Re: Possible cooperation with officials

["Chahine M. Hamila" <HALCON11 at terra dot es>]

Yow,
As far as I understand, he coordinates a few workgroups in computer science at
the university level, one of which is the arabization of free software. In other
words, I believe we can at least get some useful 'volunteers' doing arabizing
work as part of their univeristy curriculum under Arabeyes' umbrella, like the
ones working on openoffice arabization. He is interested in coordinating his
efforts with other Arab organizations. I will ask him for more details indeed,
sending him a summary of the view_partners file for a start. I will also try to
meet him personally in Tunisia to see if we can get anything interesting from the
authorities (if it can give them some positive PR we are most likely to get some
significant official help).
I didn't bother forwarding the email because it was written in French. If you
still think it's useful, I will forward it, just tell me.
A not directly related point, I just read the views_partner file for the first
time since the first version as you pointed it out. I think the tone is not
diplomatic/marketing enough. I will try to rewrite some of it in a more
PR-friendly form without changing the content if you guys don't mind it.
Any last comment before I contact the guy?
Salaam,
Chahine

Mohammed Elzubeir a *crit :

> On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 01:24:15PM +0100, Chahine M. Hamila wrote:
> > Salaam you two!
> >
> > The point is, he just wrote me asking for an official coordination of
> > our projects and theirs. So I want you guys to brainstorm, *quickly*, on
> > how we could benefit from such a cooperation, and what I should
> > answer... Please make it quick because I'm going to be out for a couple
> > of days, and I would like to answer before.
> >
>
> Chahine,
>
> I can't really say how such 'cooperation' would be made if we don't have a
> clear idea of what the objectives and goals of that group or org are. Do they
> have a web presence? Did he give you more details? Can you fwd the original
> message?
>
> Our official stance on any cooperation has been put in the views_partner file,
> which is what we did before working with Haydar. If that is a 'suitable'
> enough view for this foundation you speak of, then that is our reply.
> Otherwise, we need to know exactly what they are about, and what they are
> missing, so we can figure out how we can fill the gaps ;)
>
> later
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