--- Arafat Medini <lumina silverpen de> wrote:
with our political situation right now and the whole
situation of the Arab world, a question arises on which
I want to hear some discussion some arguments that
really convince and some interesting reads. Do you
really think that our work helps the Arabs in any way?
Do you really think that our project will become a
success? The resources are very narrow the people are
not present and the Arabic culture is heavily using
foreign languages for technical work, the arabs don't
even now what liberty is to understand what liberty of
choice or open sourced apps are, and hoping alone rally
doesn't help much. what do you think?
Arafat, your questioning is most likely based on the
recent world news. Its understandable to be
sad/confused/happy/worried/hyperventilated/hungry among
other things :-) but what is serious here is to question
what has happened to us Arabs in general (I'm talking
with regard to Arabeyes, but it can be extrapolated to
other things). What will it take for us to finally
become active as we once were. I contend that we need to
fist-slap our own faces to WAKE-UP to realize we have
things we need to do and things we need to accomplish.
This feeling of helplessness and indifference _is_ in
itself defeat and there is no reason to be defeated -
hope and work go hand-in-hand.
Case in point - this mailing-list has in excess of 150
people on it (yup, 150). We see at most 5-6 active
people posting and actually working and caring. What
worries me and makes my head shake and boils my blood is
wanting to know what will it take for the rest 144 people
to get off their bums and finally say "Yes, I do indeed
need to help and I will make a difference - I WILL DO IT
!!".
We've been taught (culturally and religiously) to give
back to our community every chance we get - why is that
such a difficult concept to comprehend ?
As for "is Arabeyes needed - we're all going to be
assimilated anyways ?" My answer would be, if you intend
to dye your hair blond/pink, wear blue or green
eye-contacts, change your name to
Hans/Francois/John/Alberto and raise your kids as though
they are from Atlantis then its a clear YES. I love my
heritage and will do all I can to keep it alive and to
raise my kids by its values and standards.
cheers
I'll keep the cheers for later - if you don't mind :-/
Wake-up people - make a difference and contribute.
Salam.
- Nadim
__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and
more http://tax.yahoo.com
_______________________________________________
Doc mailing list
Doc at arabeyes dot org
http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc