Re: I'm a key speaker at Tech Conference

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

Tom, I'm forwarding your email to Arabeyes' "general" mailing-list to
solicit comments (yeah, I know I'm very late in doing this and that is
why I always ask people not to mail me directly and instead mail arabeyes'
mailing-lists -- better late than never I guess :-) 

Regards,

 - Nadim

--- Tom Adelstein <tadelste at users dot sourceforge dot net> wrote:
> I have found you through Arabeyes. I am speaking at a
> conference on open source in the middle east.  Here is a
> post I made to the Ubuntu users mailing list.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Hello all -
> 
> I'm scheduled to go to the middle-east this summer and speak
> to an open source conference with mainly government
> officials in attendance. I'll provide more information on
> that. I hope to distribute Ubuntu CD's at the conference. In
> one talk, I'll be building a computer from scratch and
> installing Ubuntu on it. I think that will be exciting for
> the attendees. 
> 
> So, I want to do some articles about governments using Linux
> - outside the United States. So if anyone has any cases they
> can share with me, I would be so pleased. I'm looking for
> Linux used in Arabic speaking countries. Farsi and Urdu will
> also work.
> 
> I would like to present the case studies and will accept
> papers for that purpose. Also, information about open source
> activities, distributions, user groups, etc. will help.
> 
> Any advice related to speaking to a conference in the middle
> east will help also. 
> 
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> 
> My sponsors include the United Nations, USAID and a
> Government in the Middle East.
> 
> Do you have any advice? Can I do anything for you?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Tom

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