Salam, hmm hmm, well I don't see coherence in you post:
>what >will become of Arabeyes once the Arabization of FOSS is complete? Or is >this a never ending process? >If indeed it is a never-ending process then >one can safely state that Arabeyes has degraded to its initial state of >being a bunch of general ideas and no conrete goals. What do the questions have to do with the answers you gave I don't see a relation btw doing translation for 20 years and Arabeyes being degraded to "its initial state...". >technical expertise is seriously lacking Hmm, sure we are no experts but from my experience for eg. I started and barely could write an arabic word with my PC today I know enough to claim that I am doing concise and precise translations. What I want to say is that you are not born as an expert you become one whether by self-lerning or by learning from others. Sure a mentor program is good still do you want to make every newcomer go through a mentor program? Ok loose every newcomer then by now? Better have a bad translation then no translation, and this brings me to the first point, AS you are speaking about translation efforts where is the new horizon you wanted to show us by questioning the fact that we are only translating software... We still have problems ordering our internals, I think that's why people can't really focus over the big picture. On the other hand efforts like standardization and making Arabeyes a legal entity are right steps in that direction. And also, what do you want Arabeys to be ? Arabeyes is a project which incorporates nearly everything from fonts to software regarding Arabic and FOSS. I personally always thought we are even doing too much! Still we don't have enough money nor people to even make basic things as translate KDE for eg. I want to say, yeah let us even redefine Arabeyes to a food maker but how? If you don't have enough resources. Well I don't care much about fame or prizes, at the end what really matters (in the deb case) is that you have an Arabic installation procedure, if we can participate in any form why not? What the other ppl think of us good or bad does not interest me to be honest. If the product works with 10% or 90% help from us then great Arabic works under FOSS, goal reached, let's move to the next. Arafat
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