Plans and tasks for ArabicOpenCD

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

Salam,

These are some of the ideas and tasks for the ArabicOpenCD, for those
interested, please have a look and see what you can do. There many
different ways in which you can contribute, whether you're a designer,
developer, document writer, website maintainer, marketing person
etc... .

These tasks will be available through the wiki:
http://wiki.arabeyes.org/ArabicOpenCD
So please check there for info in the future. If you require Wiki
access, please let me know.

For now, development files are available at:
The CD: (14 MB): http://files.djihed.com/arabicopencd-0.1dev.tar.gz
The website: http://files.djihed.com/arabicopencdweb.tar.gz

Please download and see how you can play with them



ArabicOpenCD:

* New Logo, Icons and images?
* Include Arabic software.. suggestions?
* Possibly more than one screenshot for each application.
* Link to source and Arabic efforts.
* translate this app/contribute to this app link
* Better files mechanism, instead of pop up a folder, make it pop up a
window with links to the actual files, with a description of each
file.
* Different versions of the CD: small, medium, big, huge. Or just two versions:
Big, small, with the small version of under
* Flavored OpenCD: for education, for Internet, for development, etc...
* New Interface? Highly possible, what I would like is a way to
automate the interface, based on what software we include. May be get
a new Interface
engine all together.
For your info: The current interface runs a browser based on Gecko
(the engine for Mozilla) called K-meleon (included in bin). The
interface is just a "site" offline, displayed in the browser. Other
possible techniques?

Website:

* A better introduction with motivation.
* More screenshots, especially of Win 2000.
* Screenshots of programs, especially those in Arabic, in use.
* Link to help messages about how to download (how to use md5sum etc)
* Introduction to every program, a link to the source, and a link to
Arabic efforts.
* More extensive help messages about:
   ** CD burning
   ** md5sum checking
   ** download managers
   ** How to start the program
* DB back end for users form and automatic re displaying of those who signed.
* Design: any suggestions?


Marketing and PR
* Contact PC shops, Magazines, Forums..
* Design banner ads.
* Contact developers/blogs/websites about including the ads.
* etc...

If you have any more, please discuss in the mailing list
(developer at arabeyes dot org) (or email privately for instructions).

For reference, here are the original announcements:
http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/developer/2006/October/msg00000.html
http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/general/2006/October/msg00028.html

Djihed