On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:05:32AM +0000, Djihed Afifi wrote: > Here is the stuff that I compiled: > > > Arabic support to groff: Investigate ways to add arabic support to > groff, or invesitgate using a different engine all together display man > pages on the terminal. I think Hebrew works: http://home.foolab.org/files/rtlgroff.pdf I can't remember from which mailing list I've got that PDF. It was in my queue if things to check but it was dropped. I think you can check it ? > ITL: ports to most other languages written on top of the current ITL > written in C. A lot of people need ITL ports to most other languages > like PHP, Perl, Java, TCL, Python.Yes I know that they could call the > command line utilities and parse them, but having it natively is better. > e.g in perl: > > use Islamic::ITL; > my @salattimes = &getPrayerTimes($lat, $long, ...) ; > > and similar for other languages. While the list of languages seems long, > this is generally easy to do... Do you think that a php extension is valuable ? I can cook that if needed! > Bug Squashing: > I'm not sure if this can quality as a SoC project. There is a group of > 5/6 showstopper arabic bugs on Gnome and Abiword(1 bug?) that require > some involved work, individually they are probably more than a day's > experienced developer work but are less worthy for a complete SoCP, > however together they can make it. The problem is that no one is willing > to engage them and this is the perfect way of tackling them. Can you please point me to them ? I'd love to check them and see if I can fix any. > Porting website to new CMS: > This is more than a drupal installation, and could very well qualify as > a SoCP (there were a number of similar projects last year), of the top > of my head this requires: > 0-LDAP integration of all services. Do we really need LDAP ? > 3-Proper bidi support What's that ? What's missing exactly ? > 7-Qamoose integration, and possibly inversing the the dict to serve > arabic->english as well. Nice idea :-) -- GNU/Linux registered user #224950 Proud Egyptian GNU/Linux User Group <www.eglug.org> Member. Life powered by Debian, Homepage: www.foolab.org -- Don't send me any attachment in Micro$oft (.DOC, .PPT) format please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Preferable attachments: .PDF, .HTML, .TXT Thanx for adding this text to Your signature
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