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 April 2016 at 08:00, samson goddy <samsongo...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the question Dave, Let me explain why the Yoruba came with > the price $6,000. Originally, The Yoruba come with a price of 1500 USD. > About the Internet plan in Nigeria is quite expensive. Like i told Tony, > getting a portable internet connection plus the device cost about $300 a > month. > Which provider/offer is this? :) > I also explained that getting anything related to tech is also expensive > in Nigeria. For example getting an iphone6 plus might cost about $700-800 > in USA or amazon, with the current exchange rate of 200 Nigerian naira to 1 > dollar doesn't make everything in Nigeria cheaper. To get that same phone > in Nigeria is about 250,000 naira here in Nigeria that about 1255.0225 US > Dollar, you see the difference. India or USA is not Nigeria these country > has a stable economy. You could do you research about Nigeria economy > currently and see for yourself. > I understand - India is pretty similar to that :) Is the breakdown of the $6k something like this? $1,500 translation $ 900 portable net @ $300/month x 3 months $3,600 laptops If there are other items, it seems the laptop is surely a larger item in the breakdown. So I wonder about the possibility of leasing/renting laptops. Eg I found http://xtramindsconcept.com.ng/laptops who advertise they leased a classroom of laptops to Google Nigeria. While that is in Lagos, I expect if you can visit a dozen computer repair shops, you could probably charm one of them to rent you some old stock for a good price. And there's also the 2nd hand market. Looking on olx.com I found a couple of nearly-new laptops for around USD$400 in Port Harcourt: https://www.olx.com.ng/ad/1-month-used-hp-pavilion-dv7-corei7-with-radeon-graphics-beat-audio-ID15HCC1.html https://www.olx.com.ng/ad/7months-old-hp-pavillion-for-sale-ID15I6yI.html (although you might also need that charm, "Carefully and softly used by a girl and so I wish a girl will also buy it" it says ;) I also find the $300/month mobile data cost high. How many Gb of data will you need? It seems that, new, its N15,000 ($USD75) for a hotspot wifi - http://www.gloworld.com/ng/personal/devices/portable-wifi-routers/ - and N5,000 (USD$25) for 5Gb of data - http://www.gloworld.com/ng/personal/data/data-plans/ - which can be doubled by working on a "campus" - http://www.gloworld.com/ng/personal/data/glo-campus-data-booster/ - and such hotspots can also be bought for around 1/3 of that price on olx.com Finally, how many translators would be involved for the $1,500, which is spent over 12 weeks? :) "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."? yes they can. Those who don't > want to use the xo any more normally give them to their young ones to use. > That's great! :) > "Finally, I think it would be cool to think about this funding as > investment, rather than just straight funding. You are going go through the > effort of finding people to translate, teaching them about Sugar, getting > new hardware for Sugar related projects, etc etc! It is a lot :) So, if you > do all that, I recommend thinking about how to use that built up energy and > value in a way that can move towards self-funding this kind of effort. For > example, offering workshops business model, because the risks can be > minimized and it can have low overheads, and there are several markets for > them - eg, offering sugar workshops to wealthier communities of parents who > are passionate about these languages; or, partnering with existing IT > training businesses."? Yes that is want i have in mind to do. > :D > Yes i would create Sugar Labs workshops, in Port Harcourt probably in > other parts of Nigeria too. These workshop will bring more users to the > sugar community, uses the xo's, Sugar on stick, sugarizer. It will be a > whole new word for Nigerians. I already find partners for the workshop. > And also i would really like if some one from Sugar Labs community will be > present too e.g like walter for Musics Blocks and Turtle art JS. Also most > of this questions you are answer is already been answered. I am spending a > lot of $ in cyber cafe. So i can't really answer all your questions. like i > said before SLOBs should invest in this proposal probably this April(i am > not forcing the issue) so that things can be done quicker. and i can be > able to start planing for workshops. > I am not a SLOB (nor even am I a Member, yet :) but I would like to see that, even if the primary purpose of the funds is translation, that this proposal can catalyse the nigeria deployments "graduates" into contributors - hopefully long term. So I'd like to suggest that you add more of these ideas into the proposal document, so that it can be turned into a motion at the next SLOB meeting. -- Cheers Dave
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