Hi Walter and SLOBs, In 2013, I was asked to participate in a Haitian Creole translation program with SugarLabs, TripAdvisor, and EducaVision. Predictably, there was a trivial software issue and I never saw this work completed.
I did release a Sugar activity which is on "HaitiOS" laptops today, and a static HTML+JS app which you can access here https://github.com/mapmeld/diy-dictionary I don't see Haiti mentioned in your TripAdvisor email. I have friends still working with Sugar in Haiti, so I'm curious, is money still allocated for Haitian Creole? After 3 years, can another Creole translator be selected? Thanks. Regards, Nick Doiron On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> wrote: > I was asked to repost the statement of work from the Trip Advisor grant. > Here it is: > > There are two specific goals for the Tripadvisor grant: > > (1) Broaden the reach of our indigenous language support. Currently we > have language projects in ~150 languages (for example, we cover Aymara, > Quechua, Gurani and other languages of the Andes region). But the problem > is enormous: for example, in Nigeria, there are more than 300 languages > spoken. We only have partial coverage in four of these languages. We need > to push much harder on making Sugar be available in the local language of > the learner; this requires both outreach and coordination that is above and > beyond what we can support strictly through our volunteer efforts. So we > are hoping to establish a seed fund to help with translation efforts: > augmenting the efforts of our volunteers with some professional translation > services in Latin America, Africa, and South Asia. > > (2) Support for a major new outreach initiative we are launching in > October 2013. We are celebrating International Turtle Art Day (Turtle Art > is a programming environment for children that is one of the cornerstone > apps bundled with the Sugar platform.) We are trying to: > * Promote the use of Turtle Art (We have three million users, but would > like to double that number over the next three years); > * Share and promote best practices (We want to ensure that our users are > getting maximum value from their investment of time); > * Celebrate projects for children and teachers (We want to bring children > together to their local venues and connect them globally through a shared > project site to their peers as a way of encouraging them to push themselves > further -- creating a network effect around learning opportunities). > > Internationalization and localization are on-going efforts for us and > areas we take quite seriously. As we expand to more regions, the need to > develop and sustain local localization teams 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 by our user community, with an emphasis on expanding our reach in > Africa. > > Turtle Art Day is scheduled for October 2013. (We already have venues > lined up in the United States, Peru, Colombia, Nicaragua, Paraguay, > Uruguay, Nigeria, India, and Australia). We hope that Turtle Art Day will > be an annual event, celebrated simultaneously in 100s of venues. We are > asking TAMG to be the inaugural event sponsor and to help us establish a > framework by which it can be readily replicated in the coming years. > > The internationalization and localization work would be overseen by Chris > Leonard, the Sugar Labs Internationalization Team leader. The management of > the funds would be overseen by the executive director, Walter Bender, who > also happens to be the lead developer of the Turtle Art program. Sugar Labs > will provide Tripadvisor with detailed reports on all spending. > regards. > > -walter > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > <http://www.sugarlabs.org> > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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