I am happy to report that this motion has passed: 5 votes in favor, 1 vote opposed, and 1 member choosing not to vote.
regards. -walter On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > At today's Sugar Labs oversight board meeting [1], we discussed the motion > submitted by Chris Leonard to fund a program for translation of Sugar into > Yoruba, one of the three main languages spoken in Nigeria. I second the > motion and bring it to you in an email vote. > > Members of the oversight board, please reply to this email solicitation > for a vote on the following motion. > > Motion: To fund a program to initiate the translation of Sugar into > Yoruba. The specific milestones and costs are detailed below. A description > of the rationale for the project is found at [2]. The work would be led by > Samson Goddy and reviewed by Chris Leonard, in his role as Translation > Community Manager. > > This proposal is for the translation of Sugar user interface and > certain Sugar Activities into the Yoruba language (ISO-639 code - yo). > > Milestone 1 - The initial payment of $350 USD will cover startup costs > (internet connection fees, localizer recruitment/training, etc.). > Payment is to be made upon successful completion of contractual > arrangements with fiscal sponsor (SFC). > > Milestone 2 - Glucose - Payable upon completion and upload to Pootle > of the PO files for sugar, sugar-toolkit-gtk3, OLPC_switch_desktop > will be for $1,350 USD. Included in this milestone is a $300 USD > project management fee, in addition to fees of approximately 40 > cents/word for the projects included in this milestone. The uploaded > files must pass all "critical" error checks (as flagged by the Pootle > software) and be approved by the Sugar Labs Translation Community > Manager, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld. > > Milestone 2 must be completed prior to Milestone 3. > > Milestone 3 - Fructose - Payable upon completion and upload of the PO > files for Calculate, Chat, ImageViewer, Jukebox, Log, Paint, Pippy, > Portfolio, Read, ReadETexts, Record, Speak, Terminal, TurtleArt, Web, > Write will be for $2,300 USD. Included in this milestone is a $675 USD > project management fee, in addition to fees of approximately 40 > cents/word for the projects included in this milestone. The uploaded > files must pass all "critical" error checks (as flagged by the Pootle > software) and be approved by the Sugar Labs Translation Community > Manager, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld. > > Total anticipated costs for all three milestone payments will be $4,000 > USD. > > All projects are hosted on the Sugar Labs Pootle server at > > http://translate.sugarlabs.org/yo/ > > Translation may be performed off-line with subsequent upload to the > Pootle server. > > regards, > > -walter > > [1] > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Meeting_Minutes-2016-05-06 > [2] > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gtqpEOmDxxUYGdpbbBMlrPLQ-T6_OVnqdyAPJpaeORw/edit?usp=sharing > <https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Meeting_Minutes-2016-05-06> > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > <http://www.sugarlabs.org> > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org <http://www.sugarlabs.org>
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