Re: Click .. in Amman

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi arabeyes org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 June 2002 16:06, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> > --- Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir arabeyes org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 09:38:04PM -0300, Isam Bayazidi wrote:
> > > > Alot had been said and discussed .. the most important thing is that
> > > > Arabeyes efforts will make it to the silver screen :-)
> > >
> > > When you are free, do give us the nitty-gritty details ;) Do we have an
> > > approximate date for such an event (so we can properly advertise for it
> > > in advance) ?
> 
> Well Mohammed .. There is no date .. we decided to have non stoping 
> correspondance in between to set such event .. I guess it will be in the near
> 
> future ( 2 months) .. 
> 
> 
> > I very much think we should look into some web-conference (linux based,
> > of course) tools to impress upon their viewers linux's advances.
> 
> what do you mean by a web-conference ?

The ability to use live audio/video between 2+ people via the internet.

> > I don't follow click (or its programs), but it would be cool if we
> > impressed upon them that others, via the web and on linux/unix, would
> > be available to contribute -- being the first to do that would certainly
> > raise some eyebrows (even though similar technology already exists on
> > other platforms).  It would be ideal to convey across a sense of community
> > to them and our passion for this.
> >
> > I might be jumping the gun here - but this is really cool :-)
> 
> Well they are aware of Linux .. infact all the servers of the Emirates Media 
> Inc. ( www.emi.co.ae ) are Linux servers .. 
> 
> They asked me about how we liked the program .. and asked about what they can
> 
> do ... from what I said that a demonstration for Arabic running Linux would 
> be great .. it wil help removing the stereotype that Linux does not have 
> Arabic support .. they were as well surprised with the level of support for 
> Arabic Linux has ..

Looks like we need more screenshots to give a better feel to people out there
of what is possible.

 - Nadim

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