OSS presentation

[Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi at arabeyes dot org>]

Salam ..
  I can not deny that I am having cold feet .. I hope to overcome this by some 
practice ..
  About the slides.. as there are some representatives from RedHat, IBM, and 
other OSS activist, we should focus more on Arabeyes projects, on-going ones, 
finished ones, and not-yet-started ones.. with a little about and status 
about each one, to give a better idea about Arabeyes activeness and 
determination to reach the desired goals..
  I guess that I will phone contact Mr. Nabeel to have a better idea about who 
the OSS activist present .. to make sure that there will be no intersection 
between what we will present and what others will have ( I am sure there will 
be some intersection with IBM with Arabization efforts) .. Maybe an LUG guy 
from SA or EG will be there .. I am not sure..
  The slides with "Why OSS is good for Arabs" is for sure not needed, as I 
suppose there will be stand-alone seminars about this topic, slides for:
- Translation Project ( kde-i18n, gnome-i18n )
- Akka
- Duali
- Katoob
- QaMoose
- non-Arabeyes project patches
	- VIM 
	- PuTTY
	- txtbdf2ps
- Misc
	- xkb, gkb, kxkb patched ( Arabic Keyboard added and fixed)
	- Bug Tracking, reporting and fixing for Arabic language support issues
	- Documentation/HOWTOs/FAQs for Arabic support issues
- Cooperation with Universities/ Businesses
- Brag a little about what we had reached in less than 2 years (attention, # 
of subscribers, being looked upon for Arabic language support issues for OSS)

this is some of my thoughts.. I will contact Mr. Nabeel in sunday.. or maybe I 
will contact Ms. Ghada ..

Yours
Isam Bayazidi