and some photos of course :) http://jordanopensource.org/gallery/open-source-camp
2010/4/25 Issa Mahasneh <[email protected]> > Hi, > > The Jordan Open Source Association <http://jordanopensource.org> organized > the first meetup for Open Source developers, users and supporters in Jordan. > The event, organized primarily to be a launchpad for social networking in > the Jordanian FLOSS community and to strengthen the connection between > individuals, companies and the Jordan Open Source Association, aimed to > regroup the Open Source community in Jordan in order to discuss problems and > difficulties in spreading Open Source in the country and what are the most > appropriate strategies to be taken to alleviate them. > > Different Open Source "geeks" from different organizations (students, > developers, managers) participated in the meetup. A bright future for Open > Source adoption was expected. > > Me, Laith Zreikat (co-founder of Jeeran) and Kefah Issa (freesoft.jo) had > some speeches about Open Source/Free Software philososphy, the need to an > organized and strong community and the need to more events like Open Source > Camp. > Laith Zraikat also talked about how Jeeran switched from proprietary > technologies (primarily Microsoft's) to Open Source alternatives like > Drupal. > > Here are some good links (in Arabic) to check: > > - The IT sector in Jordan moves towards Open Source (article on > jordanzad.com) <http://bit.ly/bcwY9a> > - Report on the Jeeran Technology Channel <http://bit.ly/dmZRkg> > - Youtube video. <http://bit.ly/9kP4s9> > > If you have some questions about the event, please feel free to ask me :) > > Issa Mahasneh > Jordan Open Source Association > http://jordanopensource.org > > -- ### Jordan Linux Users Group ### http://Jolug.org/ http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug ### Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team ### https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JordanTeam http://lists.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-jo ### Ojuba Linux ### http://ojuba.org/ ### Jordan PHP ### http://groups.google.com/group/JoPHP
