Ubuntu-Arabic

[Nizar Kerkeni]

Salam everybody,
When we discussed the creation of the arabic team, the idea was to  
build a "meta-team" regrouping all active arabic LoCos. Starting from  
this, each arabic LoCo will have some members to be active in the  
arabic team. Unfortunately, actually we have only one arabic approved  
LoCo, the Tunisian LoCo wich I'm from, and I don't know any more about  
others arabic LoCo. What I know is that Jad was active in the Jordan  
LoCo, that there is some members in the Egypt LoCo, that the Morocco  
Loco also have some active members and that the Algerian LoCo try to  
work hard to be approved.
The aim of the arabic team was to centralize support and help in  
arabic to all arabic speakers. To achieve this goal a core members was  
needed, and in the beginig we was 3, Jad, Rafik and me. From the  
beginning I refused any responsibility in the arabic team because I  
was fully devoted to the YOUNG Tunisian LoCo which need a lot of  
attention and work. Both Jad and Rafik worked in the team, but the  
work stopped.
I think that what we need now, is to know if we can find some arabic  
active members to build a core team working in the arabic team and  
it's related projects.
Best regards.


Quoting Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach at ubuntu.com>:

> Hello everybody,
>
> thanks for CCing me, Jad.
>
> Am Samstag, den 10.10.2009, 15:36 +0300 schrieb Jad at Ubuntu.com:
>> 2009/10/9 Anwar Mohammed <zero-n at hotmail.com>:
>> > Ubuntu-arabic is a great idea instead of having ( Sudan-Team ,   
>> Jordan-Team ,
>> > Tunisi-Team , etc ...) why we don't have arabic team cause we all  
>>  are arabic
>> > people. i think that you have suggested this idea to arabic teams  
>>  is ubuntu
>> > but i didn't go far ( correct me if i am wrong ) , so you have the
>> > experience to deal with this issue. i am a Ubuntu newbie i use since 8.04
>> > but i think that i could help so i am with you in this and i think we can
>> > make it this time.
>
> I agree that having an Ubuntu Arabic team is a great idea and that a lot
> of coordination can certainly happen on that level. It's important that
> across teams we share ideas and best practices.
>
> On the other hand there definitely is a need for local teams that can
> organise local events and serve as a local contact for people from the
> area.
>
> For example am I an active member of the Ubuntu Berlin team that runs
> fairly well and organises lots of events. Lots of members of the Berlin
> team actively participate in the German LoCo team which gets a lot of
> stuff done on the country-wide level.
>
> To sum up, I'd encourage as much coordination and communication across
> teams as possible, but I wouldn't stop anybody from forming a local
> community (which can be a city team) because these "leaf nodes" are very
> important and most likely the best go-to point for new Ubuntu users.
>
> Have a great day,
>  Daniel
>
>



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Nizar Kerkeni
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