Re: open source presentation

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Omar Abo-Namous <merlin12345 at gmx dot de> wrote:
> 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..

We have a couple of presentations already that you can tap into and use
as a template (we're also working on updating them and adding more recent
info).  Take a quick peek at the 'Introductory Material' on Arabeyes'
"About" [1] page to see what I mean.

> 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..

There are a number of issue within the Quran project that require
immediate attention (missing Unicode characters, getting proper
authentication for the data, getting proper authenticated translations,
etc) - those are all areas to talk about.

> if course the mosque would compensate for the costs (driving..), until 
> 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).

I'm not sure anyone will be able to do for ya so I highly recommend you
take this task upon yourself and some of us can help with the presentation
to better tailor it to your audience, vision and demands.

[1] http://www.arabeyes.org/about.php

Salam.

 - Nadim



		
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