I think a new good website can help in getting more people to pay attention to the projects, especially when we could put some tutorial videos for beginners, which could encourage people to contribute. I've a free web space and I built some websites using Drupal (a CMS that make it easy to edit, add and modify contents with almost zero HTML knowledge). I can start making the website and take suggestions till you approve it and then we can refer people to the new one (redirect the domain name).
Salam Yaser > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:13:10 +0300 > Von: Majid AL-Dharrab <[email protected]> > An: Documentation and Translation <[email protected]> > Betreff: Re: [doc] Fw: [general] GNOME translations and more > > I don't think changing the website interface is a priority > right now. It might need some attention, but a complete change of the > system doesn't seem appropriate -for the time being, at least- as long as > it does the job. That can be further discussed separately apart from > GNOME i18n discussion. > > I guess we really need to work more on the techdict to make it a > centralized reference for all Arabeyes members. About translation > priorities, don't you guys think that translating documentation for some > packages is more important than translating new, unpopular applications? > As for IRC meetings, that sounds very important for managing > contributions. The times you mentioned are good, too. Wouldn't be better > to talk about these ideas and start assigning translations in the next > IRC meeting? Looking forward to that. :) > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:38 PM, abed fa > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > ----- Forwarded Message ---- > > From: abed fa <[email protected]> > > To: General Arabization Discussion <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wed, April 20, 2011 8:38:04 PM > > Subject: Re: [general] GNOME translations and more > > > > The translation: > > Should we make a priority list? > > > > The technical terms: > > I think we should search for some technical terms' dictionaries, so > > that we can use them, or at least take suggestions rom them; Shall I do > > that? > > Should we expand our base to include other people in the suggestion of > > terms? Translator associations for example. > > I am waiting for your signal. > > > > The website: > > Can we take a look at it on any free hosting service? This might help > > us get improvement suggestions & bug reports early. > > Do we need assistance improving this website? 'cause I think I might be > > able to get some help if it's needed :) > > > > IRC meatings: > > I think that the idea is so great, and so is the timing! > > > > Anything else? :-) > > > > ------------------------ > > A. Fakhouri > > > > P.S.: Summer is coming :) > > > > > > > > From: Abderrahim Kitouni <[email protected]> > > To: General Arabization Discussion <[email protected]> > > Sent: Mon, April 18, 2011 11:44:00 PM > > Subject: [general] GNOME translations and more > > > > Salam, > > > > A few weeks ago, Khaled Hosny asked [1] that someone else takes care of > > coordinating GNOME translations. And I'm going to be that someone [2]. > > > > Currently, we are at 82%, which is not bad considering that most > > applications are above 95% and only a few applications are seriously > > lacking (to anyone wishing to help, these are: > > network-manager-applet, > > gnome-packagekit, gnome-disk-utility, gcalctool, and for the brave > > evolution). > > > > Also, the development tools are quite lacking (with anjuta at 57% and > > glade at 56%). These shouldn't be given very high priority, but there > > are already some translations by Muhammed Nour ready for review. Any > > volunteers? The problem here is that we haven't much discussed > > development related terms, let's try to bring more activity to the > > techdict. > > > > Another thing that I want to discuss is the website, we should probably > > get a website that doesn't look it came from the previous century (I'm > > not asking for a highly interactive site, but something that would be > > translatable and nice looking). Last time this was discussed, the idea > > was to use Drupal, but not much work has been done. I think the problem > > (not only for this but all over Arabeyes) is that there wasn't really > > a > > leader. It isn't easy to be a leader, so I'm not blaming anyone, but > > with some dedication from a few people we can probably get something > > done. FWIW, I've made (with some help by Sohaib Afifi) a little > > prototype for a website in Python/Django based on a design by Youssef > > Chahibi. (I'll try to publish it somewhere) > > > > And last but not least, I'd like to organize something like a monthly > > meeting on IRC, in order to keep people motivated. A recent thread on > > the doc list [3] (mainly the 2 last messages in the thread) shows that > > there is interest in making things a bit more active, and I'd like to > > help in this. > > > > So what's the best time for you? I'm leaning towards something like > > Thursday/Friday/Saturday at 16:00 UTC, as that would be week-end > > evening > > for most, but I'm open to proposals. What do you think? > > > > I hope this wasn't too long, and thanks for reading along. Now, I'd > > like > > to know your ideas/opinions. > > > > > > Regards, > > Abderrahim > > > > > > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg07029.html > > [2] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2011-April/msg00168.html > > [3] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg07050.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Doc mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc > > > > -- GMX DSL Doppel-Flat ab 19,99 Euro/mtl.! Jetzt mit gratis Handy-Flat! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl
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