Hello Jan, I am happy that you will be focusing on the ME area. I am fedora ambassador located in Egypt I have conducted 6 fedora events during 2008 [1] and 2009. There's no legal issues dealing with fedora/redhat. the only thing that might take time is sending fedora swag as there is tariff and CD/DVD inspection (odd). The FOSS community is active in terms of creating events; when we have some place to host us. Unfortunately fedora doesn't capitalize huge user base, so people tend to distribute customizations of ubuntu instead of fedora. [2][3]. I wish if we can organize a fedora event for masses; it would be great as universities has a limited number of visitors. especially if the event was linked with JBoss, it would attract more audience. [1] http://fossology.net/taxonomy/term/6 , I didn't report 2009 events; I will do it soon ;). [2] http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/open-source-computing-masses [3] http://www.flickr.com/photos/maggieosama/sets/72157623638114083/ -- Diaa Radwan, RHCDS On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Jan Wildeboer <jwildebo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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
