On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Sebastian Silva <sebast...@fuentelibre.org> 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. > Ideally we would have a proper Translate Activity that would work > directly with git (even offline by producing patches). > > Would the Trip Advisor grantees consider developing such an Activity? > If done right it could both facilitate i18n and motivate some Sugar > Activity development.
My thoughts on the matter are that we need to survey our current baseline, in progress, then discuss the results openly and consider best paths forward. A hypothetical Translate Activity would be a logical extension of the Sugar HIG concept of showing source code and have substantial potential ot reach an even wider audience than we do currently and by implementing a unique "bootstrapping" capability. It would require substantial input from a broad array of stakeholders to achieve it's potentially complex goals. IMHO, some good requirements gathering and design specification should be done before just launching into it. Whether to turn such an effort into a funded project would need to be subject to further discussion. Our L10n funding has traditionally been more-or-less a "single-source" contracting decision. As in, "we may only know one person or group who is standing up to do something useful, do we want to support it"? The question of core activity development has traditionally been approached as a challenge of cultivating collaborating communities. I don't know under what terms OLPC got the AbiWord folks to develop the initial version of Write, but that might be the closest example of an activity with as wide a potential impact on the user-base in terms of facilitating meaningful self-expression. If a consensus of developing such an activity through funding emerged, it would be advisable to consider a formal request for Proposal (RFP) based on a well-developed consensus requirements document. At least that is my opinion. cjl _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep