manager position. It has always been my desire to be able to per

[IAEP] Translation Community Manager report

2016-06-05 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Sebastian Silva wrote: > Tony, > > El 05/06/16 a las 01:14, Tony Anderson escribió: > > Note: at the last meeting, the emphasis on voting on a series of motions > resulted in no report from the Translation Community Manager. > > This is absurd. It is the duty of th

Re: [IAEP] Motion: Solicit Membership Donations + Public Statements

2016-05-23 Thread Chris Leonard
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: >> >> Let's experiment with random code to be inserted anywhere, for only $600! >> :) > > > Using gitorious we are running this experiment for $0, which is why I'm keen > to get the move to github over with :) Please prioritize rescue of th

Re: [IAEP] New Scratch Blocks announced at Google IO

2016-05-19 Thread Chris Leonard
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > I'm curious, what links do we have with the Scratch community? We have > superhero Bert here from the Squeak community :D > There are the obvious MIT MediaLab connections. Back in the day, we hosted Scratch on our Pootle instance, ui

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] f24 Live-Media-Creator for Building Live DVD Remixes

2016-05-19 Thread Chris Leonard
Tom, Thanks for your work on Live media and for keeping a weather eye out on SoaS. cjl On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 4:01 AM, Thomas Gilliard wrote: > I have finally worked out how to Do a livemedia-creator Remix in f24 [1] > livecd-creator [2] will be phased out soon > so this will be the only way

Re: [IAEP] Sugar network / School Network

2016-05-17 Thread Chris Leonard
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > Hi > > Thanks for the lengthy explanation :) I think I understand your position > better now :) > > On 17 May 2016 at 12:14, Chris Leonard wrote: >> >> >> any form of human subjects research >

Re: [IAEP] Sugar network / School Network

2016-05-17 Thread Chris Leonard
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 17 May 2016 at 10:17, Chris Leonard wrote: >> >> Source of funding has nothing to do with the applicability of laws and >> regulations on human subjects protection in research. > > > Please exp

Re: [IAEP] Sugar network / School Network

2016-05-17 Thread Chris Leonard
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 17 May 2016 at 02:16, Caryl Bigenho wrote: >> >> Here are the HHS requirements for any study done with children in the >> United States. > > > I understand these as useful guidelines but not requirements for us because > we are not fun

Re: [IAEP] Github Student Developer Pack

2016-05-15 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 15 May 2016 at 09:32, Walter Bender wrote: >> >> Seems like a good idea for Sugar Labs!!! Wonder what sort of packaging >> they require? > I think he is referring to software packaging (e.g. .deb or .rpm packages for Linux distros).

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] Yoruba i18n motion

2016-05-15 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Adam Holt wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Chris Leonard > wrote: >> >> On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 3:11 PM, samson goddy >> wrote: >> > Thanks for everyone who voted for this project. So what is the next ste

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] Yoruba i18n motion

2016-05-15 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 3:11 PM, samson goddy wrote: > Thanks for everyone who voted for this project. So what is the next step for > me to do to begin. > > > Samson G Completing paperwork with SFC. Adam is the go-between for talking to SFC. Completed paperwork would trigger the first "start-up

Re: [IAEP] SoaS Review/Article

2016-05-15 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> Is there a target date I should be aspiring to hit for poking activity >> maintainers to make a new release? > > Yes, we freeze for Final on May 31st so to ensure they're stable in > time I would want them by May 24th so we've got a bit ov

Re: [IAEP] SoaS Review/Article

2016-05-15 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Chris Leonard > wrote: >> Could someone following that more closely offer any additional details >> and thoughts on possible paths into a easily accessible .108 release? > >

Re: [IAEP] SoaS Review/Article

2016-05-15 Thread Chris Leonard
I understand that there are currently some concerns about whether SOAS will come out with Fedora24 due to errors in the build process (sorry, it is not very clear to me).. It would be a great shame to not make the F24 release, but far worse if there was not an eventual path to keeping our listing

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] another motion (Quispe trip to Translation Summit)

2016-05-12 Thread Chris Leonard
I meant to type "Issues of language are best left to the members of language communities to resolve amongst themselves." cjl On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Chris Leonard wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Sebastian Silva > wrote: >> El 12/05/16 a las 10:33,

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] another motion (Quispe trip to Translation Summit)

2016-05-12 Thread Chris Leonard
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Sebastian Silva wrote: > El 12/05/16 a las 10:33, Chris Leonard escribió: >> I would note that, as requested, Edgar provided a brief write-up of >> the event afterwards (in Spanish), > > Great! > > Please note that one of the speakers (R

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-12 Thread Chris Leonard
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 12 May 2016 at 11:09, Sean DALY wrote: >> >> Sam - I'm not aware that anyone here is other than "us volunteers". > > > Well, there's now a paid Translatoins Manager Yes there is and I am sympathetic to those who find their wish to v

Re: [IAEP] [SLOB] another motion (Quispe trip to Translation Summit)

2016-05-12 Thread Chris Leonard
ct it came to $168.88. > The purpose of the visit was for Edgar to share his experience with Aymara > i18n for Sugar Labs with speakers of other indigenous languages in the > region. Note that this was pre-approved by Chris Leonard and Walter Bender > as appropriate and relevant to our i

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-11 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 11 May 2016 at 13:03, Laura Vargas wrote: >> >> Sorry I missed to explain this. By the date of the agreement (2012), the >> Project agreed that, on the Effective Date, $1,887.44 (10% of the existing >> Project Fund on the Effective Da

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-07 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Chris Leonard wrote: > On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Adam Holt wrote: > > ... > >> In other words that SL's effective payment to SFConservancy (for >> legal/financial/administrative service) is equal to 10% of all expenditures

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-07 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Adam Holt wrote: ... > In other words that SL's effective payment to SFConservancy (for > legal/financial/administrative service) is equal to 10% of all expenditures > (outlays) each fiscal year, i.e. March 1st to end of February. > > (But someone else can correc

[IAEP] StoryWeaver

2016-05-05 Thread Chris Leonard
I thought this story was very interesting and I would love to know what could be done to plug Sugar users into this resource and toolset. Those both with and without bandwidth. http://yourstory.com/2016/04/storyweaver-pratham-books/ I've not explored the technical aspects at all, but the idea as

Re: [IAEP] 2015 SocialHelp Survey?

2016-05-02 Thread Chris Leonard
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > There is no narration to any of the videos. They are simply screencasts (of > Sugar running in English). > Sorry, I misunderstood the issue. I guess we would need a robotic method of walking through screen actions (once for each language).

Re: [IAEP] 2015 SocialHelp Survey?

2016-05-02 Thread Chris Leonard
Here is the link I was looking for. http://docs.translatehouse.org/projects/translate-toolkit/en/latest/formats/subtitles.html cjl On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Chris Leonard wrote: > > > On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Walter Bender > wrote: > >> FWIW, I wrote an

Re: [IAEP] 2015 SocialHelp Survey?

2016-05-02 Thread Chris Leonard
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > FWIW, I wrote an app [1] to introduce teachers (in Australia) to the core > Sugar concepts (both UI and pedagogy). It would be easy to strip the app of > the AU-specifics. A bit more challenging for i18n since the videos would > need to be r

Re: [IAEP] Neko Memes for Cats / Memes de Neko para Gatos

2016-04-23 Thread Chris Leonard
ually speak Spanish), but if your target audience is for the native languages of the Americas, that might not be an issue. cjl On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Chris Leonard wrote: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 12:09 AM, Laura Vargas wrote: >> >> Would be nice to be able to Localize al

Re: [IAEP] Neko Memes for Cats / Memes de Neko para Gatos

2016-04-23 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 12:09 AM, Laura Vargas wrote: > > Would be nice to be able to Localize all 5 activities/games that were > produced in Collaboration with the Children of the Seed-Programmers > Workshop+SugarCamp in Chía (La ciudad de la luna ;) Colombia on 2014. > FLOSSManual chapter Engl

Re: [IAEP] Is "Most Sugar Users Use XO Laptops" True?

2016-04-23 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 11:14 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Well, does Sugar Labs have a table listing each user community > ("deployment") and a person in each community who Sugar Labs can talk with? > > If not, let's make such a table :) > > It isn't clear to me where these 3 million XOs went...

Re: [IAEP] Wiki Gardening Weekend (May 14-15, Boston, USA)

2016-04-20 Thread Chris Leonard
At the peril of actually discussing Wiki gardening on this thread, I've created a new wiki page to catch some areas that might deserve a little special attention. https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Wiki_Team/Wiki_Gardening_Weekend_2016 Please feel free to drop anything of relevance on this page cjl

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Samson's proposal to SLOBs

2016-04-20 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Sebastian Silva wrote: > El 20/04/16 a las 01:15, Chris Leonard escribió: >> Such PO pre-conversion services are provided upon request and offered >> where appropriate as are the complementary re-conversion and upload >> services. > Ideall

Re: [IAEP] 3 questions about Sugar Desktop Copyleft

2016-04-20 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 20 April 2016 at 10:15, Chris Leonard wrote: >> >> >> We strongly encourage suitable licensing and attempt to use what leverage >> we have (e.g. to host on ASLO or not) to nudge people in the path of &

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Samson's proposal to SLOBs

2016-04-20 Thread Chris Leonard
chieved by people like you and Sebastian who have actually struggled with landing a new language for a Sugar community. cjl On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Laura Vargas wrote: > > 2016-04-20 21:33 GMT+08:00 Chris Leonard : >> >> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Dave Crossland w

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Samson's proposal to SLOBs

2016-04-20 Thread Chris Leonard
I worked with Samson to refine a narrower proposal that has been presented to the SLOB by email. It is for the SLOB or Samson to decide how / when to share it with the wider community. It is for the SLOB to determine the how / when of discussing the proposal. I am confident that all details will

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Samson's proposal to SLOBs

2016-04-20 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:30 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Hi! > > Its been 2 weeks since this thread was last updated; has anything else > happened to move the proposal forward? Am I right that this will be decided > on at the next SLOB meeting? > > Samson, some more questions below: > > On 6 Apri

Re: [IAEP] 3 questions about Sugar Desktop Copyleft

2016-04-20 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > Hi > > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/FAQ#What_are_the_principles_that_guide_Sugar_Labs.3F > says > > What are the principles that guide Sugar Labs? > > Sugar Labs subscribes to principle that learning thrives within a culture of

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Samson's proposal to SLOBs

2016-04-20 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > (removed every cc but ieap) > > On 20 April 2016 at 02:15, Chris Leonard wrote: >> >> As a practical matter, full-time internet connectivity is not required >> for effective L10n work. > > > I agree, an

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Samson's proposal to SLOBs

2016-04-20 Thread Chris Leonard
emails, only using iaep list) > > Hi Chris > > On 20 April 2016 at 01:39, Chris Leonard wrote: >> >> I worked with Samson to refine a narrower proposal that has been >> presented to the SLOB by email. It is for the SLOB or Samson to >> decide how / when to sh

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Samson's proposal to SLOBs

2016-04-19 Thread Chris Leonard
To many cc:s is getting this moderated. Trying again. On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 2:15 AM, Chris Leonard wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:30 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Its been 2 weeks since this thread was last updated; has anything else >> happened to mo

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Samson's proposal to SLOBs

2016-04-19 Thread Chris Leonard
To many cc:s is getting this moderated. Trying again. On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:39 AM, Chris Leonard wrote: > I worked with Samson to refine a narrower proposal that has been > presented to the SLOB by email. It is for the SLOB or Samson to > decide how / when to share it with

Re: [IAEP] Allow running Sugar Activities outside Sugar

2016-04-18 Thread Chris Leonard
Sebastian, This seems like a very elegant solution that provides greater flexibility in invoking Sugar, very nice indeed. cjl On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 3:57 AM, Sebastian Silva wrote: > Hi friends, > > I've been wishing to be able to nicely run Activities from a regular > desktop for a while. >

Re: [IAEP] Neko Memes for Cats / Memes de Neko para Gatos

2016-04-13 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Laura Vargas wrote: > > All feedback with pure love welcome! May be worth to translate. > Toda la retroalimentación con amor puro es bienvenida! Valdría la pena > traducirla. > Localization is welcome. La localización es bienvenido cjl

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Motions to create position of Translation-Community Manager

2016-04-06 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Sean DALY wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:32 PM, Adam Holt wrote: >> >> Thanks Lionel for taking time to vote your conscience even despite others >> of us who believe we have a legal/fiduciary obligation to our biggest >> investor (Trip Advisor) and a moral du

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: clarify please

2016-04-05 Thread Chris Leonard
https://github.com/leonardcj On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Sebastian Silva wrote: > > > El 02/04/16 a las 18:01, Chris Leonard escribió: >> If you have any more questions, feel free to ask, but there is >> probably no need to have every conversation on IAEP, > > Hi

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] quarterly or semiannual financials/vibrancy/transparency around Sugar Labs' 1st hire

2016-04-03 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 10:42 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > On another note, and sorry that I missed this as it was surely stated > elsewhere, but, what is the proposed annual fee to be paid to the TCM? Absent a final job description, no final number has been discussed, yet. I believe a monthly al

Re: [IAEP] quarterly or semiannual financials/vibrancy/transparency around Sugar Labs' 1st hire

2016-04-03 Thread Chris Leonard
th teeth, as Chris > Leonard outlined to me during a more-than-hourlong telephone call on > February 25th 2016, and as Walter Bender co-suggested during April 1st 2016 > Oversight Board meeting. This is not to question the very hard work Tony > Anderson put into the above page. Tony is f

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: clarify please

2016-04-02 Thread Chris Leonard
down in trivia. cjl On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Laura Vargas wrote: > Sebastian, > > I guess this request if you. > > Have no idea why it wasn't sent directly. > > Best regards, > > Laura V > > ------ Forwarded message -- > From: Chris Leon

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] meeting reminder

2016-04-02 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 6:03 AM, Sebastian Silva wrote: > Hi Chris, > I will try to be succinct in answering the questions you raise. I'm afraid I might have to go on in length to debunk your errors. > By Walter's apparent vote of no confidence in me and your insistence of > having done no wrong

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] meeting reminder

2016-03-30 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Sebastian Silva wrote: > > > On 30/03/16 10:57, Chris Leonard wrote: >> Walter put it on the agenda for discussion at the SLOB meeting, >> obviously he plans to explain, I don't see why you would expect him >> reply to your widel

Re: [IAEP] [SLOB] meeting reminder

2016-03-30 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Laura Vargas wrote: > Walter, > > After a long talk with Edgar, I am very worried that you keep asking for > funds on his name. > > You requested US$1,000 on January and he has no idea, and now you are > requesting funds for him to assist to a meeting that he is no

Re: [IAEP] GSoc project on i18n and L10n

2016-03-01 Thread Chris Leonard
Saurav, We are working to more clearly define some i18n and L10n oriented tasks, I think what is up there now is more-or-less a placeholder. Have you worked on adding i18n to existing Python programs? Do you know anything about adding i18n to JavaScript programs? cjl On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:5

Re: [IAEP] Trip Advisor grant statement of work

2016-02-24 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Laura Vargas wrote: > > > Specific info that would help, includes: > > - Grant Time frame > - Is there a Max- Min Budget / Project / Language > - Are there activities/projects/languages restrictions > - Are there fixed rates for translators > - Are there fixed rat

Re: [IAEP] Trip Advisor grant statement of work

2016-02-13 Thread Chris Leonard
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 b

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