Re: Mandrake club membership

[Munzir Taha Obeid <munzirtaha at myrealbox dot com>]

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I have bought the money and waiting for the activation of the account.

On Friday 15 August 2003 4:42 pm, Muhammad Alkarouri wrote:
> While joining the mandrake club and voting is certainly a way to support
> arabization, it is not that scalable as I don't there are many of us who
> would buy a membership for that.
You are right but I hope even one can do something because I have votes every 
week or something. If I kept voting for one year (how many weeks?) I think I 
can do something at least in the next release.

> A better solution, IMHO, is to coordinate with the arabic team for
> internationalization in mandrake, I hope they will push things better,
> and any testing/developing can be helped by arabeyes members.
> A page explaining the situation with the Mandrake distro should be a
> welcome addition to the distro project in arabeyes. Nadim was already
> asking if there are people who would volunteer for other distros.
Ok then I would be happy to volunteer for Mandrake if Nadim and others accept 
this. I will be happy to follow your steps then though I think the task for 
me would be easier than your case ;)


> Even if the packages did not catch the freeze date, they can be packaged
> for the distro and put in a single repository. For mandrake, I believe
> you can make a single http repository and add it to urpmi for these
> packages. At least I was having such a thought for redhat (making a apt
> or yum repository). Think of it..

Yes, urpmi - but I am looking for support out of the box for newbies.

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