Re: free linux arabic book

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

Mr. Rahal had forwarded this to a few of us and I thought it was of
such value that I'd like to share it with the entire community.  The
email has been edited slightly as permission was not sought (nor
given) to go public with this - hope it's OK.

> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:50:06 GMT
>
> Salam,
>
> I just write a book in arabic for linux you can see it on
>
>   http://www.koolpages.com/jornix/arprint (thebook)
>   http://www.koolpages.com/jornix/        (thesite)
>
> please advice me what license should I use (is FDL good?)

Moayyad, this is wonderful work !!!  Keep it up, this is very
much needed and is sought after in order to educate the masses
and raise awareness.  I'm sure you will get license info from
others on the list that know that kinda of thing better than I.

> I want to make it free and open so many people can help me
> but there are somethings to know,
> 1) it's a free host, so can arabeyes host it (the book) for me
> 2) I can't use CVS, so how can update it (send it to arabeyes
>    by email for exmaple)
> 3) how other people can help (may we made it in CVS and I'm the
>    only poor one without CVS)

Once your account issues are settled you should be able to upload
it to CVS and make whatever changes you like to do.  Do please
settle on the license and possibly look into porting the document
(or book) into an sgml format.  Here is a template that we often
refer people to,

  http://cvs.arabeyes.org/viewcvs/doc/template.sgml

I'm hoping to have your book be reflected on Arabeyes' Resources or
Documentations pages.  Mr. Elzubeir, any thoughts ?

> About my arabeyes login name, I received email about my arabeyes
> registration telling me to loggin and ... but I don't yet have
> a login name, how can I over take this?

That info should have been noted to ya while you were registering.
In any regard, if you are ever on IRC, I (or others online) could
help you in real-time, otherwise do please send mail to 'contact'
with your info and it will be taken care of promptly.

> Moayyad Al-Sadi

You are highly encouraged to subscribe to the mailing-lists, it's
Arabeyes' cornerstone and sorry for the delay in getting back to
you.

Salam.

 - Nadim


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