Thanks for people who're following this thread.
0. We cannot convince the people of Israel to use Linux without
offering them good and stable Hebrew support. We must acknowledge
the fact that we have almost nothing to offer right now. Solution
to this problem is obvious -- design and coding. Therefore our
message at Linux Demo Day should be like "Look how great Linux
is, let's develop for Hebrew speakers". We must stress the need
for Hebrew support. We must stress the fact that nobody will
develop one for us.
1. We should carefully select our target auditory: it's just a
waste of time and resources to talk to random by-passers at
Dizenhoff or Malkey Israel -- we have nothing to tell 'em. We
must talk to developers because we fight for desktop users.
2. Maybe there should be yet another installation party (what
is really cool, BTW) but it is much more important to gather
people willing to develop AND ACTUALLY SHOW THEM HOW TO BUILD
LINUX APPLICATIONS. We should invite people that do efforts in
bringing Hebrew to Linux and ask them to talk about it. Ask them
to show how they do it, which tools they use etc. In short, we
need Linux Development Demo Day. We need people to talk on and
show development with/for GTK+GNOME+CORBA/Qt+KDE+KOM. Meeting of
[would-be] developers with Dov Grobgeld, Eli Marmor, Nadav
Har'El should be great thing (sorry if I missed somebody who
made Hebrew development efforts -- I am new to this list).
All the stuff must be targeted primarily at non-Linux
programmers.
3. We need to define our priorities: Hebrew Linux distribution
(Ivrix project) is all fine for me but IMHO, we can't chew this.
Free Hebrew enabled office suite on top of regular distributions
must come first. My Debian is brilliant, I just wanna be able to
create Hebrew documents on it :)
I understand, it's hard to make this happen but we need to do as
much as we are able. Just do it -- it would be really haval` not
to :)
How much people are really interested in all this?
[All suggestions and opinions expressed here are mine and
nobody else's.]
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