Contribution for Fulah langage (ff)

[Ibrahima Malal Sarr]

Hi all,
I am Ibrahima Sarr (best known in the Fulah Community as Ibrahima Malal
Sarr). I am the main contributor of the Fulah (ff) Unicode data, created
back in the years 2000+ as part of the 100 locales for African languages
project. Then run by the African Network for Localization (ANLOC).
For the record, Fulah almost missed that project as when I heard about it,
it was one week before the submission deadline! I had been working on the
language codification and digitization since around the early nineties, but
that opportunity for Fulah to be included in Unicode was just an incredible
opportunity!
One week, one person, one computer! It was much too late to build a team,
communications then was difficult (by eƴpensiɓe phone calls or mail that
never arrives) simply because many did not have their own computers. So I
spent that week working as hard as I can preferably at night. From 11PM to
7Am, then I go to bed until around 3PM, then back to work again during the
night!
By the end of the week, I had already completed the work. Reviewing and
correcting typos took the rest of the time until I was ready to submit!
Phew!
Then, I received an email from the project owners! I was so nervous because
I was convinced they were going to tell me about the deadline, that it was
probably too late!
I was right about the deadline, but the email said that *the deadline was
postponed one week* because they had very little submissions!
I almost collapsed! Why didn't you tell me that before? I would have worked
with less stress, eaten decent food, ironed my clothes and washed my
dishes!!!
That funny story was the beginning of the Fulah adventure in Unicode. Later
that year, Fulah was included in the CLDR!
Since, I have not had the opportunity to work on that data as I did not
know how to contribute, file tickets, submit a keyboard and other updates
that the language needs. And I still do not know! That is the purpose of
this long message, which I am sorry about.
To sum up, I would like to know how to have an account that will allow me
to carry on the work because we have evolved a great deal since: Firefox,
Facebook have been translated into Fulah. I have also created keyboards for
Windows, MacOS, Android.... Unfortunately, there is still no Fulah keyboard
on Windows 10, yet it has existed since the 90s.
Any insight or help would be much appreciated.

Best regards
Ibrahima Malal Sarr

Twitter: @ibrahimasaar
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