On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:11, Muhammad Alkarouri wrote: > Salam, > As usual, I get to voice my opinion. > > - point 1.1 > Funny, as if the few individuals are possibly 'not known'. If I were in > your shoes, I would thank the few who highlight needs you are approving > of. Thanks for that tone anyway, we will probably remain in Arabeyes' > history this way. > I simply mean that though they are a few (relative to the size of project), they still highlight the defeciency. I will not get into this debate. > - point 1.1.1 > +1. This is what we needed from the start. > > - point 3.1 > Yes, the umbrella strategy should be reconsidered, in the way you are > mentioning (more or less). > One of the main problems that we had is that Arabeyes wanted to be all > things to all people. It encourages volunteerism. It encourages > centralized work in Arabization of *ix. The resulting display of > conflict between these two points is the mess we had in the partnership > policy. Because some may want to work in Arabization of *ix without > voluntary work, or some may like to do volunteer work in *ix which is > not Arabic related. Both these groups cannot coordinate with Arabeyes in > the status quo. > And that was absolutely needed. It is not a mess. It is a situation where when Arabeyes appeared, volunteerism in our part of the world simply was not 'fashionable' like it is starting to become today. > As side points: > - Now that SAIS is becoming more visible, I am certainly going to put > more effort into it. I am not sure if the "community" is interested to > say anything though. The same thing could have been said about core policies ;) The point is, you will get 2-3 members of the community, who will pop up at some point and give in some input -- we'll leave the door open. > - [OT] Seems still people are not happy with fedora translation, though > using different tactics in discussions. Probably Alan Cox is the most > well known of them (for the Welsh language). Just thought I mention it. > No comment. Regards -- ------------------------------------------------------- | Mohammed Elzubeir | Visit us at: | | | http://www.arabeyes.org/ | | Arabeyes Project | Homepage: | | Unix the 'right' way | http://elzubeir.fakkir.net/ | -------------------------------------------------------
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