Re: Skolelinux (educational distro)

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian dot org> wrote:
> Petter probably doesn't have write right to the list, so forwarding.

Posting to the list even if you are not subscribed will simply hold
your email for inspection (due to spam, etc) - so all legit mail
will go through just give it a day or two.  Anything destined to
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forward.

> ----- Forwarded message from Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry dot com>:
> [Christian Perrier]
> > However, adding Arabic support to Skolelinux may be tricky currently
> > as, for stability reasons, the distribution is based on Debian "woody"
> > which probably lacks a lot of stuff for properly supporting BiDi.
> 
> Yes.  Adding BiDi support in Woody is out of scope.  Too much to do,
> too little gain.  It is better to spend the effort on Sarge and Sid.

Fair enough, then we need to look forward and not back.
 
> You are right.  We are now doing two development tracks.  One doing
> minor bugfixes and improvements to the stable release, and one
> improving and major fixes for the next major release based on Sarge.
> Nothing would please me more then getting Arabic support into
> Debian-Edu/Skolelinux, but it would have to go into the Sarge based
> version.  The contact point for the project is
> debian-edu at lists dot debian dot org dot   Please post there if you
> are interested in helping out.

I continue to think that for us to really contribute beyond mere
translations I still think there will be a need to culturally
bias the applications for the intended audience and kids (for
instance for such things are word-associations, kiddie fables/songs,
etc).  In order to do that we really need to use the distro to
get more familiar with it and the required changes/alternations.

Regards,

 - Nadim


	
		
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