Salam, Thursday, 'Education' track, I did a presentation about Bayani. The audience was mostly composed of school teachers, which is very fine. I hope I'll get some feedback. There was a guy from the press who said he will talk about the fact that newcomers to FOSS don't need to be developers in order to help, and that he'll cite Bayani as an example (I made a call for graphical help ;)).
Friday, 'Education' track, I did presentation together with Juan Rafael Fernandez from the Ofset.org group about 'i18n in Education' where I did the same presentation as on Tuesday, but quicker this time. He talked about the next generation of i18n format and software. Namely: XLiff. His speech is at http://speeches.ofset.org/jrfernandez/rmll2005/ Outside the tracks I met: * Mohammed Zaanane, the organizer (one of the organizers?) of the Casablanca Linux Days 2005 (Abdo know him ;)). We discussed a lot about the issues of arabization. He wants to organize a big event in Morocco (or in a Maghreb country) that could also be a meet point for all Arabeyes members ;-) * The developers and conceptors of AbulEdu, a distro and a set of software and server for schools. We discussed the issues of i18n and adaptation of content to multiple communities (GCompris for example). The projects are now developed in tcl (for simplicity) and thus are not well-adapted for i18n. They are thinking about the migration to a toolkit that supports i18n: wxPython is the candidate. We'll keep in touch in order to translate samples and create screenshots that they can rely on while testing. I'll keep you updated (probably on the developer list). * Guillaume Lederer, one of the developers of Claroline.net He interested by completing its arabization (it is partly translated). Claroline is a very interesting e-Learning tool and would probably be useful in the Arab world. He was present yesterday on IRC. Expect a post from him here and/or the 'doc' list. * Linuxconf author, Jacques Gélinas, who also works on a very interesting tool called VServer http://linux-vserver.org/ . May probably be useful for our server. * And many others :) I attended many interesting confs (there were a LOT of interesting talks, on different topics, all going at the same time, so it's quite impossible to be present in everything... There were also many communities boothes): * One about OOo development and how 'easy' it is to join the dev team... I am rather interested in that, if there is enough time that is ;) * One about deployment of Linux in schools of a Brazil state, Parana, and the issues they face to administer the servers online etc (due essentially to the great number of users :) * Many about Edu software, especially by the Ofset.org group. * etc etc etc The meeting ended on Saturday (I left on Friday however). Conclusion: a very important meeting that one has to be present in every year. It is important for us to keep contact and work on the issues for the next year's meeting. -- Youcef R. Rahal
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