Hello, guys. That`s an excellent proposal. Welcome to the community. +1 from me. :) I`ll contact you off list to get set up.
Jim S. Hakim Hamdani [ML] wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to propose an OSUG for Kabul, Afghanistan. It could be called > "Kabul OpenSolaris User Group" or "Afghanistan OpenSolaris User Group". > We don't want to lay claim to the whole country, but I'm pretty sure > there's no-one apart from us who does UNIX here. > > The initial participants of the OSUG are Abdullah Ghaznawi, Said Adil > Hashemi and myself, Said Hakim Hamdani. We all work at the same place > (http://www.medical-kabul.com/) and since I brought OpenSolaris with me > to Afghanistan, I was able to get both of them interested enough that > they are going to make their systems dual-boot with OpenSolaris and > WinXP (right now I'm waiting for b103 media to arrive from Germany, we > have no bandwidth to speak of here, so it's snail-mail). > > Only I have an OpenSolaris user ID, it's "hakimoto". Since Adil and > Abdullah bug me with questions when they can't figure things out, they > don't have IDs at the moment but I have told them that OpenSolaris.org > is a nice place to hang out. > > We are located in Kabul, Afghanistan and as far as I know we're the > only Solaris users around. The computing infrastructure in Afghanistan > is still pretty much in its infancy and I am doing what I can to get > people to try out UNIX (best of Solaris of course) and use it for their > daily computing tasks. There's some Linux around here, but I'm not too > fond of that and having seen a single (!) copy of Solaris 10 in the > software market the other day, I sat down with Abdullah and Adil and we > decided to try and get people more interested in OpenSolaris. > > In the very near future we'll thus have four machines running > OpenSolaris. One laptop, one 6 GHz monster workstation and two lesser > workstations. Especially the laptop attracts attention from a lot of > people because it was custom-built and has a "Solaris" key instead of a > "Windows" key and it's well obvious that it's running something other > than Windows. So people ask and I try to convert! :D > > We hope to be able to spread some UNIX in this city and whilst it may > be a long shot, I personally hope to establish some kind of relation > with the Kabul University ICT department to get them to consider > teaching some UNIX to their students via OpenSolaris. > > It's all still pretty much at the beginning stage, but we're hopeful! > > Thanks to all who will help us get this OSUG approved! > > Best wishes from Kabul, > > Hakim, Adil and Abdullah > > -- http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/
