Re: IBM again

[Walid Shaari <ws070 at mdx dot ac dot uk>]

On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 23:42, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> --- Mohammed Yousif <mhdyousif gmx net> wrote:
> > On Friday 18 October 2002 18:58, Mohamed Eldesoky wrote:
> > > Can you believe that man ??
> > > He was the same man who organized the LAW2001 in cairo.
> > > http://www.ameinfo.com/cgi-bin/fevent/showarticle.cgi?id=101302181704
> >
> > I tended to beleive Mr.Hani Abdel-Aziz before, it's all '`7ed3a' !
> 
> After much research (mostly by Mr. Elzubeir) IBM seems to be doing
> something - what that something is is rather unknown to most of us.
> IBM also seems to be using li18nux.org (now openi18n.org) as a medium
> (and unfortunately that medium is far from being truly "open").  What
> is ___REALLY___ frustrating and what really stinks is that the mailing
> lists on that site are,
> 
>  1. Not archived
>  2. Don't seem to be well staffed - ie. you post a question or
>     a comment and you simply don't get replies/acknowledgments
>  3. There is no sense (from what I saw) of how one goes about
>     getting more info on their work (to verify or take interest
>     in); I'm not sure how they disperse info (nothing similar to
>     freshmeat.net)
> 
> Which leads most people to frustration and simply discounting (rightly
> or wrongly) any of their work.

I have found that 

http://www.openi18n.org/meetings/past/BiDi_001019.htm

there are a couple of email contacts at the bottom, thats what you need as a point of contact may be

Walid