Re: New website for Arabeyes

I don't think we need everything to be available in English. Since we 
all translate into Arabic, I can assure that we all know Arabic already. 
The pages that should be available in languages other than Arabic are 
limited. I do, however, believe that certain pages must be available in 
English and any other language, as I said in my previous message.
Anyway, English content might be required under special circumstances, 
like browsing the website from the CLI, but I'm not sure whether we'll 
need this content in that kind of occasions.

Le 20/12/2011 00:09, Youssef Chahibi a écrit :
> Sounds good, we can have one simple presentation website and then move
> everything else (projects, contributor presentations, documentation if
> still useful) to the wiki.
>
> The main reason that discouraged me at some point from completing the
> drupal website is multilingualism issues. I could not get Drupal's
> 'project' module to be available in both English and Arabic.
>
> 2011/12/19 Abderrahim Kitouni <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>
>     Salam,
>
>     (I think this ought to be in admin, but I'm posting here for more
>     visibility)
>     (if this seems too long, skip to the last two paragraphs)
>
>     some time ago we discussed that we need a new website, we talked about
>     having a new website for Arabeyes. It was decided that we use drupal to
>     build a new website (and there was even a design for the website).
>
>     But times have changed, Arabeyes now has nothing to do with how it was
>     envisioned by its founders. Recently, I found the arabeyes handbook [1],
>     and as you can see, Arabeyes isn't functioning like this for some time
>     now. (tbh, it wasn't like this when I joined Arabeyes nearly 6 years
>     ago.
>
>     What I'm trying to say is that we shouldn't try to reproduce the current
>     structure of the website, but rather to have something more modern, and
>     more like some other free software projects.
>
>     One free software site that I liked is elementary [2]. (and I think a
>     more modern Arabeyes should function the same way). They are using
>     drupal as well.
>
>     So my suggestion is to collect the different uses that exist for the
>     current website as well as things that are needed and aren't possible,
>     and get a minimal website up and try to update it incrementally.
>
>     My vision of a minimal website would be something were we can post
>     announcements (and have comments), and it only needs to have Arabic
>     content (english may be useful later, but I think it isn't very urgent).
>     Are there other things you would see as essential to the launch of the
>     new website?
>
>     Regards,
>     Abderrahim
>
>     [1]
>     http://projects.arabeyes.org/download/documents/handbook/handbook-en/
>     [2] http://elementaryos.org/
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     General mailing list
>     [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>     http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> General mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
_______________________________________________
General mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general