Re: [general] [doc] Fw: GNOME translations and more

Website:
see point 2 in Techdict ...

Techdict:
I think we should expand our base, and try using other resources available on the web. e.g.:
1. Searching for existing techdicts to use (on stardict); or to take suggestions from.
2. Making a blog or so to allow other people to contribute their suggestions and discussion; this will help with the 3rd suggestion. This will need an anti-spam plug-in.
3. Spread the idea of the techdict to every possible useful translation and arabization community available in order to get more contributors and so suggestions.
What do you think?

IRC Meeting:
The time works fine for me; it will be 8:00pm on our local time (summer timing).
The name of the channel? and the host?
suggestion: arabeyes at freenode dot net

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A. Fakhouri

From: Abderrahim Kitouni <a dot kitouni at gmail dot com>
To: Majid AL-Dharrab <majid at aldharrab dot com>; general at arabeyes dot org
Sent: Fri, April 22, 2011 12:32:46 AM
Subject: Re: [general] [doc] Fw: GNOME translations and more

Salam,

(Please keep this on the general list, moving a thread around isn't a
good idea. I mostly intended this as a "status of Arabeyes" mail)

في ر، 20-04-2011 عند 22:13 +0300 ، كتب Majid AL-Dharrab:
> I don't think changing the website interface is a priority right now.
> It might need some attention, but a complete change of the system
> doesn't seem appropriate -for the time being, at least- as long as it
> does the job. That can be further discussed separately apart from
> GNOME i18n discussion.

I was just making an announcement about the GNOME translation, I wanted
to post to the doc list separately about that.

As for the website, the main goal of 'changing the system' is to allow
translations. An Arabic website is better for attracting new
contributors.

>
> I guess we really need to work more on the techdict to make it a
> centralized reference for all Arabeyes members.

It is already supposed to be. I agree it hasn't seen much love recently,
but it's mostly ok. I'm thinking of posting "terms of the week" mails to
the doc list to make it active again.

> About translation priorities, don't you guys think that translating
> documentation for some packages is more important than translating
> new, unpopular applications?

Yes, we should set priorities. What I think is the most important thing
right now is to review the existing translations. If we have enough
manpower, we will try to translate documentation as well.

> As for IRC meetings, that sounds very important for managing
> contributions. The times you mentioned are good, too. Wouldn't be
> better to talk about these ideas and start assigning translations in
> the next IRC meeting? Looking forward to that. :)

I was more asking for precise times that would work for you, but since
you don't want that, I'm going to choose a time myself. What do you
think of this Saturday 23 April, at 17:00 UTC? I might be a bit late,
but I think it's an otherwise good time for out first meeting.

So what do you think?

Abderrahim

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