Shalom.
25 people showed up. The meeting lasted 5 hours so I can not cover even a
small fraction of what was discussed. I won't even try to summarize Nadav's
and Dov's lectures. If you're interested look in
<http://www.m17n.org/mule/m17n2000/proceedings/harel/tsukuba4.sdd>
(staroffice format) and <http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/freesw/FriBidi>
respectively.
Too many pieces of Hebrew software were mentioned for me to list here. The
problem is that they are scattered all over the internet, and are difficult
to install. The solution to the first problem is to put them in the Ivrix
FTP site <ftp://ftp.ivrix.org.il/pub/ivrix>; the answer to the second is
packaging them in RPMs and debs so they could be installed automatically. To
enable more people to participate in this effort our next meeting will
include lectures by Tzafrir on making RPM packages, and by Amos on making
debs.
It was decided unanimously (Guy didn't attend!) to concentrate all future
efforts on Logical Hebrew and UTF-8 encoding, rather than visual Hebrew and
ISO 8859-8. This would allow our work to be incorporated in more general
Linux i18n efforts like Pango/GTK-1.4.
Therefore it is of the highest priority to package the LD_PRELOAD hack for
Dov's gtkbiditext widget, which allows using logical Hebrew in most GTK
applications. The following people volunteered for the taskforce that will
handle this: Ilya, Shaul, Tzafrir, Yonni, Adi.
Not less important is improving the font situation. This means collecting
all available Hebrew fonts, investigating the legalities of their
distribution, converting them to the appropriate formats, packaging them
ourselves and including them in the official X and kbd distributions. The
taskforce to do this comprises Ilya, Yiftach and Tal, with the help of Eli
Marmor.
Documentation work will start with updating the Hebrew Howto. This would be
done by Evyatar and Ohad.
All of the above taskforces could use your assistance! If you want to
volunteer
post to the list or mail Danny <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
We would have a list of tasks and projects on the Ivrix website
<http://www.ivrix.org.il>. You can post suggestions to the ivrix-discuss
list.
If you're interested in helping Nadav with the website you should email him.
It was agreed that we should have more cooperation between the IGLU and the
Ivrix websites.
The next meeting of the workshop will be on Sunday 30.4 at 19:00 in the Dach
lecture hall in Tel Aviv University. There will be a more complete
announcement sometime next week. I hope we will achieve some progress by
then.
--
Lehitraot, Roi.
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