ويكي عربآيز - مساهمات المستخدم [ar]

قالب:تقديم التعريب

2007-09-17T09:56:14Z

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شارك في تعريب وترجمة البرامج الحرة مفتوحة المصدر، هناك مشاريع تعريب عديدة على عرب‌آيز، نهدف لتعريب معظم الواجهات و البرامج الحرّة.

* [[جنوم]]
* [[كيدي]]
* [[موزيلا]]
* [[المكتب المفتوح]]
* [[إكسفس]]
* [[آبي وورد]]
* [[مستندات قانونية]]
* [[ديبيان]]

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2007-04-08T23:37:31Z

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Portal:i18n

2006-11-30T01:15:09Z

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This page will hold information concerning i18n efforts at Arabeyes.

* [[Translation Guidelines]]
* [[Translation help]]

==Translation Projects==
* [[Debian]]
* [[Gnome]]
* [[Xfce]]
* [[KDE]]
* [[Mozilla]]
* [[OpenOffice]]
* [[Technical Dictionary]]
* [[Qamoose]]

==Essential Information==
* [[New Translators]]
* [[Plural Forms]]
* [[Lexicons]]
* [[Ligatures in keyboard layout]]
* [[Arabic Translation Resources]]: Please report to this page if you have one of these texts. They are important to carry on translation work.
* [[Arabic Translation Standards]]
* [[Quality assurance]]
* [[Discussed Words]]
* [[Introduced Abbreviations]]
* [[Links to Translation Resources]]

==Links==
[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Arabic OLPC Wiki Arabic page]

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ويكي عربآيز:About

2006-09-30T14:15:35Z

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Arabeyes is a Meta project that is aimed at fully supporting the Arabic language in the Unix/Linux environment. It is designed to be a central location to standardize the Arabization process. Arabeyes relies on voluntary contributions by computer professionals and enthusiasts all over the world.

Arabic Translation Standards

2006-09-30T14:09:04Z

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هذه مسودة لمعايير الترجمة في عرب آيز. نهدف من وضع هذه المعايير جعل الترجمة في مشاريع عرب آيز متناسقة ورفع مستوى الجودة لهذه الترجمات، لا تترد في إضافة اقتراحك أو مناقشة أي افتراح آخر.

==توحيد المصطلحات==
يجب أن تستخدم كل مشاريع الترجمة قاموس المصطلحات الموحد الخاص بعرب آيز - بعد انتهاء المرحلة اﻷولى منه -، أحد المشاكل التي تعاني منها الترجمة الحالية التخبط الشديد في استخدام المصطلحات بحيث قد تجد أكثر من ترجمة لنفس المصطلح داخل الملف الواحد وليس فقط بين مشاريع مختلفة

==المصدر أم اﻷمر==
حاليا تستخدم الترجمة في عرب آيز صيغة اﻹسم - المصدر - لترجمة اﻷفعال اﻹنجليزية، لكن - كما يبدوا من المناقشة الحالية - فإن عدد من يفضل استخدام اﻷمر يزيد عن من يفضل المصدرز يجب أن نتفق على صيغة موحدة لنستخدمها.

==الترجمات الحالية==
بعد الوصول بهذه المعايير إلى صورة ناضجة تصلح للتطبيق، سيكون علينا مراجعة الترجمات الحالية و تعديلها - إن لزم اﻷمر بحيث تتفق مع هذه المعايير.

==الترجمات الجديدة==
يتعين على كل المترجمين اﻹلتزام بهذه المعايير، وبالنسبة للمترجم الجديد فعلى المسئول عن المشروع المعني ارشاده الي هذه المعايير ليتبعها ويتأكد من اتباعه لها قبل أضافة عمله إلى المشروع، بدلا من إضاعة طاقتنا المحدودة في تصليح ترجمات معيدة ومخالفة للمعايير.

OpenPositions

2006-09-25T18:24:47Z

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In order for Arabeyes to function as a project, leaders are needed. Leaders are those who do not require direction and motivation but are rather, the motivating and directing factor for the remainder of the contributors.

The positions listed below not only require a high level of competency in their related fields, but a sense of urgency and responsibility. Taking up one of the following positions requires commitment. Commitment to get the job done and commitment to let others know the status of the job as it gets done.

=== Position: MediaWiki Administrator ===

Requirements:
* Very good knowledge of Mediawiki

Responsibilities:
* Manage user accounts and rights
* Check pages content and improve the overall quality and homogeneity
* Reducing spam or handling it better
* Animate the Wiki

=== Position: Linux System Administrator ===

'''POSITION FILLED'''

Requirements:

* Intimate knowledge of GNU/Debian Linux
* Excellent administrative skills (bugzilla, mail (postfix/imap/ssl), cvs, wiki, etc.)
* Must check/reply to email frequently
* Must be able to write scripts (shell and/or Python/Perl) to automate administrative tasks

Responsibilities:
* Implement solutions required by the Arabeyes project as requested by the Arabeyes Core Team
* Maintain smooth operation of Arabeyes' server and all running services on it
* Update software for features and security
* Document all changes/modifications to ensure transferrability and delgation of responsibilities in the future if necessary.

=== Position: KDE Arabic Localization Coordinator ===

'''POSITION FILLED'''

Requirements:

* Familiarity with the use of CVS (beyond the average use)
* Excellent reading/writing skills in both Arabic and English
* Familiarity with KDE and its many components
* Familiarity with ["Gettext"] tools
* Familiarity with PO file formats and their editors (["KBabel"], etc.)
* Must check/reply to email frequently

Responsibilities:

* Recruit translators and mentor them
* Sync Arabeyes' CVS repository with that of KDE (the mothership)
* Pariticipate and implement decisions taken by the Quality Assurance Committee (QacDescription)

A more detailed description of the responsibilities is listed in the [http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/guide/translator-guide-en/ Translator Guide].

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that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original
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Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software
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Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.

1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
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You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
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a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
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b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
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c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a
notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide
a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under
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License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but
does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on
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and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
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entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.

Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest
your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to
exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or
collective works based on the Program.

In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program
with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of
a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under
the scope of this License.

3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:

a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,

b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,

c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
received the program in object code or executable form with such
an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)

The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source
code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any
associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to
control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a
special exception, the source code distributed need not include
anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary
form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the
operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component
itself accompanies the executable.

If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering
access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent
access to copy the source code from the same place counts as
distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not
compelled to copy the source along with the object code.

4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program
except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt
otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is
void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License.
However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under
this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such
parties remain in full compliance.

5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not
signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or
distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are
prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by
modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the
Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and
all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying
the Program or works based on it.

6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the
Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the
original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to
these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further
restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.
You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to
this License.

7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent
infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues),
conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or
otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not
excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot
distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this
License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you
may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent
license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by
all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then
the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to
refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.

If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under
any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to
apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other
circumstances.

It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any
patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any
such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the
integrity of the free software distribution system, which is
implemented by public license practices. Many people have made
generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed
through that system in reliance on consistent application of that
system; it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is willing
to distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot
impose that choice.

This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to
be a consequence of the rest of this License.

8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in
certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the
original copyright holder who places the Program under this License
may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding
those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among
countries not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates
the limitation as if written in the body of this License.

9. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions
of the General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will
be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to
address new problems or concerns.

Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program
specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any
later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions
either of that version or of any later version published by the Free
Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of
this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software
Foundation.

10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free
programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author
to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free
Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes
make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the two goals
of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and
of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.

NO WARRANTY

11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN
OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES
PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS
TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE
PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING
OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY
YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER
PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS

How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs

If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.

To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.

<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.

If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
when it starts in an interactive mode:

Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.

The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may
be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.

You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:

Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
`Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.

<signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
Ty Coon, President of Vice

This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
Public License instead of this License.
</nowiki>

GNU GPL v2 or later

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GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991

Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

Preamble

The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public
License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This
General Public License applies to most of the Free Software
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using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by
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When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you
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To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid
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These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you
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For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
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you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
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We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and
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Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software
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The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
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GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains
a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed
under the terms of this General Public License. The "Program", below,
refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the Program"
means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law:
that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it,
either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another
language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in
the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you".

Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not
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running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program
is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the
Program (independent of having been made by running the Program).
Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.

1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
along with the Program.

You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.

2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and
distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1
above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:

a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.

b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
parties under the terms of this License.

c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a
notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide
a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under
these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this
License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but
does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on
the Program is not required to print an announcement.)

These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If
identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you
distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based
on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of
this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the
entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.

Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest
your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to
exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or
collective works based on the Program.

In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program
with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of
a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under
the scope of this License.

3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:

a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,

b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,

c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
received the program in object code or executable form with such
an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)

The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source
code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any
associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to
control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a
special exception, the source code distributed need not include
anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary
form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the
operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component
itself accompanies the executable.

If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering
access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent
access to copy the source code from the same place counts as
distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not
compelled to copy the source along with the object code.

4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program
except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt
otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is
void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License.
However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under
this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such
parties remain in full compliance.

5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not
signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or
distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are
prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by
modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the
Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and
all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying
the Program or works based on it.

6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the
Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the
original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to
these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further
restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.
You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to
this License.

7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent
infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues),
conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or
otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not
excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot
distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this
License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you
may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent
license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by
all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then
the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to
refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.

If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under
any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to
apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other
circumstances.

It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any
patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any
such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the
integrity of the free software distribution system, which is
implemented by public license practices. Many people have made
generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed
through that system in reliance on consistent application of that
system; it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is willing
to distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot
impose that choice.

This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to
be a consequence of the rest of this License.

8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in
certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the
original copyright holder who places the Program under this License
may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding
those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among
countries not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates
the limitation as if written in the body of this License.

9. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions
of the General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will
be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to
address new problems or concerns.

Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program
specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any
later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions
either of that version or of any later version published by the Free
Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of
this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software
Foundation.

10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free
programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author
to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free
Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes
make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the two goals
of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and
of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.

NO WARRANTY

11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN
OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES
PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS
TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE
PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING
OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY
YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER
PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS

How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs

If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.

To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.

<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.

If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
when it starts in an interactive mode:

Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.

The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may
be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.

You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:

Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
`Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.

<signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
Ty Coon, President of Vice

This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
Public License instead of this License.

GNU GPL v2 or later

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= Arabeyes Wiki =

----
'''NOTE:''' Due to the random acts of vandalism on this Wiki system, write access is restricted. If you want an account, please ask for one on the [http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc Doc mailing-list].
----

The [http://www.arabeyes.org/ Arabeyes] wiki is a collaborative hypertext environment, with an emphasis on easy access to and modification of information. Together we will build a wealth of information regarding Arabic Linux and Unix support. It is highly recommended to contribute with any and all thoughts and ideas you may have.

Let us build our first Wiki together ;)

* Starting points:
** [[ArabeyesTodo]]: A comprehensive list of Arabeyes' TODO list
** [[OpenPositions]]: Leadership positions available at the Arabeyes project
** [[Special:RecentChanges|RecentChanges]]: see where people are currently working (on this wiki)

* Arabeyes Projects:
** [[Arabbix2 | Arabbix]]

* Interesting stuff:
** "KDEMania": If you are interested in the l10n of KDE for Arabic
** GnoMental: If you are interested in the l10n of GNOME for Arabic

* Important stuff:
** OpenBugs: A big long list of open bugs related to Arabic in different Open Source projects
** QtBugs: A list of bugs in Qt for Arabic

* Agendas and Minutes:
** QacAgenda: Agenda for Quality Assurance Committee meetings
** QacMinutes: Minutes for Quality Assurance Committee meetings

Main Page

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----
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----

The [http://www.arabeyes.org/ Arabeyes] wiki is a collaborative hypertext environment, with an emphasis on easy access to and modification of information. Together we will build a wealth of information regarding Arabic Linux and Unix support. It is highly recommended to contribute with any and all thoughts and ideas you may have.

Let us build our first Wiki together ;)

* Starting points:
** [[ArabeyesTodo]]: A comprehensive list of Arabeyes' TODO list
** [[OpenPositions]]: Leadership positions available at the Arabeyes project
** [[Special:RecentChanges|RecentChanges]]: see where people are currently working (on this wiki)

* Arabeyes Projects:
** [[Arabbix2 | Arabbix]]

* Interesting stuff:
** "KDEMania": If you are interested in the l10n of KDE for Arabic
** GnoMental: If you are interested in the l10n of GNOME for Arabic

* Important stuff:
** OpenBugs: A big long list of open bugs related to Arabic in different Open Source projects
** QtBugs: A list of bugs in Qt for Arabic

* Agendas and Minutes:
** QacAgenda: Agenda for Quality Assurance Committee meetings
** QacMinutes: Minutes for Quality Assurance Committee meetings

OpenPositions

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In order for Arabeyes to function as a project, leaders are needed. Leaders are those who do not require direction and motivation but are rather, the motivating and directing factor for the remainder of the contributors.

The positions listed below not only require a high level of competency in their related fields, but a sense of urgency and responsibility. Taking up one of the following positions requires commitment. Commitment to get the job done and commitment to let others know the status of the job as it gets done.

=== Position: MediaWiki Administrator ===

Requirements:
* Very good knowledge of Mediawiki

Responsibilities:
* Manage user accounts and rights
* Check pages content (and remove spam) and improve the overall quality and homogeneity
* Animate the Wiki

=== Position: Linux System Administrator ===

'''POSITION FILLED'''

Requirements:

* Intimate knowledge of GNU/Debian Linux
* Excellent administrative skills (bugzilla, mail (postfix/imap/ssl), cvs, wiki, etc.)
* Must check/reply to email frequently
* Must be able to write scripts (shell and/or Python/Perl) to automate administrative tasks

Responsibilities:
* Implement solutions required by the Arabeyes project as requested by the Arabeyes Core Team
* Maintain smooth operation of Arabeyes' server and all running services on it
* Update software for features and security
* Document all changes/modifications to ensure transferrability and delgation of responsibilities in the future if necessary.

=== Position: KDE Arabic Localization Coordinator ===

'''POSITION FILLED'''

Requirements:

* Familiarity with the use of CVS (beyond the average use)
* Excellent reading/writing skills in both Arabic and English
* Familiarity with KDE and its many components
* Familiarity with ["Gettext"] tools
* Familiarity with PO file formats and their editors (["KBabel"], etc.)
* Must check/reply to email frequently

Responsibilities:

* Recruit translators and mentor them
* Sync Arabeyes' CVS repository with that of KDE (the mothership)
* Pariticpate and implement decisions taken by the Quality Assurance Committee (QacDescription)

A more detailed description of the responsibilities is listed in the [http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/guide/translator-guide-en/ Translator Guide].

Main Page

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= Arabeyes Wiki =

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'''NOTE:''' Due to the random acts of vandalism on this Wiki system, write access is temporarily disabled until we sort out permission issues. Apologies for any inconvenience.
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The [http://www.arabeyes.org/ Arabeyes] wiki is a collaborative hypertext environment, with an emphasis on easy access to and modification of information. Together we will build a wealth of information regarding Arabic Linux and Unix support. It is highly recommended to contribute with any and all thoughts and ideas you may have.

Let us build our first Wiki together ;)

* Starting points:
** [[ArabeyesTodo]]: A comprehensive list of Arabeyes' TODO list
** [[OpenPositions]]: Leadership positions available at the Arabeyes project
** [[Special:RecentChanges|RecentChanges]]: see where people are currently working (on this wiki)

* Arabeyes Projects:
** [[Arabbix2 | Arabbix]]

* Interesting stuff:
** "KDEMania": If you are interested in the l10n of KDE for Arabic
** GnoMental: If you are interested in the l10n of GNOME for Arabic

* Important stuff:
** OpenBugs: A big long list of open bugs related to Arabic in different Open Source projects
** QtBugs: A list of bugs in Qt for Arabic

* Agendas and Minutes:
** QacAgenda: Agenda for Quality Assurance Committee meetings
** QacMinutes: Minutes for Quality Assurance Committee meetings

مستخدم:Adn

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[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ#User_administration Mediawiki's FAQ]

OpenPositions

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In order for Arabeyes to function as a project, leaders are needed. Leaders are those who do not require direction and motivation but are rather, the motivating and directing factor for the remainder of the contributors.

The positions listed below not only require a high level of competency in their related fields, but a sense of urgency and responsibility. Taking up one of the following positions requires commitment. Commitment to get the job done and commitment to let others know the status of the job as it gets done.

=== Position: Linux System Administrator ===

Requirements:

* Intimate knowledge of GNU/Debian Linux
* Excellent administrative skills (bugzilla, mail (postfix/imap/ssl), cvs, wiki, etc.)
* Must check/reply to email frequently
* Must be able to write scripts (shell and/or Python/Perl) to automate administrative tasks

Responsibilities:
* Implement solutions required by the Arabeyes project as requested by the Arabeyes Core Team
* Maintain smooth operation of Arabeyes' server and all running services on it
* Update software for features and security
* Document all changes/modifications to ensure transferrability and delgation of responsibilities in the future if necessary.

=== Position: KDE Arabic Localization Coordinator ===

'''POSITION FILLED'''

Requirements:

* Familiarity with the use of CVS (beyond the average use)
* Excellent reading/writing skills in both Arabic and English
* Familiarity with KDE and its many components
* Familiarity with ["Gettext"] tools
* Familiarity with PO file formats and their editors (["KBabel"], etc.)
* Must check/reply to email frequently

Responsibilities:

* Recruit translators and mentor them
* Sync Arabeyes' CVS repository with that of KDE (the mothership)
* Pariticpate and implement decisions taken by the Quality Assurance Committee (QacDescription)

A more detailed description of the responsibilities is listed in the [http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/guide/translator-guide-en/ Translator Guide].

ArabeyesTodo

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This a list of projects and TODO's that are global to the Arabeyes Project as a whole. These projects are considered important stepping stones to fulfill the Arabeyes' main goals. Please let us know which areas are of interest to you (to work on) and/or if you have further suggestions that ought to be included.

NOTE: all entries are (or will be) numbered noting priority.

== Arabization Requirements ==

["Arabization Requirements"] tell programmers and writers what they need to know to support Arabic.

== Technical/Code Issues: ==

1. Arabbix
* Need a release
* Need better/more encompassing documentation on process to involve others
* Need more people involved to help the maintainer
* Involved:
* is - MohammedSameer
* Status/Plan:
* Need help on all above items

1. Free Fonts
* Need KACST to include the various changed from MohammedYousif (Quran)
* Need KACST to consider various changes,
* Tashkeels/diacritics deminsions (kacstposter/kacstdecorative/kacst-qr)
* Style setting in 'fonts.cache-1' is wrong (should be Regular/Bold, etc)
* Possibly consider extending coverage to include Farsi/Urdu/gaf
* Need a knowledgeable font designer to review Khotot project
* Involved:
* was - YousefAlHarthi (KACST fonts)
* is - NadimShaikli (khotot fonts)
* is - HussainAlKameesh (can be of assistance)
* Status/Plan:
* Need help on all above items

1. Printing (http://www.cups.org)
* Need to add utf8/bidi/shaping to lp/lpr/enscript for Arabic text printing
* Involved:
* is - AhmadKhalifa
* Status/Plan:
* Need help on all above items

1. Terminal Emulators
* Gnome-terminal: Need to include shaping
* Xterm: Need to include Bidi/shaping (already has utf-8 support)
(www.wholehog.fsnet.co.uk/robert/xterm)
* rxvt: Need to look into adding utf-8/Bidi/shaping support
* PuTTY: Need to add remaining Arabic support
* Mlterm: Solve bidi on the command-line BIG issues - shell related
* Need an overall spec on how bidi/control-characters are to be
handled within a terminal emulator (cursor movement, etc)
* Involved:
* was - KamalDalal (PuTTY)
* was - NadimShaikli (mlterm)
* is - AhmadKhalifa (PuTTY)
* Status/Plan:
* Need help on all above items

1. Terminal Libraries
* Slang : Add Bidi/Shaping to S-Lang library (www.s-lang.org)
* Ncurses: Add Bidi/Shaping to Ncurses library
(www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html)
* Involved:
* NONE
* Status/Plan:
* Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

1. Man pages in Arabic
* 'man' don't seem to work in Arabic, need to investigate what's needed
* Can Arabic man pages be viewed in a broweser?
(http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/doc/2004/May/msg00231.html)
* Also: http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker-i18n/2004-08/msg00116.php
* When viewing manpage is possible in Arabic, we'll need to start translating them.
* Involved:
* NONE
* Status/Plan:
* Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

1. Fribidi library
* Need inclusion of shaping into library
* Invovled:
* NONE
* Status/Plan:
* Project seems to be stalled awaiting Behdad's revival

1. Islamic Applications/Libraries (ITL)
* Need code review and authentication of algorithms
* Need Umm-Alqura algorithm/details
* Complete a simple perl-GUI for 'itools'
* Complete a fancy GUI
* Involved:
* was - AhmadTwaijry (GUI)
* is - NadimShaikli
* is - ThamerMahmoud
* Status/Plan:
* Some outdated GUI screenshots,
* http://www.4-sms.com/u/03/11/baz504-1.png
* http://www.4-sms.com/u/03/11/baz504-2.png
* Need help on all above items

1. Quran Datafiles
* Need an authority to verify data files' content and correctness
* Involved:
* was - AhmadTwaijry (seeking help in .sa)
* is - NadimShaikli
* is - MohammedYousif
* Status/Plan:
* All contacted groups have not responded, NEED HELP

1. Missing Quran characters/Glyphs from Unicode's lists
* Proposal written, but not submitted
* Need an Arabic authority to review our proposal to add new characters
* Need a solution that will work regardless of font technology
* Involved:
* is - MohammedYousif
* is - NadimShaikli
* Status/Plan:
* Need help on all above items

1. Duali (the Arabic spellchecker)
* Need Duali to be ported to C
* Need Duali to be included and embraced by OpenOffice
* Involved:
* is - MohammedElzubeir
* Status/Plan:
* Need help on all above items

1. Emacs
* Need to verify bidi inclusion into emacs' main tree
* The inclusion was supposed to have started, but no one is keeping track
* Involved:
* NONE
* Status/Plan:
* Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

1. Evolution
* Need Arabic support
* Involved:
* was - MohammedElzubeir
* Status/Plan:
* Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

1. AbiWord
* Contact Tomas Frydrych <tomas frydrych - uklinux net>
* Primitive Arabic support exists and currently bidi is done via fribidi
* Read supplemental file for more details
* Involved:
* was - MohammedSameer
* Status/Plan:
* Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

1. BiCon
* Do enough distro's know of the existance of this console tool ?
* Need to push its inclusion for better distro setup support
* Any functionality and/or build issues ?
* Involved:
* was - MohammedElzubeir
* was - SamyAlBahra
* is - MuhammadAlkarouri
* Status/Plan:
* Need help on all above items

1. Wine (http://www.winehq.org)
* Need shaping/Bidi
* Involved:
* NONE
* Status/Plan:
* Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

1. QT bugs/issues
* Need to verify complete Arabic functionality
* Involved:
* is - YoucefRahal
* Status/Plan:
* All known bugs (and suggestions) have been reported to Trolltech
(complete list on https://www.arabeyes.org/QtBugs)
* Where is Trolltech with bugs/suggestions ?

1. Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com)
* Need Arabic support compiled/included (fonts, applications, etc)
* Need 'mlterm' included among others
* Involved:
* NONE
* Status/Plan:
* Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

1. WeirdX (http://www.jcraft.com/weirdx)
* It's a Java X-server - login to linux from any host via browser
* Need to verify that Arabic is visible/usable under weirdx
* Involved:
* NONE
* Status/Plan:
* Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

1. LaTeX2HTML
* Add Arabic language (requires little Perl knowledge)
* Create a 'style' file like one of the packages in latex2html/styles/
* Involved:
* NONE
* Status/Plan:
* Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

1. WinSCP (http://winscp.sf.net)
* Add Arabic support (UTF-8, Bidi)
* Involved:
* NONE
* Status/Plan
* Someone needs to look into its current status and take ownership

== Non-Code & i18n/Translation Issues: ==

1. OpenArabia.org
* Needs to include all other LUGs' news (convince 'em to use RSS)
* Need a list of skilled people who can make this a reality
* Need a proper admin for this portal
* Involved:
* was - AhmadTwaijry
* is - NadimShaikli
* is - AbdulazizAlarfaj
* Status:
* Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

1. Arabic wordlist
* Need a complete list of Arabic words for Arabic-to-English dictionary
* Involved:
* was - AhmadTwaijry
* was - ArafatMohamed
* is - AbdulazizAlarfaj
* Status/Plan:
* Need a mechanism for how these words will be listed (eg. by root?)

1. Arabic translation of Arabeyes.org site
* Need someone to compelete the translation of Arabeyes' site
* Involved:
* was - AhmadTwaijry
* was - ArafatMohamed
* is - AbdulazizAlarfaj
* Status/Plan:
* Plone interface translation complete
* Awaiting deployment of Plone
* Need mysql table changes to hold AR translations for static content
* Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

1. Office-related Apps
* Need DIA localized
* Need Xpdf localized
* What else ?
* Involved:
* NONE
* Status/Plan:
* Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

1. WVware (Word Clone)
* Need Bidi/Shaping
* Involved:
* NONE
* Status/Plan:
* Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

1. Content Management System (CMS) Arabization
* CMS's like phpnuke/postnuke/xoops/etc use CP-1256 and NOT UTF-8
* Need to instruct module owners to NOT use CP-1256 and use UTF-8 instead
- This is very important as more and more people opt to use CMS
- UTF-8 should be the default option at a min
- Current implementations don't even allow one to use UTF-8 Arabic
* Need to stress the importance of UTF-8 esp. for open source projects
* Involved:
* NONE
* Status/Plan:
* Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

1. Mutt
* Is localization possible/needed ?
* Involved:
* NONE
* Status/Plan:
* Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

1. LingoTeach (http://www.lingoteach.org)
* Language teaching program
(Translate lessons, localize application and add vocal recordings)
* Involved:
* NONE
* Status/Plan:
* Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

1. Children Games
* Add Arabic to Ktouch (typing tutor)
* Finish translation and localization of GCompris
* Find a list of viable games to include
* Need programs to teach kids Arabic
* Involved:
* was - IsamBayazidi
* Status/Plan:
* Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)
== Various Issue/Needs: ==

1. Registration as a non-profit organization
* Need to select a country
* Need to get the list of people who can help
* Anything else that is involved
* Involved:
* is - ArafatMedini
* Status/Plan:
* Final choice for a country rested on Germany
* ArafatMedini and several other people in Germany offered to help
* ArafatMedini plans to be seriously involved in this issue
* This item needs a bit of follow-up

1. ACE
* Need another impartial organization to take it over
* OpenArabia.org (OAO) is slated for this task, but we need OAO functional
* Involved:
* NONE
* Status/Plan:
* EgLug emerged as a possible choice
* This item needs a bit of follow-up

1. Shirts
* Need a means to print and distribute T-shirts with Arabeyes' logo
* Involved:
* was - SamyAlBahra (created a nice design)
* Status/Plan:
* Someone needs to look into cost and what is required

1. CD-distribution
* Need a means to print and distribute Arabbix CDs
* Involved:
* NONE
* Status/Plan:
* Someone needs to look into cost and what is required

1. Awareness -- UTF-8
* Find all applications that utilize UTF-8 to add bidi/shaping
* Involved:
* NONE
* Status/Plan:
* Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

1. Awareness -- Window Managers
* Instruct all window managers about the inclusion of bidi/shaping
* Compile list of all window managers, classify based on lib dependency
* Systematically query Qt and Gtk based ones initially

1. Awareness -- Documentation
* Generate a list of documents/resources (FAQ/links)
(a means to educate people on various Arabic issues - general)
* Generate a step-by-step document on translation (kbabel, etc)
* Come up with means to create more technically heavy-weight people
* Involved:
* is - AbdulazizAlarfaj (translation document)
* Status/Plan:
* List of documents available
* Translation document available, but needs overhaul

1. People
* Find and retain a lawyer
* Find and retain 2-3 artists
* Find and retain a Public-Relations (PR) coordinator
* Find and retain "chimers" (peer pressure people "yeah, want/include it")
* Involved:
* NONE
* Status/Plan:
* Currently have 2 artists. No solid contribution as of yet