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2009-10-16
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Great idea... another "regional" portal for Maemo Community after MaemoFr.org and MaemoIT.org... 
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IT: Nokia N810 with micro-SDHC 8GB Class 6
and Nokia N900 with micro-SDHC 16GB Class 6
Bluetooth headset: Nokia BH-102 (for Skype calls) and Nokia BH-501 (for music)
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2009-10-16
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Off the top of my head, I saw the thread title and thought "Damned good idea". My experience of traveling in a few Arabic speaking countries leads me to conclude that whatever the US newscasters say, nokia is one of the most popular brands in places like Egypt, and there are just as many techies there as anywhere else.
I speak no arabic, so can't help much. But you have my support.
(Recalls a long techie chat with a shopkeeper in Tunisia comparing mobile phones... the one man there who never tried to sell me anything!)
Off topic, we have athread running about putting a Bible onto an n900. It's would be waaay cool if a translation of the Koran would run on the same software.
I speak no arabic, so can't help much. But you have my support.
(Recalls a long techie chat with a shopkeeper in Tunisia comparing mobile phones... the one man there who never tried to sell me anything!)
Off topic, we have athread running about putting a Bible onto an n900. It's would be waaay cool if a translation of the Koran would run on the same software.
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2009-10-16
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This sounds like an unbelievable amount of work, congrats for your ambition.
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2009-10-16
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Definitely maemo.org needs to think how to address local communities in languages other than English. I just got an email from a similar promoter interested in maemo.org in Russian. We can only expect more cases to come.
So while we help abu9al7 with the Arabic version we should basically help anybody with a same goal in another language. Should we start a maemo.org internationalization thread?
So while we help abu9al7 with the Arabic version we should basically help anybody with a same goal in another language. Should we start a maemo.org internationalization thread?
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2009-10-16
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Amazing idea. I wish you all the luck.
I guess that nokia will translate maemo 5 to Arabic. If they plan to make N900 its high end phone they need to create much more content in every language.
I guess that nokia will translate maemo 5 to Arabic. If they plan to make N900 its high end phone they need to create much more content in every language.
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2009-10-16
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The Maemo logo in Arabic looks really nice.
I wish best of luck and success for http://www.ArMaemo.org.
I wish best of luck and success for http://www.ArMaemo.org.
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2009-10-16
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Looks very ineresting indeed, especially since this has the potential to atract developers for apps. etc. from all parts of the world. I could be interested in doing something similar with Chinese although I would need some help since I'm not a native speaker myself.
abu9al7, it would be very useful to me if you could keep me/us posted on your progress. I think I could learn much from your experience if I decide to go through with the Chinese version.
One thing that I'm wondering about though is how to deal with the possibility of having two threads in different languages discussing the same thing. While it may in fact be positive in some ways it does limit the exchange of ideas somewhat.
abu9al7, it would be very useful to me if you could keep me/us posted on your progress. I think I could learn much from your experience if I decide to go through with the Chinese version.
One thing that I'm wondering about though is how to deal with the possibility of having two threads in different languages discussing the same thing. While it may in fact be positive in some ways it does limit the exchange of ideas somewhat.
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2009-10-16
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I think we should certainly give support to localisation, the only problem is then de-centralisation of things like HowTos, forums, etc.
Not sure how that could/would be handled.
Not sure how that could/would be handled.
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2009-10-16
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Originally Posted by monoceros
Thanks
Great idea... another "regional" portal for Maemo Community after MaemoFr.org and MaemoIT.org...
I didn't know before about the MaemoFr.org & MaemoIT.org websites
this will make me more excited than before
Originally Posted by RevdKathy
Hello my friend
Off the top of my head, I saw the thread title and thought "Damned good idea". My experience of traveling in a few Arabic speaking countries leads me to conclude that whatever the US newscasters say, nokia is one of the most popular brands in places like Egypt, and there are just as many techies there as anywhere else.
I speak no arabic, so can't help much. But you have my support.
(Recalls a long techie chat with a shopkeeper in Tunisia comparing mobile phones... the one man there who never tried to sell me anything!)
Off topic, we have athread running about putting a Bible onto an n900. It's would be waaay cool if a translation of the Koran would run on the same software.
Thanks a lot for your words & support
about the putting the Quran onto an N900 that a thing I'm so sure that will happened soon
Originally Posted by geneven
Thanks for your encouragement and yes there will be a lot of work but if we work together as a community it will be easy work
This sounds like an unbelievable amount of work, congrats for your ambition.
Originally Posted by qgil
I think that Maemo.org should give more care for other websites in other languages and that will give Maemo OS the chance to develop in multilanguages
Definitely maemo.org needs to think how to address local communities in languages other than English. I just got an email from a similar promoter interested in maemo.org in Russian. We can only expect more cases to come.
So while we help abu9al7 with the Arabic version we should basically help anybody with a same goal in another language. Should we start a maemo.org internationalization thread?
and for your question , yes we should do that and as we said aways (If something can't harm you , absolutely it will benefit you)
thanks for your replay
Originally Posted by drm
thanks drm , I called Nokia care ,the official Nokia store in Saudi Arabia, and they confirmed that N900 will arrive to the Middle East with an Arabic Maemo 5 OS
Amazing idea. I wish you all the luck.
I guess that nokia will translate maemo 5 to Arabic. If they plan to make N900 its high end phone they need to create much more content in every language.
So , an Arabic Meamo OS + Arabic apps = Maemo fans
Originally Posted by Rauha
thanks for the compliment
The Maemo logo in Arabic looks really nice.
I wish best of luck and success for http://www.ArMaemo.org.
I made it tow days before and took me 4 hours to design it
Originally Posted by freppas
Hello freppas and thanks for your replay
Looks very ineresting indeed, especially since this has the potential to atract developers for apps. etc. from all parts of the world. I could be interested in doing something similar with Chinese although I would need some help since I'm not a native speaker myself.
abu9al7, it would be very useful to me if you could keep me/us posted on your progress. I think I could learn much from your experience if I decide to go through with the Chinese version.
One thing that I'm wondering about though is how to deal with the possibility of having two threads in different languages discussing the same thing. While it may in fact be positive in some ways it does limit the exchange of ideas somewhat.
Don't worry , if you have any question you can post it and me and other guys will answer you and I hope to see your Chinese Maemo website as soon as possible
and about your question I think that the best Idea is to make official people that there job is contact with Maemo.org and their language Maemo.org so they transfer the major Idea of the thread and the replays in the both forums
Originally Posted by lardman
Hello lardman ,
I think we should certainly give support to localisation, the only problem is then de-centralisation of things like HowTos, forums, etc.
Not sure how that could/would be handled.
I can't see your point clearly , do you mean the same wondering that freppas has ?
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I have been working on a new website that I hope it will be an Arabic version of Maemo.org
My thought at the beginning is taking care of the forum , then after a while the downloads (the programs library) , then the blog and the homepage of the website , and finally open an Arabic Maemo Garage to make the Arabic talents appear .
So what can I do with this website ?
- Provide a place for Arabs who can't deal with the English language .
- Giving the opportunity for dissemination of Maemo OS between Arabs . And that's means more fans of Maemo Operating System .
- Translate , Develop and create apps that contain an Arabic Language .
What I most need it now is the support from all of you ,,
What can you do with this website ?
From the Admins :
Sending the vB forum styles and hacks files (I have a vBulletin owned license) + the Maemo's logo as Psd format (I can't found any thing on http://www.maemo.org/intro/trademarks/logos/)
From the programmers :
Helping me to learn how to translate the apps from English to Arabic + reverse the program from right to left (Arabic language written from right to left) because I don't have a background on programming (I'm a designer)
From All the rest :
I need your thoughts , opinions and your Idea to make this website rise and succeed
to visit the website (under construction)
http://www.ArMaemo.org
and to contact with me
Admin@ArMaemo.org
Thank you all very much
Ahmed Fahad
Last edited by abu9al7; 2009-10-16 at 05:56.