Re: Interested in joining

[Youssef Chahibi <chahibi at gmail dot com>]

> Hello everybody,
السلام عليكم
> I am interested in joining the translation effort for arabic linux.
>
> I have previous experience in translating both english to german and german
> to english.
>
> Arabic is my native language(I was born in germany, but i live here since i
> was 7 years old) but i am not very good with the high art of the
> language(meaning i only know the فصحى words that i hear on TV)
>
> I also have some experience in programming and graphics(mostly vectors)
>
> I hope you'll accept me to the team
You are more than welcome. There are many things to work on, and contributors 
are more than needed: KDE, Gnome, Debian, Mozilla, OpenOffice ...
As KDE and Gnome maintainer here is the way to join:
- Read Arabeyes Translation Guide and CVS how to in www.arabeyes.org
- Register to doc at arabeyes dot org (http://lists.arabeyes.org)
- For:
	* Gnome:
	cvs checkout translate/gnome
	Read the ASSIGNED file
	Pick a file or files that is not ASSIGNED in translate/gnome
	Announce in the list that you work on this file
	Translate it
	Send it to me (chahibiعgmail dot com)
	After that ask for a CVS account (as in the CVS guide)

	* KDE
	cvs checkout translate/kde
	Work on extragear-graphics as it is not assigned to anyone, if you want to 
work on another modules ask in the list before
	Announce in the list that you work on this module
	Translate what you can
	Send it to me (chahibiعgmail dot com)
	After that ask for a CVS account (as in the CVS guide)
> PS: If i need to reply to an email that is sent through the mailing list,
> should i also send it to Doc at arabeyes dot org?
Yes
> Regards
> Afief Halumi