Re: [IAEP] MOTION: French visa for Samson Goddy to attend 10-year Anniversary Scratch Conf / 50-year Anniversary of Logo

[Samson Goddy]

I will take sole responsibility for the lost and if it happen, i didn't get
the visa.

What are the "XXX" for?

On Jun 4, 2017 12:58 PM, "Adam Holt"  wrote:

Please all who can support this motion, thank you for doing so, once [XXX]
is clarified below:

"To support Samson Goddy's attending 2017 Scratch conference in Bordeaux,
France (19-21 July 2017) to strengthen our relationship with Scratch, Sugar
Labs should allocate up to $500 in support of his obtaining a French visa,
including (as nec) travel from Port Harcourt to Lagos for as many days as
required.  Any receipts to this end, Samson will submit to the Software
Freedom Conservancy.  It is understood that if the French government very
unfortunately turns down his visa application, preventing him from
attending Bordeaux, these lost funds will be borne by [XXX]."

Where [XXX] could be Scratch, Sugar Labs, or Samson Goddy -- accountants
don't like financial mystery meat, for very good reason ;)

Regards


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Re: [IAEP] MOTION to budget professional services for a Yoruba-Igbo XO build WAS [Re: Yoruba localization contract completed

[Laura Vargas]

2017-06-03 11:04 GMT-05:00 Chris Leonard :

> On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Laura Vargas 
> wrote:
>
> >> > So, I propose the following Motion:
> >> >
> >> > SL will allocate a budget of US$TBD for "professional services"
> required
> >> > to
> >> > create a fitable image for Samson's and Ibiam's young XO partners in
> >> > Africa.
> >> > SL will make an open call to the mailing list to find one or more
> >> > professional to do it.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Hope we can start using SL money to actually outreach Sugar learners!
> >> >
> >>
> >> The PO files have been committed to the relevant repos and as new
> >> Activity releases have been made (thanks Quozl for your recent
> >> Fructose push) they have been made available via ASLO.  It is true
> >> that a build of the core UI strings would be needed, but I thought
> >> that might come via a new SOAS release.
> >>
> >> Are you proposing a custom build for Nigeria?
> >
> >
> > Yes.
> >>
> >>
> >> If so, I would request that OLPC switch desktop PO file for Igbo be
> >> completed before such an attempt was made.
> >
> >
> > I understand there would be technical and academic considerations in
> order
> > to detail the work to be done. I hope you can guide the execution from
> the
> > translation's POV.
> >
>
> Of course, I would welcome the opportunity to assist.
>
> > The objective of the motion is to define if it is worth to rescue all the
> > work and investment (community's time and money) done last year by Sugar
> > Labs on Samson's and Ibiam's line of work.
>
> A funded project for a single-purpose build would not be as valuable
> as adding a component to it that included improving documentation (and
> possibly toolchain) of the custom-build process in such a way that it
> is more easily repeated by others.  That way it is an investment in a
> repeatable process, not a single product.  Just a thought.
>
>
+1 Adding the documentation requirement It's a very good idea.

Blessings and happy Sunday.

Laura V

cjl
>



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[IAEP] MOTION: French visa for Samson Goddy to attend 10-year Anniversary Scratch Conf / 50-year Anniversary of Logo

[Adam Holt]

Please all who can support this motion, thank you for doing so, once [XXX]
is clarified below:

"To support Samson Goddy's attending 2017 Scratch conference in Bordeaux,
France (19-21 July 2017) to strengthen our relationship with Scratch, Sugar
Labs should allocate up to $500 in support of his obtaining a French visa,
including (as nec) travel from Port Harcourt to Lagos for as many days as
required.  Any receipts to this end, Samson will submit to the Software
Freedom Conservancy.  It is understood that if the French government very
unfortunately turns down his visa application, preventing him from
attending Bordeaux, these lost funds will be borne by [XXX]."

Where [XXX] could be Scratch, Sugar Labs, or Samson Goddy -- accountants
don't like financial mystery meat, for very good reason ;)
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