UBM/IBM support offer

[Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi at arabeyes dot org>]

Salam ..
  I just came from meeting Mr. Zuhri Abu-Awwad, Business Development Manager 
in UBM.. He Said that UBM/IBM want to play a role in supporting Open Source 
Community, and as a part of it, they would be glad to help Arabeyes in 
whatever Arabeyes may need. 
  I told him about some of our needs, that we discussed before.. In general, 
he finds that IBM is able and will be willing to provide them.. he asked me 
for :
  - A paper with Arabeyes definition, and Goals
  - Specifications of Arabeyes needs. That includes:
	+ Detailed specifications of the space/bandwidth/services needed for hosting
	+ Detailed info about any money needed, how much, and for what it will be
	    spent
  - A suggested way to acknowledge IBM's support by a note, a thank you 
message, in Arabeyes main page or so..

I will start working on preparing the papers needed .. I will do the one for 
Arabeyes definition and goals.. we had been though this so many times .. I 
will do it in a Headed paper that I will create .. I will use the same headed 
paper for other Arabeyes Paper correspondence .. I will put the PDF of that 
headed paper available for other core members .. 
  I expect a detailed email from Mohamed about technical specifications for 
the Server hosting .. please include everything you can provide or we can ask 
for .. (Mail server/Root Access/Apache/PHP/MySQL/Space Needed/least required 
processing power/ and so) .. They will place it in the IBM mainframes in 
Dubai .. this is my initial understanding .. He offered hardware .. but I 
said that hosting perposes, having a committed hosting would be better.. I 
mentioned commitment, he said that for sure the IBM-Arabeyes Agreement will 
include commitment from IBM side .. 

I will try to Arrange a meeting with Mr. Zuhri to provide him the needed 
papers by next Saturday .. maybe and and Nadim can go to provide it to him, 
and answer any extra questions that he may have ..

That's all for now ..

Later
Isam Bayazidi