Moved to General (was: promotion for linux in arabia (preliminary thoughts))

[Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi at arabeyes dot org>]

Salam..
Please Allow me to move the discussion to the General List of Arabeyes.. I 
guess that translators and developers should be members there already.. This 
discussion need to involve all those are interested in Arabeyes, and not all 
of them are in the doc list .. allow me Arafat.. I will reply there ..

Yours
Isam

On Saturday 28 December 2002 12:35, Arafat Medini wrote:
> Salam all,
>
> Some preliminary thoughts about how to resolve the problem of the very
> very little user base of linux in arabia.
>
> 1.Contact the big websites like Aljazeera. Arabia, alarabonline and
> convince them to show articles about linux and the free software
> movement, convince them to let us elp in the making of the articles so
> that we can show the advantages of linux.
>
> 2.Make a website dedicated for the novice user who wants to get
> information about linux. It has to be a simple website which has all the
> needed information about linux.
>
> 3.Contact the major distributors to ask about some support in the
> arabization.
>
> 4.Contact all the arab linux user groups to make some in town promotion
> I think it the job of their members to promote linux among their freinds
> and at universities. Ask them to promote linux and collaborate with them
> for the acquisition of new users.
>
> 5.Try to analize the possible user base in the arabic world:
>
> for example :
> as paradox as it seems gnome seems to be more suited for the arabic user
> then KDE simply becasue gnome2 uses far less resources then KDE3, but we
> have are very far in KDE translation and KDE is  pushed very hard in
> mouth to mouth propaganda, the paradox is that when using KDE in tunisia
> I remarked that it is useless becasue it uses so many resources, so it
> is as if we were making publicity for a rolls royce for a road between
> Alexandria and aswan ...
>
> 6.The most important thing is mouth to mouth propaganda we have to show
> friends the distros and make them use the distros and ask them to show
> the distros to other freinds and so on.
>
> 7.Also very important in the internet community arabeyes has gained some
> respect we can try to use this respect to convince the orginazations
> mentioned above to work with us, like haydar linux does.
>
> 8.We have to make a plan and a timeline thos are preliminary thoughts,
> any other comment and preleminary thoughts about a  roadmap would be
> much appreciated.
>
> cheers
>
>
>
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