Re: getting new members

[Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de>]

Yeah great idea you mentioned Nadim so hmm ...

Am Sam, den 14.02.2004 schrieb Nadim Shaikli um 23:33:
> --- Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de> wrote:
> > To be more specific, the most important thing I required is that we
> > aren't actively searching for ppl outside... Why doesn't arabeyes make
> > more in contacting other sites and posting thread in other LUGs ? We
> > have a good infrastructure so we need to do some publicity... Go outside
> > and for sure the core team can influence some LUGs out there. I was
> > planning this for my search but GPLing this idea is not so bad. The core
> > team did a GREAT job still it has to go out I think and do a greater
> > job.
> 
> Suggest a list of sites and we'll try to do it.  Arafat, we, as you are well
> aware, are very short-handed (even more so now that a few serious people
> seem to have been taken an unseasonal rest for some reason) and as such we
> not only need ideas such as the one you present above, but we need URLs
> and graphic work and content as well as a means to solidify such a campaign.
> 
> As noted, I've suggested a PR group and I put some thought into it and
> solicited others, yet nothing came of it - maybe the timing was wrong and
> now is a more opportune window to go after the same idea.  I kept screaming
> and yelling about going to one's university and telling professors and
> students alike about Linux and Arabeyes (Linux-Egypt had great success
> when they did this btw).  I've suggested a "Linux Day" at one's local
> educational facility (as a show-n-tell), yet that landed on deaf ears,
> etc, etc.
> 
> Are there people on this list (or you know of) now that would be willing
> to work on this subject (again, commitment and serious effort is key).
> 
> Salam.
> 
>  - Nadim
> 
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