Re: Status of Arabic OpenOffice

[Ossama Khayat <okhayat at yahoo dot com>]

Hello,
Actually, our N/L project contact was Mr.
Charles-H.Schulz <southerncross at ifrance.com>, so
maybe you want to try contacting him instead.
Also, you can try to contact <webmaster at
openoffice.org> and see if you get a reply.

Good luck.

Ossama
--- Anmar Oueja <anmar at canada dot com> wrote:
> Hello Ossama:
> 
> Thanks for the update. Unfortunately, Dieter , from
> openoffice l10n team 
> did not send me anything. I bugged him but nothing
> so far. You mentioned 
> a name of a a person I could talk to on IRC. Can you
> send me his email 
> so I can get my approval going ASAP.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Anmar
> 
> Ossama Khayat wrote:
> > TAlzaffin at diwan.dubai.gov.ae wrote:
> > ---------------------------------
> > 
> >>Dear All,
> >>
> >>I would like to know the status of Arabic
> OpenOffice,
> >>what is the progress on it, any time frame,
> etc...?
> > 
> > 
> > Hi. First of all, thanks for your interest.
> > Let us introduce ourselves. We are Arabeyes.org -
> *nix
> > Arabization group. I personally had interest in
> > OpenOffice.org and applied (with the help of Nadim
> - 
> > another member) to be incharge of the Arabic
> Native
> > Lang project.
> > So far, I've only prepared the basic website
> > (ar.openoffice.org) and working on other stuff,
> like
> > tutorials and resources.
> > Another memeber (Anmar) is also waiting the
> approval
> > to take charge of the Localization project (Anmar,
> any
> > progress?).
> > 
> > 
> >>I have been browsing the site
> >>http://native-lang.openoffice.org/
> >>Can you explain what is the difference between
> native
> >>project at http://ar.openoffice.org and the
> project
> >>(l10) bellow?
> > 
> > 
> > Well, the Native Lang project is more of language
> > tools, resources and linguestics. It involves
> > development, programming and building all these
> > resources for users.
> > On the other hand, l10n and i18n contains a
> framework
> > and tools for localization (l10n) and
> > internationalization (i18n). More information
> about
> > these two projects can be found on
> > http://l10n.openoffice.org/.
> > As far as I know, the localization work stopped at
> > version 1.0.3 of OpenOffice.org. I tried
> contacting
> > mr. Al-Nufaily but got no response at all.
> > 
> > 
> >>Localization/Internationalization Project (l10n).
> >>
> >>Localization / Language
> >>        
> >>Leader: Shady Al-Nofaily
> >>Email: nofaily at gmx.net
> >>Status: Looking for volunteers
> >>Arabic
> >>
> >>Is there an dependencies between both? Is the
> >>Arabization of StarOffice is tied to this project?
> > 
> > 
> > There is no dependency between the N/L and l10n
> > projects. But, since OpenOffice.org is built on
> the
> > same sources of StarOffice, the later will surely 
> > benefit and use the same resources available.
> > 
> > 
> >>What can I do as a decision maker to speed up
> >>this project?
> > 
> > 
> > Actually, many things! We lack a lot of people who
> > would help in many areas:
> >   - Helping in development and support of
> Arabic/BiDi
> >     features using Java and/or C++.
> >   - Testing the current features and support.
> >   - Providing feedback, through submitting bug
> reports
> >     (Issues).
> >   - Translators who would be able to dedicate
> time,
> > and
> >     have good translation skills.
> > 
> > 
> >>I would appreciate your reply and thank
> >>you in advance.
> > 
> > 
> > I hope this answers most of your questions and
> hope to
> > further extend the cooperation between us.
> > 
> > 
> >>Best Regards,
> >>
> >>Thani Alzaffin
> > 
> > 
> > Again, thanks for your interest.
> > 
> > kind regards,
> > Ossama M. Khayat
> > 
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