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Re: Mandrake club membership



On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 13:22, Munzir Taha Obeid wrote:
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> I am  not sure what is the procedure we have followed to push Arabic software 
> in Mandrake distro but I am thinking seriously to buy a mandrake club 

While joining the mandrake club and voting is certainly a way to support
arabization, it is not that scalable as I don't there are many of us who
would buy a membership for that.
A better solution, IMHO, is to coordinate with the arabic team for
internationalization in mandrake, I hope they will push things better,
and any testing/developing can be helped by arabeyes members.
A page explaining the situation with the Mandrake distro should be a
welcome addition to the distro project in arabeyes. Nadim was already
asking if there are people who would volunteer for other distros.

> membership today and vote for our Arabic software and fonts. I hope it's not 
> too late because the freezing, I think, will be in less than two weeks.
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I have a similar problem with red hat almost feature freezing (they
should have stopped but they are waiting for gnome 2.4).
> I hope in the meantime you can make package katoob, KACST fonts, duali, ... on 
> a final release.
Even if the packages did not catch the freeze date, they can be packaged
for the distro and put in a single repository. For mandrake, I believe
you can make a single http repository and add it to urpmi for these
packages. At least I was having such a thought for redhat (making a apt
or yum repository). Think of it..
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Muhammad Abdulmuneim Alkarouri
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Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
University of Khartoum
Khartoum, Sudan

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