Agreed wrt legal stuff but that is Syria and Iran mainly. KSA, UAE, Jordan should be no problem. First step is to focus on practical issues - localization. In parallel reach out to interested people/universities - maybe a POSSE in KSA or Dubai? Just brainstorming, though. Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: marketing-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <marketing-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base <marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tue Apr 06 03:58:03 2010 Subject: Re: Activities in KSA Hi Jan, I totally agree with you, but ... 1.) there were some barriers (legal and embargos) from E to MEA, 2.) the first step must be from the MEA region as well or should be bring something into the dust? because of not knowing infrastructure fo a county, people who needs AND want our help is very difficult. maybe a "You're interested in ..." - page could help to find the correct "first contact". All the best Gerold > All, > > I am right now in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in my role Red Hats Evangelist. It > seems there is virtually no Fedora community here. > > Am I missing something or do we need to change that? There definitely is a > lot of interest and some enthusiasm to build upon. Simple stuff like > better > localization, more comples stuff like having usergroups. > > So do we know of any work in the MEA area? Should we start focusing a bit > more on this area? > > Jan > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
