Re: A newer logo

[Fadi Mansour <redeemer at scs-net dot org>]

Hi Bassem,

My name (as you can see) is Fadi, I live in Syria, I'm a control engineer, but
have interests in computer technology in general, I have been fiddling with
Linux for about four years, but only during the last year did I truly use it as
my desktop computer (at home), and tried to promote it's use at work (but sadly
this wasn't a success, because there was too much learning for the people
envolved all on their own). I don't have much experience developing large
applications, not to mention Arabic. But I do have some good range of
programming knowledge (I mainly use Pascal/Delphi, I know C and C++ but didn't
use them for development, my real passion is scripting, I like to program
utilities that help me do some data-extraction and reporting, so I'm an average
perl user, and some other bits and pieces).

As you can see I'm mainly self-taught but I try to get a little bit of the
academic side.

I hope this was a enlightening.


On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:54:46AM -0400, Bassem Medawar wrote:
> Sorry to barge in before introducing myself.. :-)
> 
> How about a logo *theme*, not just for Arabeyes but all the other Arabic 
> computing projects promoted or adopted by Arabeyes, present and future?  It 
> would be like the traditional open source animal theme.  It would promote 
> Arabic cultural themes.  A logo can be symbolic of what the particular 
> project does or purely sentimental reasons.  Of course to render a good 
> logo requires some artistic skills which we programmers tend to be 
> challenged about.  (Time to hookup with a digital artist brethren :-)
> 
> I like the current Arabeyes "logo" on the front page but it would be best 
> if it were not gender specific as to not unwittingly alienate anybody.  A 
> bouncy, smiling baby in diapers with shining eyes could symbolize the 
> nascent character of Arabeyes and Arabization with an eye, pardon the pun, 
> towards a bright future. :-)
> 
> Short intro:
> 
> I have been interested in Arabic computing for nearly a decade.  Originally 
> my interested was in being able to exchange messages on Usenet with Arabic 
> script.  With a friend sharing my interests, we started a mailing list 
> called Reader (as in Usenet/email reader) to exchange ideas how to 
> accomplish this.  Reader remained active until the mid 90's and promoted 
> the use of Arabic script on the Internet.  In the second half of the 
> nineties I got too busy to develop my Arabic computing interests.  Recently 
> though I picked up my where I left off and helped create and moderate 
> comp.software.arabic.
> 
> My contributions to Arabic computing has been mostly organizational and as 
> a cheer leader.  Most recently, I've been working to re-launch an 
> overhauled/updated Arabic Computing FAQ that was (sadly) abandoned in the 
> early nineties.  I'll post more about it later.
> 
> In real life, I do application development and application maintenance work 
> in a Unix environment.  I live in the New York metro area.
> 
> May I ask what's the demographics (or I should say geographics) of the 
> Arabyes general list  membership?  Maybe a get-together or local chapters 
> can ignite expanded interest in the topic of open source Arabization.
> 
> bassem
> 
> PS note to the maintainer, can [Arabeyes] be prefixed to the mailman 
> message header to make it easy to visually sort out Arabeyes mail from 
> other mail?  Thanks.
> 
> 
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Fadi Mansour
redeemer at scs-net dot org