I hope Munzir will volunteer, this will make things easier to me. By the way, sorry for being late but I have problems with the network here and as I am the one responsible I have to try to solve them asap. As an example I haven't been able to send anything to the developer mailing list for the last couple of days... More coordination will follow, shortly k On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 10:16, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > --- Munzir Taha Obeid <munzirtaha at myrealbox dot com> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Ok then I would be happy to volunteer for Mandrake if Nadim and others > > accept this. I will be happy to follow your steps then though I think the > > task for me would be easier than your case ;) > > Munzir we accept all those that get things done and are driven to bring > forth results and accomplishments :-) > > I have no issue in adding you to be a maintainer on the 'distro' page > as well (and I'll do it soon - make sure to start your log posts with > [Mandrake] or similar), but I would like to stress that we should > really follow the same procedure with regard to the various distros. > Meaning, I highly encourage you to help Mr. Muhammad Alkarouri (the > RedHat Distro contact) to better organize how to proceed first and > foremost (even before looking any deeper into Mandrake). My thinking > is mostly along the lines of coming up with a document and/or a process > by which we can "note" (or 'certify' if you will) that a distro contains > all that is required (or is available) to properly support Arabic. I'm > sure there will be issues which are unique to each distro, but that can > and should be dealt with later once the groundwork has been established > on how we go about quantifying Arabic support in _any_ distro. > > Munzir, can you and Muhammad talk and agree on file formats, content, etc, > etc so that we don't end-up with different formats/listings/content on a > per distro basis ? We should, as noted earlier, end-up with a spreadsheet > (or table) listing each distro's content and support level (akin to > distrowatch.com package listings) with regard to Arabic. The spreadsheet > should ultimately reside on various sites where people would care to see > it (ie. it should become very public) such as, > > http://distrowatch.com/index.php?language=AR > > If done right, this will also put pressure on various distros that care > about Arabs as a potential audience/consumer base to bring forth whatever > recommended level of support you guys agree upon to be a minimum. > > Salam. > > - Nadim > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at arabeyes dot org > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general -- Muhammad Abdulmuneim Alkarouri Teaching Assistant Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Architecture University of Khartoum Khartoum, Sudan
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