Re: Activities in KSA

[Jan Wildeboer]

Agreed wrt legal stuff but that is Syria and Iran mainly. KSA, UAE, Jordan 
should be no problem. First step is to focus on practical issues - 
localization. In parallel reach out to interested people/universities - 
maybe a POSSE in KSA or Dubai?

Just brainstorming, though.

Jan

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Sent: Tue Apr 06 03:58:03 2010
Subject: Re: Activities in KSA

Hi Jan,

I totally agree with you, but ...
1.) there were some barriers (legal and embargos) from E to MEA,
2.) the first step must be from the MEA region as well

or should be bring something into the dust? because of not knowing
infrastructure fo a county, people who needs AND want our help is very
difficult.
maybe a "You're interested in ..." - page could help to find the correct
"first contact".

All the best

Gerold
> All,
>
> I am right now in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in my role Red Hats Evangelist. It
> seems there is virtually no Fedora community here.
>
> Am I missing something or do we need to change that? There definitely is a
> lot of interest and some enthusiasm to build upon.  Simple stuff like
> better
> localization, more comples stuff like having usergroups.
>
> So do we know of any work in the MEA area? Should we start focusing a bit
> more on this area?
> Jan
>
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Activities in KSA

[John Babich]

Jan:

I am currently working in Riyadh.  Let's get together. Send a private
email to my
Gmail account and I will respond.

John Babich
Fedora Ambassador

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Jan Wildeboer  wrote:
> Agreed wrt legal stuff but that is Syria and Iran mainly. KSA, UAE, Jordan
> should be no problem. First step is to focus on practical issues -
> localization. In parallel reach out to interested people/universities -
> maybe a POSSE in KSA or Dubai?
>
> Just brainstorming, though.
>
> Jan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: [e-mail]
>
> To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base
>
> Sent: Tue Apr 06 03:58:03 2010
> Subject: Re: Activities in KSA
>
> Hi Jan,
>
> I totally agree with you, but ...
> 1.) there were some barriers (legal and embargos) from E to MEA,
> 2.) the first step must be from the MEA region as well
>
> or should be bring something into the dust? because of not knowing
> infrastructure fo a county, people who needs AND want our help is very
> difficult.
> maybe a "You're interested in ..." - page could help to find the correct
> "first contact".
>
> All the best
>
> Gerold
> > All,
> >
> > I am right now in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in my role Red Hats Evangelist. It
> > seems there is virtually no Fedora community here.
> >
> > Am I missing something or do we need to change that? There definitely is a
> > lot of interest and some enthusiasm to build upon.  Simple stuff like
> > better
> > localization, more comples stuff like having usergroups.
> >
> > So do we know of any work in the MEA area? Should we start focusing a bit
> > more on this area?
> > Jan
> >
> > marketing mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
>
> --
> marketing mailing list
> [e-mail]
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
> --
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> [e-mail]
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

Activities in KSA

[Paul W. Frields]

Great idea for you guys to get together, John.

We do have an Arabic translation community, and L10n is a great way to
get people involved in the mainstream of Fedora community.  There's a
mailing list available at
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/trans-ar where
translators can introduce themselves.

Paul

On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 01:54:42PM +0300, John Babich wrote:
> Jan:
>
> I am currently working in Riyadh.  Let's get together. Send a private
> email to my
> Gmail account and I will respond.
>
> John Babich
> Fedora Ambassador
>
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Jan Wildeboer  wrote:
> > Agreed wrt legal stuff but that is Syria and Iran mainly. KSA, UAE, Jordan
> > should be no problem. First step is to focus on practical issues -
> > localization. In parallel reach out to interested people/universities -
> > maybe a POSSE in KSA or Dubai?
> >
> > Just brainstorming, though.
> >
> > Jan
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: [e-mail]
> >
> > To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base
> >
> > Sent: Tue Apr 06 03:58:03 2010
> > Subject: Re: Activities in KSA
> >
> > Hi Jan,
> >
> > I totally agree with you, but ...
> > 1.) there were some barriers (legal and embargos) from E to MEA,
> > 2.) the first step must be from the MEA region as well
> >
> > or should be bring something into the dust? because of not knowing
> > infrastructure fo a county, people who needs AND want our help is very
> > difficult.
> > maybe a "You're interested in ..." - page could help to find the correct
> > "first contact".
> >
> > All the best
> >
> > Gerold
> > > All,
> > >
> > > I am right now in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in my role Red Hats Evangelist. It
> > > seems there is virtually no Fedora community here.
> > >
> > > Am I missing something or do we need to change that? There definitely is a
> > > lot of interest and some enthusiasm to build upon.  Simple stuff like
> > > better
> > > localization, more comples stuff like having usergroups.
> > >
> > > So do we know of any work in the MEA area? Should we start focusing a bit
> > > more on this area?
> > > Jan
> > >
> > > marketing mailing list
> > > [e-mail]
> > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
> >
> > --
> > marketing mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
> > --
> > marketing mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
>
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