Arab Techies is a collective of Arabic speaking technology enthusiasts and practitioners from varying backgrounds interested in working together to support their communities on the route for development and social change, to share experiences and knowledge, and to collaborate on solving common problems.

The Arab Techies Projects space hosts the development of software projects developed as part of the activities of Arab Techies and its members. at the moment the projects are mainly focused on Arabic localization and natural language processing

More outcome from the code sprint

Posted Sat, 20/06/2009 - 22:39

Some of the missing pieces in improving and encouraging Arabic content on the web and a providing a better computing experience for Arabic speaking users are not solved by code.

Well classified open access Arabic language corpora and linguistic data is sorely missing, a point that was strongly emphasized in the 1st Arab Techies gathering.

As a modest contribution towards improving open access corpora Arab Techies has released a classified Arabic Stop-Words list

Apart from code and linguistic data some problems are better solved by documenting best practices, we proudly present the first draft of the "RTL design best practices and examples" document.