Salam, Your proposal has a number of good points. Here is my own personal take on it. This is based on my personal vision of what OAO is and what is its purpose in life.
The idea to include a section for corporations/companies hoping to migrate to OSS is a good one. However it seems to me to be beyond the scope of what OAO was intended to be, a community portal. But there is definitely a need for such a section in a separate sister project. The job market section however, is in line with the vision of OAO, so I'm all for that. The Arabization & Arabization Assistance sections would overlap with the core function of Arabeyes.org. Fragmentation of Arabization efforts across multiple communities would be very bad. Instead we should gear OAO towards bolstering Arabization efforts here at Arabeyes, instead of letting OAO host projects on its own and competing with Arabeyes for those most valuable of resources: the contributor's time & attention. Having said all of that, let me reiterate that these are details and we should wait for progressive elaboration. The picture of what we need to do will become clearer as we get closer to it. At the moment I am personally reluctant to discuss what the structure of OAO should look like beyond the very basics. When a maintainer is found that person might have his/her own ideas and it would be presumptuous on our part to say: "We already decided on what needs to be done. Now you go make it happen." I hope no one thinks I am saying "we should not be coming up with ideas" :-). What I am saying is there is no one at the moment who can implement the ideas. So lets find a maintainer first and then direct our collective brainstorming efforts towards that person and let him/her decide how to proceed. Regards, Abdulaziz _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
