Sounds like an NIH, not invented here, response. Very negative. If there are concerns, engage an independent local auditor to do due diligence on the proposal.
On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 01:23:59PM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: > It would be nice to give Chris Leonard a chance to be involved in > this decision. > > According to Samson, Schlumberger deployed 3000 XO laptops as part > of a SEED program which > has been discontinued. The laptops were given to individual students > and so are no longer used at any of the > three schools initially involved. > > He has been collecting some of these XOs for use in training > sessions which he is offering. > > His description has identified two essential needs: two standard > laptops for Samson and Ibiam and money > to connect to the internet ($250 per month). > > The raises some questions: > > Is there a workplace available where the team could meet to work > on the project? Clearly an internet contract will > provide access to only one location. > > Can some of these XO laptops be recovered/recycled. The owners > are now in their late teens and probably wanting to use > smartphones or standard laptops. They may be willing to sell them > for a relatively small amount given that the local demand for XOs > is probably negligible. These could be refurbished and deployed > either to support a local hackerspace or to supply enough for one > class at a local school. > > Samson discusses localization of Sugar and 38 Sugar activities > to six African languages. The proposed cost of the first exceeds > $6000. > It is likely that the completion of six languages per this proposal > will use all of the available funds earmarked for localization. > > Samson intends to apply for admission to a university and so may > not be able to manage this proposal to its completion. > > The proposal does not indicate how many XOs in deployments will > benefit from the localization. There is a scenario in which we spend > $40,000 which > only results in updating files on translation.sugarlabs.org. > > I have to agree with Caryl and Adam's concern that the available > funds get the most mileage. I also share Lionel's concern that the > funds not > be spent on localization of specific languages. Fundamentally, > vetting these proposals is an important part of the TCM job. > > Tony > > On 04/06/2016 12:25 PM, James Cameron wrote: > >I've reviewed the proposal. I like it. I've no further questions. > > > >On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 03:01:44PM +0100, samson goddy wrote: > >>Thank you very much Laura for the help you've giving me about my project in > >>Nigeria. Also i also grateful to Walter and Chris for their support too. I > >>have > >>been really down last week(Sick) but i am getting on my feet now. So i did > >>update the proposal to reduce the prices for the languages. here are the > >>links > >>to the excel [1]https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=A02A6B155E984772!452&; > >>authkey=!AE8LFLFOt_Zhi04&ithint=file%2cods Then the origin document which is > >>attached to this mail. > >> > >>Also as much i will like to wait till the translation manager, I intend to > >>do > >>this project starting from April so that i can be done before my 2 SAT > >>tests. > >>So i would like if SLOBs can vote via email waiting to the next meeting > >>will do > >>me no good. This is a favour i am asking from SLOBs. > >> > >>Samson Goddy > >> > >>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ > >>From: la...@somosazucar.org > >>Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 18:47:26 +0800 > >>Subject: Fwd: FW: Samson's proposal to SLOBs > >>To: samsongo...@gmail.com; s...@unleashkids.org; t...@timmoody.com; > >>lio...@olpc-france.org; samsongo...@hotmail.com > >>CC: t...@olenepal.org; canoe.be...@yahoo.com; cbige...@hotmail.com; > >>cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com; godi...@sugarlabs.org; nices...@gmail.com; > >>t...@sugarlabs.org; wal...@sugarlabs.org; sebast...@fuentelibre.org; > >>i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > >> > >>Hi Samson, > >> > >>As promised, I have requested volunteers to continue with the Translations/ > >>Localization Committe, so we will be able to help you get the proposals in > >>good > >>shape to be consider by the board for appoval. > >> > >>So to start, it will be me, Sora and Tim, as they have confirmed their > >>intention to continue in the Translations/Localizations Committe and help > >>out > >>with the proposals. > >> > >>So, I am forwarding them cc to IAEP, the documentation we have. > >> > >>Sora, Tim, > >> > >>Here I'm forwarding the first draft from the Localization Contractor > >>Template > >>that was prepared. It contemplates the translation of 40 Sugar Projects to 6 > >>native languages. > >> > >>I made some suggestions, but basically we ended up with a per/language > >>proposal, that shows additional information, like responsible party per task > >>and activities to be done in the time line. Am attaching the SpreadSheet. > >> > >>According to your experiences, I'm asking for your help to upgrade this two > >>documents, as they may become the model for others to follow. > >> > >>Thank you both for joining forces in the spirit of International fraternity, > >>peace and cultural exchange. > >> > >>Bessings for all. > >> > >>Laura V > >> > >>---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >>From: samson goddy <[2]samsongo...@hotmail.com> > >>Date: 2016-03-25 2:53 GMT+08:00 > >>Subject: FW: Samson's proposal to SLOBs > >>To: Laura Vargas <[3]la...@somosazucar.org> > >> > >>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ > >>From: [4]samsongo...@hotmail.com > >>To: [5]cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com > >>CC: [6]wal...@sugarlabs.org; [7]ca...@media.mit.edu; [8]cbige...@hotmail.com > >>Subject: RE: Samson's proposal to SLOBs > >>Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:45:05 +0100 > >> > >>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ > >>From: [9]samsongo...@hotmail.com > >>To: [10]cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com > >>CC: [11]wal...@sugarlabs.org > >>Subject: Samson's proposal to SLOBs > >>Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:43:16 +0100 > >> > >>Hello Guys, > >> > >> i am done with the proposal and i will be presenting it to SLOBs for the > >> next > >>meeting 1st of April. So i want you guys to please review it before the > >>date. > >> > >>Thanks > >>Samson Goddy > >> > >>-- > >>Laura V. > >>I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org > >> > >>IRC kaametza > >> > >>Happy Learning! > >> > >>References: > >> > >>[1] > >>https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=A02A6B155E984772!452&authkey=!AE8LFLFOt_Zhi04&ithint=file%2cods > >>[2] mailto:samsongo...@hotmail.com > >>[3] mailto:la...@somosazucar.org > >>[4] mailto:samsongo...@hotmail.com > >>[5] mailto:cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com > >>[6] mailto:wal...@sugarlabs.org > >>[7] mailto:ca...@media.mit.edu > >>[8] mailto:cbige...@hotmail.com > >>[9] mailto:samsongo...@hotmail.com > >>[10] mailto:cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com > >>[11] mailto:wal...@sugarlabs.org > > > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Sugar-devel mailing list > >>Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > >>http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
