Re: IMPORTANT STUFF

[Chahine Hamila <HALCON11 at terra dot es>]

Heeeh... I'm not sure I expressed myself well enough:)
There *is* money, and that's why I am saying we could get Arabeyes involved.
Let me give you a very simple example: when developping the GUI for this soft,
you will need a toolkit. Instead of taking the MS one, we could decide to use
GTK for Win32. Now, GTK is not arabized. So we could consider it as part of
this work to be done when submitting the project. Arabizing software like GTK
falls very much inside the scope of Arabeyes, and so is creating new free Arab
software. It would NOT be done on a volunteer basis, but on a very paid one.
IOW, I am saying that when submiting the project plan for funding by the
government of Aragon, we can seize the opportunity to drop in a "bit" of
arabization without telling them it's for arabization's sake but selling it as
part of their software development's work (though leaving the free parts under
free licenses of course). Got the picture?
Your commitment would come if the idea seems appealing enough to you, in the
sense that you guys would do the effort of writing down a plan, while I would
take care of the rest of the administrative work (hey, I'm becoming an expert
in that;)).
Interested?
Y'allah, salam,
Chahine
PS: Mohamed or Nadim, please delete these messages from the archives, they're
too serious to be left on an internet storage. Thanks.
PPS: Nadim, es mismo mejor para el proyecto si estais interasados que hables
español:)
PPPS: Nadim, yes, I thought about developing the stuff in Syria, and kind of
hinted it actually, but the government of Aragon wouldn't want to fund
something that would be produced outside Spain (which means, if you are
involved and most of all IF we get the funding, you would come in, all
expenses paid of course, at least temporarily, for the summer or whenever it
suits you. Insisting on the IF)...


Nadim Shaikli a *crit :

> On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:07:37 +0100
>  "Chahine Hamila" <HALCON11 at terra dot es> wrote:
> >
> >                   So he asked me to submit a project whose goal is to
> > create a piece of software that would teach Spanish to Arab adult
> > immigrants. I will send you details of what he would like to see in such
> > a soft, but it might get funding from the Aragonese government if
> > seriously presented (and might not of course, no need to start dreaming
> > until one sees the money ;)).
>
> [snip snip]
>
> > Guys, with your experience in technical arabization (plus Mustafa's
> > linguistic expertise in teaching Arabs foreign languages) I could try to
> > get you involved and have some serious things done here.
> > Please don't have any illusion, and I insist on this, most projects
> > always end up being only that, projects. But if you guys tell me that
> > you want to be SERIOUSLY COMMITED, and I meant it when I say I need your
> > SERIOUS COMMITMENT on this, I can invest my time on it if you make an
> > effort, because who knows, we might get something after all (arabization
> > + job and/or free tourism in Europe for you;)).
>
> Chahine, I certainly don't speak for the others - but this completely
> falls outside what arabeyes was set-up to do (developing customized
> software wasn't something we were looking to do any time soon);  with that
> said if there is funding involved, then your Syrian (as well as other)
> connections might come in very handy is getting the actual work done with
> us giving whatever expertise and advice we can.
>
> I am not sure what you mean by COMMITMENT - I'm not sure what there is to
> commit to since things are not solidified yet.  I do think that it would be
> beneficial for arabeyes to be involved somehow, but I don't think that any
> of us should sacrifice introducing Arabic support to the world in lieu of
> developing custom software (given that there is no money involved).  If
> there is payment, then as noted I would highly suggest farming the work to
> someone else and having us be in charge of the project.
>
> Those are "my" initial thoughts.
>
> BTW: I speak a bit of Spanish :-)
>
> Hasta Luego Senior - si necessita mas informacion, nos pregunta :-)
>
>  - Nadim
>
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