[technology taskforce] TTF proposal to ICANN for FY17 - Fixing the bugs in ICANN’s machine translation tool used for the LACRALO mailing lists

Dev Anand Teelucksingh devtee at gmail.com
Fri Jan 22 18:34:12 UTC 2016


Thanks to all for the expressions of support.

Dev Anand

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Jimmy Schulz
<jimmy.schulz at fdp-oberbayern.de> wrote:
> I suppot this proposal!
>
> Am 22.01.2016 um 13:43 schrieb Dev Anand Teelucksingh:
>> 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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