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Re: Arabic distro



Haydar, sorry for the late reply (since this is a new area for us and is
very important and will have future connotations, we are having lots of
internal discussion regarding this - by no means does it take us a long
time to make decisions though :-)

As noted after some internal discussion we have the following to note
(no major issues/surprises, just making sure everything is obvious).

 1. Please read the revised/attached "views" file
 2. A couple of REALLY obvious things (simply to make sure they were stated)
    a. All your and our code will be used by others (free/open) - there is
       NO exclusivity by either party
    b. Arabeyes' aims and goals are non-commercial and as such we (as well
       as you) have the right to partner with whomever we wish to further
       our cause without the need to get permission
 3. The way we envision the directory structure on CVS is as follows

      projects/distro/haydarlinux/

    All files/packages that are specific to the distribution will reside
    under that dir except in the few cases where projects (like xterm)
    could be used outside of the distro and could be viewed as their own
    projects - in those cases the "self-standing" project will be in

      projects/NAME     (ie. it will be outside of distro/haydar path)

    Similar to Akka/QaMoose, etc

 4. The "HaydarLinux" project will have its own page on arabeyes, akin to
    
      http://www.arabeyes.org/projects/haydarlinux.php

    which will abide and have the same format as all the other projects
    on Arabeyes.  This is important to maintain consistency on all the
    project pages hosted by Arabeyes.

 5. The project list that you mailed was very extensive and is somewhat
    long-termed at best.  At this current time we have interest in the
    following sub-projects you listed,

    a. Xterm
       i. Mail Program	(pine/mutt)
    b. WindowManager	(mainstream (windowmaker/E/fvwm/- not homegrown))
    c. Emacs		(note that a Japanese guy might fill this)
    d. OpenOffice
    e. hijri

 6. The other projects listed seemed to fall under the "translation"
    umbrella (ie. translate the interface, etc).  All "translation"
    projects are very VERY low priority to us, and on those projects
    WE (Arabeyes) will set the priorities on.

    In other words, only we will post to 'doc' noting what is priority
    for the translators will tackle next (this by no means, excludes you
    or others from soliciting help on the list and else-where, but you
    may not set Arabeyes' priorities and dictate what those volunteers
    will translate next).  The reason behind this seemingly militant
    rule is simply - we are trying to help the GENERAL Arab linux/unix
    community in large and so having limited focus does NOT serve that
    purpose.  For instance KDE/Gnome is certainly more important
    compared to "login/setup-configuration" setting on HaydarLinux
    and as such we'd like to maintain that clear distinction.

If you have any issues with this, please let us know.

BTW: Please note 2 new addition on Arabeyes
     a. PayPal is up and running
     b. ACN recently did a brief review of Arabeyes,
        article is noted on the www.arabeyes.org's front page

 - Nadim


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