Re: Activities in KSA

2010-04-07 Thread Tareq Al Jurf
Hi Jan Welcome to Riyadh :) About the Fedora community, I know only one contributer in Riyadh, but there are some users. During the past few months I've been introducing Fedora to a lot of my friends. If you're wondering about the reason of the number of users who use Fedora here, that's because

Re: Activities in KSA

2010-04-07 Thread Diaa Radwan
Hello Jan, I am happy that you will be focusing on the ME area. I am fedora ambassador located in Egypt I have conducted 6 fedora events during 2008 [1] and 2009. There's no legal issues dealing with fedora/redhat. the only thing that might take time is sending fedora swag as there is tariff and

Re: Activities in KSA

2010-04-06 Thread Gerold
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

Re: Activities in KSA

2010-04-06 Thread John Babich
marketing-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org 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

Re: Activities in KSA

2010-04-06 Thread Paul W. Frields
: 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