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FOSS in the Arab World...

February 5, 2009 by RootSpaceOnline

Just went to an interesting gathering of universities from around the Arab World, working on the seeds of a project (Ma3bar) to promote FOSS in the region...  was a very interesting gathering, with people from Qatar, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Sudan, Tunisia, Kuwait.  Program was at Balamand University in north Lebanon, and supported by UNESCO and ICTDAR. It was a great gathering, some very bright people working on very interesting projects throughout the region.  I'll add updates with more info later, but for now, some interesting resources...

http://www.iosn.net/
http://www.ictdar.org/English.htm

And of course, we are working on organizing the OpenSesame BarCamp-Lebanon... first BarCamp in the Arab World, as far as we know... ;-)

http://barcamp.org/OpenSesame+BarCamp-Lebanon

 

Cheers!

DMN

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glad to read about it! it's

August 26, 2009 by hitcliff (not verified), 2 years 23 weeks ago
Comment id: 210

glad to read about it! it's high time smth should be done in this sphere concerning Arab world. have read a lot on the topic at different blogs and books (download mainly from http://www.picktorrent.com but this piece really gives food for thought

FOSS?? really?

May 22, 2009 by Fadi (not verified), 2 years 36 weeks ago
Comment id: 42

Free and open source software is a good idea, however... a different abbreviation should be used around the Arab world

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