Is there more interesting about Arabeyes ( Goals, creation, issues, support, ... ) This may help , please send me this before Monday ØÙ ØØØ ØÙÙÙ. I can't contact them in the week-end, I am a little busy so please excuse me.
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:04:08 -0800 (PST), Nadim Shaikli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Doc mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc > _______________________________________________ Doc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc
