Re: QaMoose Dictionary released!

[YChaddad at maktoob dot com (Yasser Chaddad)]

It's a great pleasure to know that a very essential project such as QuaMoose is
being created in order to help the non specialists in computer sciences give a
hand in arabizing Linux. Thanks to Mohamed Sameer, Nadim and all the Arabeyes
team.

I would like to take this opportunity to ask you to put my name on the
translators' list. I already downloaded and istalled WinCVS and TextPad. I
downloaded all the .po and .pot files to be translated, and I have two questions:

1- Is it up to me to decide upon which file to translate, or is there a
coordination to prioritize the work?

2- Should I make the translation in TextPad which doesn't support Arabic
effectively (writing from left to right), or can I do it in WordPad?

Now I have a last question about Qamoose, is it OK to add to it the relevant
terms used by Microsoft in its Arabic glossaries that can be found at the
following address: 

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/msdn/newup/glossary/

I would be glad to receive your response to my questions and my request to
help in the translation effort, knowing, however, that I might be a little bit too
slow in delivering any work assigned to me and that I will start my work with you
as soon as I come back by the end of next week from a short vacation.

Regards to all the team!

Yasser Chaddad

----- Original Message -----
Subject: QaMoose Dictionary released!
Sent: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 20:55:21 -0500
From: Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at fakkir dot net>
To: general at arabeyes dot org
> 
>
>The Arabeyes team is proud to announce its first public package - QaMoose
>version 1.0. QaMoose is an English-Arabic user-defined dictionary to be used
>by Arabeyes' translation/documentation volunteers in order to establish and
>retain consistency in the terms used.
>
>This is once again, a demonstration of how Arabeyes does not rely on the
>commitment of individuals to pursue a project. When QaMoose was first
>proposed, Mohammed Sameer started on the project and then vanished! Nadim took
>over and completed the project. It is the beauty of Open Source.
>
>Check QaMoose on - http://www.arabeyes.org/qamoose/index.cgi
>The QaMoose project page is on - http://www.arabeyes.org/projects/qamoose.php
>
>Please help us celebrate this occasion by submitting your computer terms to   
>QaMoose at your earliest convenience.
>
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