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Re: Project Arabbix II Goals Discussion
- To: "General Arabization Discussion" <general at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: Project Arabbix II Goals Discussion
- From: "Djihed Afifi" <djihedlists at googlemail dot com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 12:30:55 +0100
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Salam Anmar, Guys
Before starting Arabbix v.2.0, I wish to have a set of clear goals for
the project in order for the liveCD to truly benefit people in the Arab
speaking world. Unfortunately, I am unable to determine the goals on my
own since my knowledge of the ME is rather limited.
The ME is:
In places poor, where Internet connection is scarce, or not fast.
First language is not English, so proper Arabic support is a must.
The industry/economy is not highly IT'ed just yet. There is room for
OSS solutions and companies and they know how to play right. The CD
gotta appear professional.
To help focus the discussion I have the following goals that I believe
are necessary:
1. Must be installable on the HD
2. Must have Parted (parition editor for Fat32, NTFS, EXT2, etc)
4. Must have Arabic instructions on how to use the LiveCD and what you
can do with it
5. Must have a light environment (XFCE4 for example) for all those 486s
out there in the ME. In addition to GNOME of course.
Unfortunately, XFCE is not Arabised yet, and IIRC there is no proper
team yet. Ping Nadim and he will let you know.
Gnome's 2.16 complete translation is nearing, and probably be ready
before 2.18 ships.
6. Must have the computer science students in mind. Maybe bundling some
books on linux (Arabic one would be great) or tutorials.
7. Must have OpenOffice 2.0.x for Windows in the CD so non Linux users
can get it
8. Should promote the spirit of volunteering and Arabeyes
9. Should have Arabic based art (regardless of religion)
10.Must be based on Ubuntu (due to ease of setup and the Debian connection)
Or Debian based, for ease of customisation as I guess more people are
familiar with it. Basing it on a fast changing distribution (in itself
and its goals) is risky IMO.
It all comes down to what you are familiar with of course.
Finally, in ubuntu style, we could have a few windows applications
with a suitable interface, I'll help with that as I maintain the
recently released ArabicOpenCD. A few people have even contacted me
wanting to help in its development.
I suggest setting up a workshop with the interested developers to move
this forward and give it an "official" appearance.
Djihed