<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453736981695_25138">Dear All:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453736981695_25298"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453736981695_25299" dir="ltr">I support the proposal for budgeting for technical support to fix bugs in the various programs. It makes sense and should be implemented. One question I have is what are the cost estimates?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453736981695_25300" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453736981695_25301" dir="ltr">Kind regards.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453736981695_24996"><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453736981695_24997"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453736981695_24999" class="signature"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453736981695_24998">Kolubahzizi T. Howard <br>President <br>ISOC Liberia Chapter &<br>Director of Strategy<br>Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) <br>+231-776200000/+231880539961/+231-555660001</div></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, January 22, 2016 12:44 PM, Dev Anand Teelucksingh <devtee@gmail.com> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">Dear All,<br><br>Today is the deadline for budget proposals to be submitted to the<br>At-Large Finance and Budget Subcommittee (FBSC).<br><br>One longstanding technology issue is the machine translation used on<br>the LACRALO mailing list.<br>This has been documented extensively by the TTF at<br><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/LACRALO/discussion-of-LACRALO-mailing-list-issues" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/LACRALO/discussion-of-LACRALO-mailing-list-issues</a><br><br>Currently, the key issue is that ICANN doesn't have any dedicated<br>persons to fix this software tool. There is only one person from ICANN<br>IT staff who attempts to work on a new version of the translation tool<br>in his spare time, outside of ICANN hours. As this ICANN IT person is<br>very busy at ICANN and his volunteer efforts are appreciated, he has<br>little to no spare time to work on fixing the outstanding bugs in the<br>software. It is clear that a person is critically needed at ICANN with<br>a mandate to fixing this software.<br><br>Hence this budget request is for funding to be made available to ICANN<br>IT staff for ICANN to hire a programmer to work on ICANN’s new machine<br>translation tool and fix the remaining bugs so that the new software<br>tool can be installed and ease the communication difficulties faced by<br>LACRALO, the At-Large Community and ICANN Staff over the past 6 years.<br><br>Although this proposal was submitted to LACRALO earlier in the week,<br>it appears that LACRALO will not be considering any proposals for<br>submission.<br><br>Hence, the TTF will be submitting the attached proposal to the FBSC<br>for their review.<br><br>Kind Regards,<br><br>Dev Anand Teelucksingh,<br>TTF chair<br>_______________________________________________<br>ttf mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:ttf@atlarge-lists.icann.org" href="mailto:ttf@atlarge-lists.icann.org">ttf@atlarge-lists.icann.org</a><br><a href="https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ttf" target="_blank">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ttf</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>