Re: Offer of services

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org>]

On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 13:13, Armelle Nedelec wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I'm French, living in Syria and saw some of you in the Open Source 
> workshop in Syria last month.
> I'm working on PHP application and try to convince people to use arabic 
> (what the use of making web site that nobody will be able to read).
> 
> [..]
>
> Unfortunatly, my arabic is not so good as to be able to help for 
> translation.
> the other problem is that, living in Syria there's some things I cannot 
> do (CVS is one of them). But If I can help for making web site in arabic 
> (if you write the content), give information about the last patches of 
> products, scripting,...
> 
> So hoping to be able to help.


Salam,

I think with your kind of experience, we can really use your help with
our Arabeyes.org site. We have been wanting to add Arabic support on our
site for a very long time now and progress being made at this has been
anything but fast.

It will involve hacking at the PHP code, adding gettext support, etc.
Aside from that, there are a few other things we would like to
add/enhance in the website.

The 'admin' list [1] is where discussions regarding this issue take
place. 

As far as CVS access from Syria is concerned, I suppose you can try
things such as GNU httptunnel [2] or apply the CVS http tunnel patch I
have found here [3]. If that doesn't work for you, you may be able to
liaise with the folks on the 'admin' list while grabbing tarballs of cvs
snapshots from the Arabeyes viewcvs page [4].


Regards,
Mohammed Elzubeir

[1] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/admin 
[2] http://www.nocrew.org/software/httptunnel.html
[3]
http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/archive/att-5862/01-cvs-http-tunneling.patch
[4] http://cvs.arabeyes.org/viewcvs/www/www.tar.gz?tarball=1