Israeli Linux Related Web Sites - Outdated and User UnFriendly!

[Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda]

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
<ladypine at gmail.com>wrote:

>
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> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il>wrote:
>
>> Hello Fellow Israeli Linuxers!
>>
>> I was going over some Israeli Linux web sites (using
>> http://www.linux.org.il and http://www.hamakor.org.il as starting
>> points) and I've noticed a few problems:
>>
>>    1. most of the mention the same resources (obviously).
>>    2. Almost all of them are in English only.
>>    3. Some of the links on the "Israeli Resources" pages are dead -
>>    i.e.: http://www.zulo.org.il.
>>    4. All of them are outdated - both design (The IGLU site is the
>>    exception) and content-wise.
>>
>> I have no idea in Web development and/or design, but what I *do* have is
>> lots of motivation, free time and some basic translation skills.
>>
>> I am willing to learn, so if someone spends an hour explaining to me how
>> to improve the above points,
>>
> and gives me the appropriate credentials, I will be more the glad to help
>> out in remedy the situation.
>>
>
>
> Your first requirement:
> Haifux code explanation is here:
> http://haifux.org/hebrew/about.html
> We stopped updating the Hebrew translation due to encoding problems. The
> system works with iso-8859-1, and the server is UTF8.
> You can download the whole site source and compile it on your own machine.
>
> Your second requirement: credentials. None of the Haifux contributors ever
> got any, to the best of my knowledge. Only speakers get credentials.
>

Sorry, of course speakers get credits, not credentials. You still do not
need credentials to develop Haifux.


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>
>>
>> We have to make the Israeli Linux Portal more welcome for the Israelis,
>> starting with the most obvious task: Making Hebrew content available!
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Amichai Rotman.
>>
>>
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>
> --
> Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda.
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