Tom, I'm forwarding your email to Arabeyes' "general" mailing-list to solicit comments (yeah, I know I'm very late in doing this and that is why I always ask people not to mail me directly and instead mail arabeyes' mailing-lists -- better late than never I guess :-)
Regards, - Nadim --- Tom Adelstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have found you through Arabeyes. I am speaking at a > conference on open source in the middle east. Here is a > post I made to the Ubuntu users mailing list. > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Hello all - > > I'm scheduled to go to the middle-east this summer and speak > to an open source conference with mainly government > officials in attendance. I'll provide more information on > that. I hope to distribute Ubuntu CD's at the conference. In > one talk, I'll be building a computer from scratch and > installing Ubuntu on it. I think that will be exciting for > the attendees. > > So, I want to do some articles about governments using Linux > - outside the United States. So if anyone has any cases they > can share with me, I would be so pleased. I'm looking for > Linux used in Arabic speaking countries. Farsi and Urdu will > also work. > > I would like to present the case studies and will accept > papers for that purpose. Also, information about open source > activities, distributions, user groups, etc. will help. > > Any advice related to speaking to a conference in the middle > east will help also. > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > My sponsors include the United Nations, USAID and a > Government in the Middle East. > > Do you have any advice? Can I do anything for you? > > Thank you, > > Tom __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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