Hello Faisal and Fadi, That is great to hear.
It would be ideal to organize any type of event to increase public exposure and awareness to FLOSS. I think every one would be excited to help out in setting up this workshop. Would it be open for every one? or just for the technical and business crowd? Regards, - Kefah. 2010/4/23 Al-Faisal El-Dajani <[email protected]> > Hello all, > > I was in a meeting with the Royal Scientific Society (RSS) a couple of days > ago, and they want to hold a two day open source workshop in late september. > The meeting was attended by the head of the computer department in the RSS, > professors from princess sumaya university for technology, jordan > university, and university of philadelphia, two companies from the private > sector (one deals in natural language processing, the other in web based > technologies), fellow lugger Fadi Kahhaleh, and myself. > As you can see, the meeting held people from different sides of the > industry, and there was genuine interest by all parties to see this thing > happen as best as possible. > > I was asked to join because of my involvement in open source as well as my > connection with the local LUG. I will be acting as liaison to help > facilitate the flow of ideas. > > Currently, we are trying to define the focus of the workshop, and what > topics should be covered. Some areas of interest that were proposed include > e-government, private sector involvement with open source, and exposing > final year students in universities to alternative technologies. Open source > as an integral part of an IT infrastructure is also a very important topic. > > Nothing is set in stone yet, so if you have any ideas about what I just > said, or even something that I did not mention, please reply with your > comments. > > -- > Al-Faisal El-Dajani > 10/6 > > -- > ### Jordan Linux Users Group ### > http://Jolug.org/ > http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug > > ### Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team ### > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JordanTeam > http://lists.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-jo > > ### Ojuba Linux ### > http://ojuba.org/ > > ### Jordan PHP ### > http://groups.google.com/group/JoPHP -- Kefah T. Issa >/. freesoft "free as in freedom." tel. +962 6 55 23 967 cell. +962 777 80 90 50 -- ### Jordan Linux Users Group ### http://Jolug.org/ http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug ### Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team ### https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JordanTeam http://lists.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-jo ### Ojuba Linux ### http://ojuba.org/ ### Jordan PHP ### http://groups.google.com/group/JoPHP
