Arabeyes Project

About the Arabeyes Project

Arabeyes is a Meta project that is aimed at fully supporting the Arabic language in the Unix/Linux environment. It is designed to be a central location to standardize the Arabization process. Arabeyes relies on voluntary contributions by computer professionals and enthusiasts all over the world.

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Updates

Khotot
Jul 01, 2008

We released a new (with bug fixes) KACST fonts 2.0 release. See the full announcement.

ITL
Dec 22, 2007

Djihed Afifi would like to announce that Minbar 0.2 has been released. Check out the changes.

Khotot
Aug 19, 2007

Khaled Hosny announced the new 2.0 release in the mailing list.

Khotot
Jul 16, 2007

Khaled Hosny announced the new 1.9beta2 release in the mailing list.

Khotot
Jun 23, 2007

Khaled Hosny announced the new 1.9beta1 release in the mailing list.

Arabeyes News

Mar 13, 2007: Arabeyes applies to GSoC

Arabeyes is pleased to announce that it intends to participate, for the first time, in Google's Summer-of-Code (GSoC) program. Arabeyes submitted its application in hopes of attaining permission to become a 'Mentoring Organization'. Google will look over our application and suggested projects/tasks to see if we fit their criteria after which "students" should be able to apply (Note: we were rather unfortunately not picked).

We'd like to thank Djihed Afifi for taking the initiative to make this happen as well as all those that participated and helped on Arabeyes' various mailing-lists. For further discussions please use the 'general' or 'developer' mailing-lists.

Dec 29, 2006: Arabic Gnome-2.16 Translation Complete

Arabeyes.org is pleased to announce that Gnome-2.16 has been fully translated (and 2.18 is very close to completion).

We'd like to thank our Gnome translation team members for pressing ahead in attaining this great goal (for further details please read this posting). For further discussions please use the 'doc' mailing-list.

Oct 28, 2006: Arabic Firefox 2.0 Available

Arabeyes.org is pleased to announce the availability of a fully translated Arabic Mozilla Firefox 2.0 browser.

Help us thank our Mozilla translation team members for their determination and continued efforts and feel free to give them as much assitance as possible for it is very much needed. For further discussions please use the 'doc' mailing-list.

Sep 19, 2006: Arabeyes' server upgraded

Arabeyes.org's server underwent a major software maintenance cycle (Sept 14 - Sept 18). All software packages and tools were updated as was its kernel (a number of complications arose which were ultimately addressed - special thanks to Mohammed.Trojette, Mohammed.Sameer and of course Anmar.Oueja). Various tools will continue to be worked on until they are improved and streamlined for better user and administration experiences. If you have issues and/or are interested in such things, you are highly encouraged to subscribe to the admin mailing-list.

Thanks to all those that helped and for your continued support and understanding.

Jul 22, 2005: Arabeyes Evolution Party 2005

Arabeyes.org took a major evolutionary step on July 29, 2001 when it mutated to its current final form. We, the volunteers, workers, Arabic language lovers and linux enthusiasts, would all like to invite you to celebrate this momentous occasion.

This year's theme is "Help us proceed in the right direction". We are hoping to hear from all our past volunteers as well as new recruits; we are anticipating some much needed and sought after feedback on how arabeyes as a project should move forward in order to further attain results. Our collective work is far from complete and as such we need to have a meeting of the minds to better organize our next steps.