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 <jwildebo at redhat.com> 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
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> 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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