Re: Lebanese LUG meeting breakdown

[Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj <alarfaj0 at yahoo dot com>]

--- Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> --- Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj <alarfaj0 at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> > I attended the Lebanese LUG meeting today, and I
> must
> > say I was quite impressed. I saw a group of people
> > each of whom had a rainbow of skills. They also
> seem
> > to be uber-efficient and _extremely_ organized.
> > Attendance was also quite robust (I counted 21
> heads).
> 
> Great, we need to get some of those eager beavers to
> help us out :-)

This is probably going to be more of a "you scratch my
back, I'll scratch yours" situation. But there is
definitely potential for some serious developers in
there, I wouldn't count on translators though.
 
[...]

> I hope you also stressed to them that the
> translation effort(s) are
> but a "part" or arabeyes and is not its sole main
> focus (I'm saying
> this knowing full-well that you did, but its a
> mental reminder :-)
> Development, documentation, HOWTOs, etc, etc might
> need a plug.

I certainly did :-), and many of them already knew
about Arabeyes. Curiously enough one of them asked
me:"Arabeyes? You mean Nadim Shaikli's project?" ;-)
 
[...]

> Here here - we've asked and needed this for a long
> time.  Part of
> Arabbix's mission was to bring that forth (believe
> it or not Arabbix's
> first/main goal was to bring about a collective
> knowledge to dispense
> amongst ourselves and those that cared first and
> foremost and then
> possibly bring about a Arabic distro :-)

Good. You might have noticed there has been a
proliferation in new Arabic distros. Its a good thing
but we hope that won't lead to a big mess of dozens of
useless distros and just lots of inconsistency and
confusion for the user. We have to pool these efforts
together or at least get them to model their efforts
after our own. What happened to your vision of a
unified Arabic LUG?

[...]

> BTW: you might want to tell the .lb LUG to look into
> fvwm (fvwm.org)
>      for something that in fact support Arabic and
> is very lightweight
>      in lieu/addition to Enlightenment (which
> doesn't do Arabic AFAIK).

They seemed adamant about Enlightenment and I guess
the decision was made weeks ago. I don't think they
want enlightenment to "do" Arabic. They just want to
make sure that if you type "setxkbmap ar" then you
will be able to type in Arabic, and also to run GNOME
and KDE apps in Arabic if possible (I don't know how
thats done) so they need to know what issues to look
out for, their choice I guess :)

Abdulaziz,


	
		
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