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Re: My next Arabeyes projects...



 

Nadim Shaikli a *crit :

> - Akka 2.0 of course
>
> - Teach Your Kids Arabix (TYKA)
    + AraBasic
    + AraML

> - Unix Tools Arabization
>
> - Debian Website Translation
>
> - Reverse Bidi Specs and implementation in Fribidi or standalone library.

Chahine - all sound interesting (esp. TYKA -- note vim's charityware license,
you might want to look into creating an Arab-charityware license for akka :-)

Isn't VIM GPL? Sorry not to rush to reading the license, but what does a charityware license does Nadim?
 
But to be completely honest with you none of them are essential RIGHT NOW in
regards to Arabeyes and getting us ahead a bit.  I agree that all need to be
addresses (again esp. TYKA), but those seem more open-ended and more long
term.

The following HOT-PLATE issues concern me (if you are looking for something
to work on next),

 - XFree86's reply to including shaped Arabic font (code work ??)

Can you send me a link to the relevant messages please Nadim, I've received so many these last days I'm somewhat confused, especially if you keep in mind that I have been heavily working on Akka while at the same time reviewing my incoming exams:)
 - Arabic xterm (axterm is there - we need fribidi (?) and to incorporate
   changes into main trunk - axterm author is on-board, but busy)
Yes, this one is quite interesting, a gnome-terminal or Kvt with Arabic support. But since I don't want to bother learning KDE programming, Kvt won't be for me, so if I pick up this one, I'll start with the gnome-terminal.
 - Spell-checker (Elzubeir's baby/orphan & sowalieh ?)
Yes, great project but HEAVY work.
 - Web-based project/task manager (like 2-3 days worth of work for you, I
   have some concrete ideas (similar to epiware but much much smaller :-)
details plz?
 

That's what I have in mind (by all means not complete).
 

I might add dict protocol for Qamoose... Which is easy work in fact, probably worth a day work if we rely on the dictd server... Just give me a few days to concentrate on my exams first:)

Any other idea Nadim? Isam? Moe?

Yalla, salaam,
Chahine