Re: Linux.com Article

[Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi at arabeyes dot org>]

On Tuesday 19 November 2002 02:54, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> --- Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi arabeyes org> wrote:
> >   I've been having some talk with Mr.Robin Miller, Editor in Chief in
> > www.linux.com.. he asked me if it is possible to write an article about
> > Arabeyes for linux.com .. I told him that it will be my pleasure .. I
> > plan to have it ready by next sunday .. I plan to make it a general
> > article .. such
>
> I'm not sure if he asked you some questions which you are going to answer,
> but I suggest we deal with it like we've dealt with all articles - have
> us all contribute and stick it under LOCALCVS.

No .. When I told him that I've done some articles for a local newspaper, he 
asked me if I can write about Arabeyes .. I will sent it, he will edit it and 
publish it under my name .. So it will be my homework :-) but I have to make 
sure that it will have what we need the most in these days..

> BTW: have these communications taken place via voice/phone ?

In IRC .. I had some email corespondance with him .. asked him over to 
irc.oprnprojects.net .. and so I met him..


> > as the article in THE STAR newspaper .. or maybe we can use it to reach
> > more poeple .. and make it an article to get people .. I am not sure ..
> > please post your views ..
>
> Any press and any PR is good - I'm all for it.
>
> > My talk with Mr. Miller was about his attendance to the OSS conferance in
> > Jordan .. he wanted to make some screenshots for Arabic working in
> > OpenSource software such as OpenOffice, KDE, Gnome, and so .. and when he
> > know that Arabeyes will be present, he said that maybe he will leave this
> > to our presenation .. I like the idea of having some screenshots for
> > Arabic working.. it is what IBM and hancome do to make people think that
> > they've done something ..:-)
>
> Sure - that could follow the actual presentation itself.  You had noted
> that you will have your own laptop with Linux on it, no ?  If so, then
> proceed with the canned presentation and then simply say, here are some
> examples of our work.  Show them KDE/Gnome with all the translations.
> Show them a UTF-8 Arabic file in xterm (it will look like garbage) and
> then display it in mlterm - try to write something arabic in 'vi' (can't
> do it :-) then start up vim/katoob/emacs-bidi and do, etc, etc.
>
> I'm not sure the screen-shots are necessary as long as the machine is
> attached to the projector.

Well ready-made screenshots have the time to show the needed test .. we can 
show a number of applications with Arabic support with a click or a space 
between each picture .. saving the time to set what we want to show .. but 
ofcourse I will note that I am using Linux in the LapTop .. 
  Another Thing .. Mr. Miller will have his Laptop with him .. with Linux .. 
so in the worst case .. I can use his LapTop .. and the screenshots will work 
.. becuase I am not 100% sure that I can bring it .. It is for my uncle .. 
and I hope that he will be in town around those days ..


Salam
Isam