Re: Bidi-less Applications Patching Policy

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs dot toronto dot edu> wrote:
> You know my vote of course.  But I'm not in Arabeyes really.  And
> of course Roozbeh just copies mine, if that matters.
> 
> I'm up to clear my relation to Arabeyes sometime next week.
> It's more about the policies.  Mine is to contribute to Free
> Software (as defined by http://www.fsf.org/), while Arabeyes' is
> apparently not.

Hrmmm... A couple of things to note in passing,

 + Arabeyes is NOT an exclusive club.  If you have participated and/or
   are even willing to participate then you are very much a member
   (and don't ask... I don't know what that means either).  In reality
   what it does stand for is someone that has interest in issues that
   relate to open source and Arabic characters and/or interests (simply
   put).  As such I see no reason to 'not be in Arabeyes' (last I checked
   we didn't have the plague - I hope everyone is upto date on their
   vaccines :-)

 + In terms of relationships - I'm not sure this is really needed.
   We all work (and overwork) because we either love this, or it 
   interests us or we simply yearn to be included to improve our stance
   in various mental competitions.  Again, one thing to keep focus of
   is FUN - I have a feeling lots of people have long ago forgotten
   why and how they got into this (due to newly found pressure, fame,
   monetary gain, marriage, kids, tunnels :-)

In short, Arabeyes in a grand sense is NOT a rigid set of people - we
are here to help, learn and show results (we've been trying to be VERY
flexible and roll with the punches in the sense that we've been trying
to come-up with logical need-based rules/opinions/directions).  The mandate
was/is simple enough in that regard.

Salam.

 - Nadim


	
		
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