--- Chahibi Youssef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you tell me what I have to say to Arabization.org.ma I'll contact > them incha'allah by phone.
The four point below are a good start. You can also tell them about Arabeyes and the work that has been done (did I say 87,000 words in our general dictionary translated along with numerous (don't have a count, but can get one) strings in various projects (gnome, kde, debian, etc)). What needs to be noted is that we are serious about the work and we are doing all of this for __FREE__. They should also note that we don't have any agendas and are here simply due to our love to the Arabic language and its culture, etc. You might want to get more familiar with Arabeyes and its history (3+ years) to really instill our commitment and work ethic to 'em. > > 1. Contact arabization.org.ma and tell them to fix their horrible > > website (and have them move to UTF-8 from CP-1256 while at it :-) > > 2. Contact arabization.org.ma (or ALECSO) to introduce Arabeyes and > > our collective work to them and have them take a look at our > > EN->AR Wordlist [1] > > 3. Contact arabization.org.ma (or ALECSO) to see if they would be > > willing to share their work with us under an open source license. > > Emphasis on common goals, long-term benefits, etc, etc. > > 4. Talk in more detail on more extensive collaboration. > > > > > > [1] http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Wordlist You might also want to tell them that we have more grand plans (like an Arabic->English dictionary, automatic sentence/paragraph translators, etc) and we are looking for assistance and since they are the ultimate authority we most certainly would like to have better communication and more involvement. Our goals, from what I saw, seem to be related and so it would be best to work together. We also have a number of Unicode.org issues with which we would like their opinion and involvement on. Here are some sample pleas for help [2][3]. [2] http://arabeyes.org/~nadim/unicode/unicode_help_en.pdf [3] http://arabeyes.org/~nadim/unicode/unicode_help_ar.pdf Hope that helps and keep us all posted on what happens (this might take some time, so don't rush and don't be abrasive or abusive - try to set a face-to-face meeting with them to convey all these ideas/points). Salam. - Nadim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
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