Hi,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Yohan Sumathipala <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yohan123@gmail.com">yohan123@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Mr. Leonard, Mr. Holt, Mr. Battley,</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="ltr"><div>Catalyst for Hope Project - Sri Lanka - UPDATE</div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div> Answers to questions brought up via e-mail and Sep 28 LiveChat:</div><div><br></div><div>1) <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>Sinhala translation of Sugar UI</b>: We have found a great volunteer, </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Pahan Charithanga in Sri Lanka to help with that. This is what he said regarding the e-mail from Mr. Leonard.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">"I contributed OLPC during my internship period and I am ready to contribute again. We conducted some teachers workshops and provided technical assistance for them. I can talk to people who worked with me and get their involvement as well. </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">For the translation of the UI we can get sinhala blogging community, and university student's contributions. All we have to do is make aware about the project". </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Pahan's contact: <b><a href="mailto:pahan123@gmail.com" target="_blank">pahan123@gmail.com</a></b></span></div>
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">2. Dr. Jayantha has talked in depth with the local school staff: here are her comments - </span><div>
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">" -- We can get the maximum support from the school staff. One or two dedicated teachers are possible to get trained. </span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> -- Internet access is also possible. </span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> -- Graders 8 and 9 (12-14 years old) are better suited for the project" - for now. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">3. Electricity is available at school.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">We are eager to move forward with this. Please let us know what the next step is to get OLPC laptops to Sri Lanka. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Thanks</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Yohan</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Chris Leonard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com" target="_blank">cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div>If you or your friends could help complete the translation of the Sugar UI that runs on the XO laptop into:</div></div></blockquote></div><div>Tamil:<br><a href="http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ta/" target="_blank">http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ta/</a><br>
or Sinhala:<br><a href="http://translate.sugarlabs.org/si/" target="_blank">http://translate.sugarlabs.org/si/</a><br>It would be a very nice way of giving back in a manner that would help both your kids and others in Sri Lanka.<br>
cjl<br>Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator<br><br></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br></div></div><br></blockquote><div><br>Let me know if any one need to contribute to the Sugar l10n in Sinhala.<br>
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I have been working for Sugar localization.<br>
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About the blogging community:<br>
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Some time ago we did very first translation marathon in Sri Lanka and the quality of translation was not good.<br>
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Since the product is targeting for School Kids, we have to concern about
the quality specially those kids are in primary schools where they just
start learning their native language.<br>
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The Sugar l10n process was conducted with the help of school teachers in Sri Lanka.<br>
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Best Regards,<br></div></div>-- <br>Danishka Navin<br><a href="http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com</a><br><a href="http://twitter.com/danishkanavin" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/danishkanavin</a><br>
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