Suspension of Sabily 12.04!

Bismilleh walhamdolilleh wassaleto wassalemo ala rasol Alleh,
Assalamo alaykom

We announced before (http://sabily.org/website/en/component/content/article/6-news/843-sabily-1204-codename.html) that we will release Sabily 12.04 under the codename "Ibn-AlBaytar", but unfortunately we can't do that! In fact the lack of resources is the handicap.
And because the next version of ubuntu (12.10) will be released in the next few weeks, we see that releasing Sabily 12.04 at this time has no meaning.
That's why Sabily Management Committee announce to you the suspension of Sabily 12.04 and the deferment of the codename "Ibn-AlBaytar" to the next release 12.10 inshalla.
We hope that we find more resources in term of developers, graphical designers, packagers, iso builders... for next releases inshalla.
The most important news in Sabily Ibn-Albaytar is the integration of the new Quran study tool "Elforkane".

Assalamo alaykom

Sabily 12.04 codename

Bismilleh walhamdolilleh wassaleto wassalemo ala rasol Alleh,

Assalamo alaykom,

"Sabily Management Committee" is proud to announce the codename of Sabily 12.04 which is "Ibn al-Baytar".
For more details about this great Muslim Scientist please check here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Baitar
There is also a better article but in Arabic here: http://www.islamstory.com/ابن-البيطار-عبقرية-علمية-نادرة
Insha'Allahyou will enjoy "Sabily Ibn-AlBaytar" very much :)

Assalamo alaykom
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http://www.sabily.org/website/en/component/content/article/6-news/843-sabily-1204-codename.html

Sabily Uhud (11.10) released!

Bismillah Arrahman Arrahim,
Assalamo alaykom,
The Sabily team is proud to announce the release of the new version of Sabily 11.10, codename "Uhud".
You can download it here: link

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What's new:
- New "Uhud" pictures and wallpapers, new plymouth and GDM themes
- Hijra: Better support for Gnome3; added Gnome shell extension
- Thawab: Added support for configurable themes, added bok2ki script
- Monajat: Prayer times reminder & azan player
- fonts-hosny-amiri: Arabic Naskh style typographically oriented font

New applications:
- Alfanous: Quranic search engine
- gnome-shell-extension-islamic-datetime: GNOME Shell extension providing Islamic date/time functions
- gnome-tweak-tool: a tool to customize advanced GNOME 3 options

New from Ubuntu 11.10:
-  Linux kernel 3.0
- Default email client is Thunderbird instead of Evolution
- Gnome3
- Déjà Dup backup system included in the standard installation
- Login manager is lightdm instead of gdm
- Gwibber has a new interface using the most recent GNOME technologies.

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And still "nanny", parental web control application
"Gnome Nanny is an easy way to control what your kids are doing in the computer. You can limit how much time a day each one of them is browsing the web, chatting or doing email. You can also decide at which times of the day the can do this things. Gnome Nanny filters what web pages are seen by each user, so you can block all undesirable webs and have your kids enjoy the internet with ease of mind, no more worries!" (from nanny's website)

Important: to add blacklists to nanny, follow this procedure:
- download nanny.nbl file
- go to "System-Administration-Blacklists" menu
- click on "import" and select the nanny.nbl file
- select the blacklist entry and click on "edit", then select which categories you want to block

You have already installed Ubuntu 11.10 ? You can just transform it to Sabily...Follow this link :
http://www.sabily.org/wiki/index.php/Convert_a_standard_Ubuntu_installation_to_Sabily

Looking for volunteers !

بسم الله الرّحمان الرّحيم 

Sabily team informs you that we need volunteers to handle these tasks, waiting for your contributions Brothers and sisters...

(For more details you can join us on Launchpad Mailing List :  https://launchpad.net/~sabily.team 

Jazekom Allah khayran !

-Contributing in the Islamic software development (Alfanous)

For more details contact Assem Chelli by the Mailing List.

- Cleaning blueprints and putting them in the todo list page

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/sabily-project

http://www.sabily.org/wiki/index.php/TODO_list

-Ideas for Islamic Educational Software for kids (Brainstorming)

-Members to the Sabily Promotion Team 

http://sabily-guru.blogspot.com/2010/12/sabily-promotion-team.html

-New active members innovative and motivated are also welcome...

بسم الله الرّحمان الرّحيم

فريق سبيلي يعلمكم أنّه في حاجة لمتطوّعين يساهمون في تطوير نظام التشغيل الإسلامي سبيلي...قائمة الأعمال باللغة الإنجليزية فوق..يمكنكم الإلتحاق بنا على القائمة البريديّة لمزيد من الإستفسارات

https://launchpad.net/~sabily.team

بارك الله فيكم و نفع الله بكم

Tim Sabily memberitahu Anda bahwa kami membutuhkan sukarelawan untuk menangani tugas-tugas ini.
Menunggu Saudara dan saudari kontribusi Anda ...

https://launchpad.net/~sabily.team

Sabily Badr (11.04) released!

Bismillah Arrahman Arrahim,
Assalamo alaykom,
The Sabily team is proud to announce the release of the new version of Sabily 11.04, codename "Badr".
You can download it here: link

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What's new:
- New "Badr" pictures and wallpapers, new plymouth and GDM themes
- unity and unity 2D available on the DVD, but ubuntu classic (gnome 2) set by default
- new Firefox persona

New applications:
- islamic-date: extension for the Iceweasel/Firefox web browser that displays Hijri date
- zakat-calc: Sabily Zakat provides zakat calculations for Muslims
- gufw: easy to use Ubuntu Firefwall
- desktopnova (replacing wallpaper-tray)
- autoKey: to avoid typing frequently encountered words
- recordmydesktop: record desktop sessions to a video file (Ogg-Theora-Vorbis file)
- anki: extensible flashcard learning program

New from Ubuntu 11.04:
- Unity desktop
- Firefox 4
- LibreOffice (replacing OpenOffice)
- Banshee (replacing Rhythmbox)
- Linux Kernel 2.6.38 (with the "wonder 200 lines" patch now included by default)

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And still "nanny", parental web control application
"Gnome Nanny is an easy way to control what your kids are doing in the computer. You can limit how much time a day each one of them is browsing the web, chatting or doing email. You can also decide at which times of the day the can do this things. Gnome Nanny filters what web pages are seen by each user, so you can block all undesirable webs and have your kids enjoy the internet with ease of mind, no more worries!" (from nanny's website)

Important: to add blacklists to nanny, follow this procedure:
- download nanny.nbl file
- go to "System-Administration-Blacklists" menu
- click on "import" and select the nanny.nbl file
- select the blacklist entry and click on "edit", then select which categories you want to block

First international meeting of Sabily administration team :)

Assalamu alaykum,

Last week I was in France for a job mission and I profited of my being there to contact brother Mehdi (the admin of Sabily project) in direct for the first time from 4 years (the date on which I have known Mehdi, just a couple of weeks after he started Sabily project).
It was a pleasure to see him and to talk to him in real world (not in virtual world as we do always), also it was a pleasure to see his family especially his very nice son "Elyess" :)
I was very busy so I stayed with them only 15 minutes ^^" we didn't discussed a lot of subjects, just the deal was around family, Tunisian revolution, my travel to France..but we didn't left the occasion without talking about Sabily :D in this subject we talked about the idea of building a foundation around Sabily project..an international organisation that support and manage Sabily project in a professional manner! we did not developed the idea because the time was very short, also it need a lot of reflexion about objectives, roadmap, and especially sponsoring! we decide to continue the discussion online :)
I am not sure..but most probably that I will have another travel to Egypt in the next few weeks insha'Allah and so I can see brother Ahmed Almahmoudi and other brothers from Egypt :) I am not sure for the moment about that..but I hope it happen insha'Allah :D

Hereafter some photos, here my photo in the "La Defence" city:

And here with Mehdi:

And here with Mehdi's son:

Assalamo alaykom

Sabily - "Ubuntu Muslim Remix"

The Sabily team received today a message from Mark Shuttleworth, kindly allowing us to use the Ubuntu trademark:
"[...] Canonical is happy for you to use the Ubuntu trademark as part of the phrase "Ubuntu Muslim Remix", or "Ubuntu Islamic Remix", and if you wish to prefix that with Sabily that's fine too!
If you do use the name Ubuntu, we would ask that you follow the Ubuntu Code of Conduct in your community too. [...]"
Thank you Mark (and Canonical)!
We hope we could all together spread the use of Linux and Open Source software through Ubuntu and Sabily for Muslims and  for the whole of humanity!

 

Sabily Promotion Team

You have been a long time dreaming how to contribute in Sabily team ?

You have at least 1 hour for volunteer work ?

You want to be an active member in the Islamic OS community ?

Become a member of the new Sabily Promotion Team!

What is this promotion team?
This is a team of users who help spreading Sabily all over the world!
They help people to install and use Sabily, they talk about Sabily on the Internet and try to change mentalities so people use open-source software and operating system.

What are the requirements to become a member?
- help users on IRC
- or/and help users on forums
- or/and spread sabily by making announcements on forums, websites, blogs, facebook/twitter etc.
- or/and have a blog/website/forum where you talk regularly about sabily


What are the advantages of these members?
- An @sabily.org email alias that forwards to your real email address
- An sabily/member/your_nick cloak on freenode
- free FTP storage on sabily server
- The right to participate in team decisions; so they could influence the future of Sabily
- Write access on sabily's blog
- after some time of real participation, sabily's gifts like t-shirts or other goodies (http://www.zazzle.co.uk/jmehdi)


The Sabily Management Committee will be in charge of approving new members, and to check regularly their activity so they keep their status and advantages.
So, don't wait and ask for membership by sending a mail to: sabily-management at lists.launchpad.net

Sabily Sharing Services - Text sharing

 

Sabily Sharing Services provides now a pastebin-like service, where you can store and share large amount of texts:
http://sabi.ly/Share/Paste.aspx

Different syntaxes are available, here is an example of a C# formatted text:
http://sabi.ly/Share/PasteView.aspx?id=7PT

As usual, please report any bugs or suggests new features: contact us

Sabily Sharing Services

The Sabily Team is proud to announce the release of the Sabily Sharing Services website: http://share.sabily.org

This new website provides file sharing services; you can host temporarily private files to share with your friends, up to 100MB, with automatic antivirus scanning! So, people who will receive your download links will know if the files are safe or not.
Here is an example of a file considered as a virus (the file itself is safe, it's just for testing purpose): antivirus example
The next step will be to provide public files hosting, with rating & comments features, search engine, moderation (eg, to disallow haram pictures) etc., InshaAllah.
If you find bugs, or want to make suggestions, please contact us!

Eid Mubarak from Sabily team

Eid Mubarak!

عيد مبارك وتقبّل الله منا ومنكم

 

 

DVD cover for Al-Quds

Great thanks for brother Muslih the author of this work, Jazahollah khayran:

Sabily 10.10 Al Quds released!

Bismillah Arrahman Arrahim,
Assalamo alaykom,
The Sabily team is proud to announce the release of the new version of Sabily 10.10, codename Al-Quds.
You can download it here: link

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What's new:
- New "Al-Quds" pictures and wallpapers, new plymouth and GDM themes
- New screensaver pictures
- New Sabily logo
- Zekr 1.0.0
- New software: Alfanous - Quranic Search Engine

New from Ubuntu 10.10:
- New Ubuntu Software Center
- Installer: The Ubiquity Installer has been redesigned to be easier to use as well as to install drivers and download updates during installation.
- Gnome 2.32
- Evolution 2.30, much faster
- Shotwell has replaced F-Spot as the default photo manager

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And still "nanny", parental web control application
"Gnome Nanny is an easy way to control what your kids are doing in the computer. You can limit how much time a day each one of them is browsing the web, chatting or doing email. You can also decide at which times of the day the can do this things. Gnome Nanny filters what web pages are seen by each user, so you can block all undesirable webs and have your kids enjoy the internet with ease of mind, no more worries!" (from nanny's website)

Important: to add blacklists to nanny, follow this procedure:
- download nanny.nbl file
- go to "System-Administration-Blacklists" menu
- click on "import" and select the nanny.nbl file
- select the blacklist entry and click on "edit", then select which categories you want to block

A wallpaper for Sabily

Sabily 10.10 - Al Quds, beta version

Bismillah Arrahmen Arraheem,

Here is Sabily 10.10 - Al Quds, beta version:

http://88.191.122.107/Sabily/10.10/beta/sabily-10.10-desktop-i386-beta.iso
http://content.wuala.com/contents/jmehdi/DVD%20ISO%20files/10.10/beta/sabily-10.10-desktop-i386-beta.iso?dl=1

Please test it asap and report any bug or suggestion!

wa salam

Sabily pages on wikipedia need updates + translation into other languages

Assalamo alaykom,

Hereafter English Sabily page on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabily and via it you can access other languages pages.
As you can see it need updates (logo, brand, contents, links...), other languages pages are poor in term of content they should been ameliorated, also we need to improve them by new translation into other languages (even a part of the page not the whole contents).
Please participate in this effort, that don't need any programming skills, just a redaction skills ;)
You can join one or both of the following teams:
Sabily Redaction Team: https://launchpad.net/~sabily-redaction-team
Sabily Translators: https://launchpad.net/~sabily-translators

The members of these teams should be also more active in this subject.

Sabily 10.10, "Al-Quds", release date & countdown

Bismillah Arrahmen Arraheem,

Sabily 10.10, codename "Al-Quds", will be released on November 1st, InshaAllah.

Thanks to brother Muslih, we have 4 countdown themes you can use on your  websites, blogs, forum signatures etc., see details here:
http://sabily-guru.blogspot.com/2010/10/sabily-al-quds-countdown.html

Please help us spreading Sabily!

wa salam

Sabily Al-Quds countdown

Thanks to brother Muslih, we have 4 countdown themes for sabily 10.10 release:

theme 1	theme 2
theme 3	theme 4

To put these images on your websites, logs, forum signatures etc. just use the following URL: http://88.191.122.107/Sabily.Countdown/Countdown.aspx?release=10.10&theme=1
For example, to use it in a forum signature:
[img]http://88.191.122.107/Sabily.Countdown/Countdown.aspx?release=10.10&theme=1[/img]

You can set the "theme" parameter to 1, 2, 3 or 4.
Help us spreading Sabily!

New Sabily logo and brand

Bismilleh walhamdolilleh wassaleto wassalemo ala rasol Alleh,,

Assalamo alaykom,

Sabily team is proud to announce the new design of Sabily logo and Sabily brand:

The new logo:

The new brand:

Alhamdolilleh who helped us to finish this work that we hope that it will be successful, and a great thanks to our brother Muslih Al-Aqqad the author of this work for his efforts jazaho Allah khayran.

Be free to spread these new logo and brand on your blgos, websites, forums and social networks.

Inshalla as soon as possible we will update Sabily web site and Sabily theme with these modifications.

Assalamo alaykom

Changing Sabily logo

Assalamo alaykom,

After a precedent poll about changing Sabily logo, the decision was taken to change it.
Now we have two propositions done by our brother Muslih Al-Aqqad jazaho Allah khayran.
Hereafter the poll link: http://www.doodle.com/x98h8ac7ysv2xypb please participate as soon as you can, we should make our choice in three days insha'Allah so we can move to other thinks in term of design.