On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 08:56:39PM -0800, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> Salam - I'm ready to mail (120+) colleagues regarding our university
> initiative and would like to get some feedback and ideas on the prepared
> email. I do realize its long - but its filled with info. The only parts
> that I can easily remove are,
>
> a. the list of "why should universities do this"
> b. the list of "why should universities support arabization"
> i. there seems to be redundancy in them and the benefit points
> really capture all those thoughts (plus they are much shorter)
> c. the section titled "A bit on arabeyes"
>
> What are your thoughts.
>
> Mohammed - I did tone down the "aggressiveness" :-) so do let me know
> if you have any other remarks (thanks for the earlier ones btw).
>
Nice ;) I don't think anything needs to be removed right now.. it has a lot
more flow to it and the re-iteration can serve as emphasis.
This however brought to mind the idea of actually mailing it to those
universities, through postal mail. That is, in addition to the emails of
course. But I just think a physical proof of existence might re-enforce the
idea. I'm just thinking out loud.
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+ Provide extra experience to students when dealing with
existing code; its been proven that 80% of "real-world"
^
' goes there ;)
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Otherwise, send away as far as I'm concerned.
later
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