Hey Answers inline: On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 17:46 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I am closing down for Shabbat, I will be back on Sunday. Until then: > > > > While working in Affordy I tried to find ways of fixing this bug, that > > does require deep knowledge of x11 (beyond my abilities). > > Shachar Shemesh's company, who is the filer of the bug and the head in > > Linugnu, said it would be possible to fix it, but the price would be > > around tens of thousands of shekels. > > > > How many tens? 20,000 or so > > > > I thought I might get ISOC to fix it in "kol kore"l; > > What exactly is Kol Kore? http://www.isoc.org.il/open/faq.html
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> > plus they worked
> > with Shachar/Lingnu (also the sum of money is around the same range).
> > However ISOC seemed not too interested to do this. I spoke to Yesha who
> > is in charge of this in ISOC. He simply confirmed he heard of it and the
> > problem is: "its not internet related so they can't justify it".
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> Assuming that Kol Kore is for internet-related problems only, then he
> is correct. Maybe there are other bodies who could handle this. What
> bodies would that be? I will gladly contact them to ask. They don't
> even have to be government bodies. How about the Hebrew Academy (this
> is promoting Hebrew support), international Jewish organizations, or
> FLOSS organizations?
I don't know. is you have a better idea go with it :)
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> > However it seems to me ISOC in "kol kore" have supported other unrelated
> > things.
> >
>
> Such as? Please be specific.
Scratch, a multimedia learning envirement. That was in kol kore.
Open source Hebrew OCR (HOCR).
Not that I am saying that they are less worthy project (in-fact I know
the developers). But are those internet-related?
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> Thanks.
>
>
Guy
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