November 9, 2018
To Oromo Society of Science and Technology Board Members
Subject: Request of budget allocation to OSST’s project of book writing
On September 12, 2018 I wrote a short proposal for budget request of writing English-Afan Oromo technical dictionary. After discussing with OSST’s executive board member, namely, Dr. Muluneh Oli, on how to effectively implement the project, we came to the conclusion that it necessary to focus on only five high school-based subjects (These are: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Computer and IT) in the first series of our book. In parallel, other experts are still working on different subjects (that will be considered as our second and third series on similar work). For now, the time frame and budget breakdown for the selected subjects is presented as follows:
Overall plan: 10,000 word × 5 ETB =50,000 ETB (may not be so exact)
Table 1. Time frame
|
No |
Field |
Time for draft copy |
Editing (by experts) |
Validation (by coordinators of the project) |
Printing |
|
1 |
Mathematics |
Jan 15
|
Jan 20 – Feb 28 |
March 1 – 20
|
Before April 20 |
|
2 |
Physics |
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3 |
Chemistry |
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4 |
Biology |
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5 |
Computer and IT |
Table 2. Budget breakdown
|
No |
Field |
Estimated words to be collected |
Cost |
Remark |
|
1 |
Mathematics |
2000 |
10,000 ETB |
|
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2 |
Physics |
2000 |
10,000 ETB |
|
|
3 |
Chemistry |
2000 |
10,000 ETB |
|
|
4 |
Biology |
2000 |
10,000 ETB |
|
|
5 |
Computer and IT |
2000 |
10,000 ETB |
|
|
|
Total |
10,000 words |
50,000 ETB |
|
Payment agreement: one technical word with full scientific definition=5 ETB. Estimated words planned to be collected per discipline =2000 technical words. So 2000´5=10,000. And for 5 disciplines, total=10,000´5=50,000 ETB
Payment schedule
- Till Jan 15th, 60% (0.6×50,000=30,000 ETB) will be paid…. [by this time 6000 technical terms expected]
- Till validation time (Mar 20th) the remaining 40% (0.4×50,000=20,000 ETB) will be paid
With regards,
Garuma Abdisa