Hi, Thanks for your attention, but I'm really against giving the coordination of this project to Mrs. Sarafraz and FarsiWeb Inc., the company that took over fa.openoffice.org and did nothing within 6 years, from 2005 until now, near end of 2010.
Some time in 2005, Meelad Zakaria, a member of Farsiweb ltd. requested for adding Persian locale for OpenOffice. http://native-lang.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=4443 I asked Meelad to add me to the project, so I could contribute in localizing OpenOffice.org, About 1 month after receiving my message, he just added me as an observer. I sent him other messages regarding the status of the project, and I asked him "what he'll do", but I couldn't get an appropriate answer from him. After a lot of effort, and warnings from OpenOffice guys because of locking the project, he added me as a developer. Some time later, I saw the Persian localized version of Linux from Farsiweb ltd. that contained Persian OpenOffice.org. http://www.farsiweb.ir/wiki/Main_Page It seems that Meelad registered as the project leader of OpenOffice.org, and then stopped the job, because they wanted their Persian version of OpenOffice.org to be unique. Now, after about 6 years, you see no progress in the project. After that, I decided to devote my time on fixing i18n bugs (my username is "h15n" there), and I think my efforts was helpful for OO.o users. Fixing problems with justified Persian text<http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=28203>, and including context shaping of numbers<http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=98418>, was vital for the real world usage of OpenOffice, and I'm happy to continue spending my time on it<http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=100940>. Please tell me one useful thing that FarsiWeb did during past 6 years, rather than locking the project? Please note that farsilinux.ir is not a personal website. I registered this domain, for the sole purpose of localization of open source software, including LibreOffice. Please don't point to fa.openoffice.org, as it's just a 2 page Persian translation of some pages from English OOo which was copied after a lot of questions raised about FarsiWeb policies. Copying those 2 pages won't take a lot of time. I don't want to continue this talk, but if it's needed, I can forward my communications with guys at OpenOffice.org for further insight on FarsiWeb policies against contribution of interested people. They just sign up as the project owner and disappear. I'm currently a PhD. candidate at computer department of Amirkabir University of Technonlogy <http://ceit.aut.ac.ir>, and I've spent many years on development of localized Persian software. Because of this, I think I can handle the coordination of this project. Furthermore, I have no plan to use my position as a way to gain financial benefits. In fact, I really care about this project, as I've spent a lot of time for it before. I've talked to some members of fa.openoffice.org before planing to be the coordinator of the Persian localization of LibreOffice and they are also against making FarsiWeb the coordinator. I've started working on farsilinux.ir, and I think soon we'll have a great place where we can welcome anyone (even FarsiWeb guys) who wants to contribute to LibreOffice. Hossein On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Farzaneh Sarafraz <farza...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > We already have a homepage at fa.openoffice.org. I also have a local full > recent backup of the data there. Thanks, Hossein for showing interest in > the > fa_IR project, but I think you should put a link to the page we already > have > rather than a non-existing external personal (?) page. > > I'll fix it for now until we move the page over to libreoffice. > > Farzaneh. > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > l10n+h...@libreoffice.org<l10n%2bh...@libreoffice.org> > List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/l10n/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to l10n+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/l10n/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
