Re: attending guadec 4 ?

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de> wrote:
> This is my first proposal about attending GUADEC 4 (GNOME
> Users and Developers European Conference) take a look at:
> 
> http://guadec.gnome.org to understand the fun.
> 
> I want to represent Arabeyes with some slides about "problems of
> transalting from English to other languages", explaining the current
> situation of translation using the example of the Arabic language as
> being a very difficult and hard language to translate to.
> 
> So what do you think? Will be any support? Any help?

I'm all for it as I'm sure others are (or will be ;-)  We have a
number of slides on Arabeyes' "about" page (make sure to take
a look there) and I also know that Mr. Eluzbeir is holding the
latest (and greatest) presentation so far of our mandates, work
and status (from Gitex Dubai).  But I do think that what you
will be presenting will be different (as its a different crowd
and a different focus)

> I want to discuss this also with the big members as I'll speak
> in the name of Arabeyes in the conference!

Arafat, do please mail us an outline of what you want to have in
terms of a presentation.  The best way to do this is to break it
down into slides and some content to convey the ideas (make sure
you know what you are asking and requesting and make it plenty
clear).  For instance,

Slide-1
-------
Title: What is Arabeyes
+ Arabeyes is an Arabic Open Source project
  - Established in 2001
  - Twelve active projects
  - blah blah
+ Arabeyes' mandates
  - blah blah

Slide-2
-------
Title: Arabeyes & Gnome
+ Status
  - blah blah
+ Missing Requirements
  - blah blah

Slide-3
-------
Title: Who you can help
+ Add missing functionality

or something similar.  Once we have an outline, the presentation
will be very easy to create and flush-out, but this is critical
for us to proceed.  In terms of you presenting Arabeyes, I have
no problem with it given the data noted above is gathered, created
and inspected well ahead of the required time.  We better be
prepared, competent and professional or simply not present.

Salam.

 - Nadim


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