All, OLPC is looking for someone to join the OLPC-red hat team to work on Arabic support for Linux. OLPC's philosophy is that all work should be contributed up stream, so any work done by or through OLPC will benefit the whole community.
Following is the job description, if you know of anyone who matches the description and is enthusiastic about open source and arabic (or if the description matches your skills) please refer them to me or Chris Blizzard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Feel free to forward. Job Requirements: o Is fluent in Arabic and English. o Experience with complex font rendering systems and Unicode strongly preferred o Experience with Arabic text input systems preferred o Excellent programming skills in C and C++ required o Experience with Unix or Linux and internationalization on those platforms including recent technology development required o Community development experience a plus. o Experience living in middle eastern cultures a plus. o Willing to live and relocate to the Boston, MA area. Job Description: Your role will be to support the Arabic Language on the One Laptop per Child laptop. This includes making fixes to the various libraries and programs on the system to properly support Arabic text input and rendering as well as other languages that use Arabic script. You will be required to work closely with both representatives from interested countries and with software vendors to make sure that fixes are properly integrated. Additionally, you will be required to support translation efforts and help enable a translation community. In some cases, this means that you will need to make translations yourself but that will not be your primary role. thanks
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