[lac-discuss-en] Suggested LACRALO proposal to FBSC: Fixing the bugs in ICANN’s machine translation tool of LACRALO mailing lists

[Dev Anand Teelucksingh]

Dear All,

Please find a suggested LACRALO proposal for submiting to the FBSC
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yebkuhitmhxp03k/LACRALO-Mailing-List-FY17-Community-Request.pdf

It is a budget proposal for fixing the bugs in ICANN’s machine
translation tool used for the LACRALO mailing lists.

Since 2011, ICANN's custom software used to translate emails has many
severe bugs which has lead to very severe difficulties in
communication and collaboration with the English and Spanish speaking
communities in the LAC region.

The bugs include very garbled emails and unintelligible subject lines.

See PDF presentation http://bitly.com/1ltuwAU by the AtLarge
Technology Taskforce (TTF ;
https://community.icann.org/x/FpfbAQ ) for the ICANN53 meeting which
has worked to follow this issue with ICANN Staff, including
documenting the various LACRALO mailing list issues at
https://community.icann.org/x/z4VZAg wiki page.

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.


Kind Regards,

Dev Anand Teelucksingh
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