Re: New Project Proposal: The ArabicOpenCD

["Djihed Afifi" <djihedlists at googlemail dot com>]

Bashar,

Thanks for very much your very insighful ideas, they are appreciated.
Apologies if I my response was not speedy.


> Why not having the installation files on the CD? as you mentioned most arab
> world users are on low speed internet connectivity, so its better to provide
> them with most wanted sources such as firefox,thunderbird and openoffice to
> name few

The current CD is already ~ 670 MBs, nearly a full CD, and sources
take up more space than binaries, so I opted to remove them.

In a future version, I would probably write an advanced "about
project" dialog where there would be a direct link to sources...

> Make the Main interface with suggestion tool/menu that the user can click
> what type of softwares he uses most and have its source on the CD and from
> the users contributions we can add the sources to a folder called source for
> example and each person who want to burn the CD can add whatever he thinks
> his community/friends/family uses to include them for them, of course small
> development from your side to check the source directory and if it doesn't
> find the installation file it goes to the internet and download it

Very good idea. I will see how I can incorporate it into next version.

> i downloaded and tried to install any software for test and got an error[1]
> this error shows for all not only firefox

That error can be easiy fixed. Keep in mind that the test that I gave
does not contain the programs for obvious reasons (space), the final
iso will have the packages.

> could possible ad Daifallah's Camel server[2] which is personal web server
> people can run , would be nice addon made by arabic person

I will certainly investigate this software in the next version. Adding
software made by arab users is top priority.

> Having centralized web page for companies/shops who want to start selling
> this to list them in small directory for each country[3] something similar
> to theopencd.org

Now this is the golden idea. I think it needs implementation for this
version. Later in the day I will send you an email with details and
more ideas on this front, so please hang on.

> thats my thoughts for now and the moment the error get fixed i'll burn it
> and have it ready for people in kuwait whom want a copy can visit our
> office[4] and buy one[5]

Your enthusiasm is very encouraging. I'll give you a link as soon as I
get everything working together and upload it somewhere.

I really appreciate your interest, I hope something fruitful will come
out of this.

Djihed