Re: [libreoffice-l10n] LibreOffice in Persian

Hello Hossein,

Perhaps you could work together? I believe the Persian Native-Language
Project of OpenOffice.org led by Farsiweb was the first native-lang
community to support LibreOffice the very day of its opening :-)

Also we do tend to acknowledge past contributions in the OpenOffice.org
project.

Pootle Admins: 
I would strongly suggest Farzaneh gets her Pootle
account. 

Best,
Charles. 

Le Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:26:20 +0330,
Hossein Noorikhah <hossein.ir@gmail.com> a écrit :

> 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
> <farzaane@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.
> >
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