Re: some thoughts

[Muhammad Alkarouri <malkarouri at yahoo dot co dot uk>]

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 10:18, Arafat Medini wrote:

> Everything is worth doing I suppose.
> It would be very interesting to know how much is left for the
> arabic language in the arabic linux businesses, it would be
> also interesting to know about the opinion of the customers
> of those businesses.

btw, arabic businesses still need arabic support. it is a major obstacle
in places where I used to support. In fact, it makes linux almost out of
the picture.

> I am not so excited abut universities but I will support everything that
> comes out.

well, we agreed that everything is worth doing, I suppose?

> Yep we MUST do a bounty system a la gnome, this is a MUST.
> Other things would include, some gifts like we paing a one year
> subscription to a mag. 
> Or the ppl from abroad sending some gifts to the hackers, for eg.
> one wants german things I am sure I can send him something!
I am thinking of a Mercedes Benz, for now:)
> This sounds silly BUT it is something.

It is something, and it is _not_ silly. +1.

> > News will be coming forth soon ISA about the SUPER-LUG idea (among
> > other things) that is finally cementing itself.  So, at a minimum,
> > we should expect better collaboration between the various entities
> > (or so we hope).
> 
> Super LUG, yesterday I left with a very mixed taste, no western arabic LUGs?

huh?

please, if there is an interesting discussion, and cannot be done in a
mailing list (needs actual chat or something), say something in the
wiki.
anybody knows for sure if I am part of a lug or not, for example?

> Shedule IS one of the best methods to get things working I am forcing myself
> to a shedule.

Everybody knows that. This is enforcible is another matter.

> Arabeyes history is a history of ppl coming and going, from november
> 2001 till today this core problem persists,we did some work but the
> reality is that arabeyes suffors from this big problem from its start,
> it is a CORE arabeyes problem. Making things tighter, more professional
> will help the project a lot (aka QAC).

For a job, why don't you start assuring the Q of the QAC?

> 
> Arafat
> 

Muhammad Alkarouri