Re: Mentorship program

[Muhammad Alkarouri <malkarouri at yahoo dot co dot uk>]

On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 18:29 +0300, Samy Al Bahra wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 15:40 +0100, Muhammad Alkarouri wrote:
[...]
> > I am wondering what will go into OAO and what will be Arabeyes area.
> > IIRC, openarabia is an 'all-out' open source place, for everything open
> > source, including LUGs activities, communities, general portal. Arabeyes
> > will still do development/translation, right? So, does mentoring, which
> > is linked to cvs committing, and participating in Arabeyes projects,
> > belong to OAO?
> 
> I would give out a screenshot, but that would ruin the surprise :D
> Basically, OpenArabia's front-page statement is:
> 
> The Middle East has been lacking in true innovation not for a year or
> two, but for hundreds of years. In today's world, the innovation of
> peoples is driven by the technology that is provided to them. Even
> there, the region lacks the appropriate technology. Open-source software
> has been a medium for innovation for over 30 years, OpenArabia.org hopes
> to provide the appropriate open-source resources for the wide-range of
> audience of the region. This includes but is not limited to desktop
> users, software developers, graphics designers and more. 
> 
> ---
> 
> This will include monthly lectures (if not bi-monthly or similar) from
> various prominent open-source developers on a range of topics, a LUG
> database, a software database and so on. The feature list will be shown
> off once I am ready to go beta.

Well, looks like a good surprise is coming. And you know what you are
doing.
I am looking forward to it.

Salam,
Muhammad Alkarouri