Hello,

While no cost is indicated in the proposal, i expect that it should not have been too expensive to fund at ICANN level and wonder why this did not happen. I support this as well, however i think perhaps it could be done as a joint proposal to address that of AFRALO as well.

I note that the proposal indicated that the tool could be used by AFRALO (English <> French) but its not clear whether a new set of code development will not be required. So it may be be good if that part is updated to include the AFRALO region. Although i understand this is normally a regional thing, if what i suggest is not possible, perhaps AFRALO could also submit something similar and then it gets combined at a later time? I am available to take that up if required

Regards

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Dev Anand Teelucksingh <devtee@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear All,

Today is the deadline for budget proposals to be submitted to the
At-Large Finance and Budget Subcommittee (FBSC).

One longstanding technology issue is the machine translation used on
the LACRALO mailing list.
This has been documented extensively by the TTF at
https://community.icann.org/display/LACRALO/discussion-of-LACRALO-mailing-list-issues

Currently, the key issue is that ICANN doesn't have any dedicated
persons to fix this software tool. There is only one person from ICANN
IT staff who attempts to work on a new version of the translation tool
in his spare time, outside of ICANN hours. As this ICANN IT person is
very busy at ICANN and his volunteer efforts are appreciated, he has
little to no spare time to work on fixing the outstanding bugs in the
software. It is clear that a person is critically needed at ICANN with
a mandate to fixing this software.

Hence this budget request is for funding to be made available to ICANN
IT staff for ICANN to hire a programmer to work on ICANN’s new machine
translation tool and fix the remaining bugs so that the new software
tool can be installed and ease the communication difficulties faced by
LACRALO, the At-Large Community and ICANN Staff over the past 6 years.

Although this proposal was submitted to LACRALO earlier in the week,
it appears that LACRALO will not be considering any proposals for
submission.

Hence, the TTF will be submitting the attached proposal to the FBSC
for their review.

Kind Regards,

Dev Anand Teelucksingh,
TTF chair

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