open source software presentation

[Omar Abo-Namous <merlin12345 at gmx dot de>]

Salam all,

we are trying to put together a lecture program for the next year at the 
local mosque. I thought it would be a nice idea, if we could find 
someone who could give us a small presentation of open source software 
development. Of course he'd have to tell us about arabeyes in 
particular, but the main idea is to understand what open source means 
for the people involved. Perhaps he could give us some good examples of 
good open source projects that are competing with the commercial/closed 
ones..

Since it is in a mosque, it would be nice, if he can present the 
itl-project and perhaps go into the quran-data, which is still in 
check-status..

if course the mosque would compensate for the costs (driving..), untill 
now, we were thinking of mid-year for this presentation, the attendants 
(?) would be mostly students and academics, it should be in german (or 
arabic, but still german would be better).

That's for starters.

Salam.

Omar