Dear All, Please find a suggested LACRALO proposal for submiting to the FBSC https://www.dropbox.com/s/yebkuhitmhxp03k/LACRALO-Mailing-List-FY17-Communit... 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