[Localization] Language admin for Indonesia?

Tue Mar 29 00:46:01 EDT 2011

I have this from a group working in West Papua (contact hennyyap at gmail.com) 

Hello all,

my name is Henny, Jeremy's PhD student. 

I'd suggest Arief to contact Sampoerna Foundation Teacher Institute (SFTI) and Muhammadiyah because in January I met with some people from these organisations and we had a chat about OLPC Indonesia.

SFTI is an organisation that is experienced in providing teacher professional development programs in Indonesia, including in remote schools. The staff have the knowledge, experience and database needed to run OLPC Indonesia. 

Muhammadiyah is a very influential organisation in Indonesia and they have schools all over the country. They tried One Child One Laptop project a few years ago but the project was dropped because the tax to get the laptops into the country was too high.

A few things came up from the meeting:

1. Both organisations are keen to be involved and both have the capacity to run it. A collaboration is possible.

2. We will need an NGO formed in order to get sponsorship.

3. If we can get more than 1000 laptops, there is a possibility that Muhammadiyah can approach the ministry to get tax leniency. 

4. The University of Sunshine Coast planned to deploy XO laptops in West Papua and we are waiting to hear from them about the issues surrounding the deployment. 
I have not checked this yet but if I remember correctly, if the laptops are given as a gift (hibah) they would not be taxed.

5. An MoU can be made between the organisations/NGO with research organisations e.g. universities regarding professional development, content building, deployment, evaluation, etc.

No move has been made to start OLPC Indonesia but we have people who are experienced, able and keen. I would think sponsorship is not a problem once the NGO is formed as there are quite a few companies who are interested in Indonesia, especially in education.

If Arief can contact me then I'll give him the contacts of the organisations mentioned above.

Cheers,
Henny

David Leeming
Solomon Islands Rural Link 

-----Original Message-----
From: localization-bounces at lists.laptop.org [mailto:localization-bounces at lists.laptop.org] On Behalf Of Arief M Utama
Sent: Tuesday, 29 March 2011 3:35 p.m.
To: Rafael Ortiz; Edward Cherlin; localization at lists.laptop.org
Subject: Re: [Localization] Language admin for Indonesia?

Thanks Rafael, Edward, Chris,

Good to be here, I hope I can give positive contribution.

All the best.
-arief

On 3/29/11, Rafael Ortiz <rafael at laptop.org> wrote:
> Chris, Edward Thanks.
>
> Arief welcome aboard!.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sounds good. Arief, are you all set?
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 00:04, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Edward,
>> >
>> > Areif is a member of the olpc-indonesia mailing list and I reached out
>> > to
>> > him looking for help recruiting additional localizers.  Indonesian does
>> not
>> > have a lang admin at present.  My advice to him on how to contribute was
>> > that we could use a lang-id admin and that we like to address such
>> requests
>> > through an informal and open community process (posting to the L10n
>> list).
>> >
>> > A good start on a lang-admin's duties is this page:
>> >
>> > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Translation_Team/Administration_QuickStart
>> >
>> > Areif, what is your Pootle username?  I need to know that to in order to
>> > grant that username language admin privilege on Pootle.  If you have not
>> > registered on the Pootle server yet, please do so.
>> >
>> > http://translate.sugarlabs.org/
>> >
>> > cjl
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 13:20, Arief M Utama <arief.utama at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Hi all,
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Just joining here per Chris Leonard's advice,
>> >> >
>> >> > Do we have a language admin for Indonesia?
>> >>
>> >> Have you asked anybody in the project other than Chris?
>> >>
>> >> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/id/
>> >>
>> >> Top Contributors    Suggestions
>> >> XRayDG  112
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>> >> cjl     3
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>> >>
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>> >>
>> >> Submissions
>> >> cjl     36
>> >>
>> >> If nobody is handling registration and permissions of localizers, and
>> >> commits, I'm willing to do it until I can train someone else to take
>> >> over. The job is not difficult, and takes very little time. I did the
>> >> same with Haitian Creole and Cambodian Khmer, even though I don't
>> >> speak either.
>> >>
>> >> I invite people to consider participating in our other translation
>> >> projects, for the Wiki, for FLOSS Manuals, and for replacing textbooks
>> >> (now being set up.)
>> >>
>> >> > I'd like to join the translation process. If there isn't any, how do
>> >> > I
>> >> > contribute to become one?
>> >>
>> >> See my advice on the Wiki.
>> >>
>> >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Localization#Getting_started
>> >>
>> >> > Myself is an Indonesian native, have been using linux for several
>> years
>> >> > now, aside from registering in olpc-indonesia list I'm a complete
>> >> > stranger with OLPC project.
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > All the best.
>> >> > -arief
>> >> >
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