[leglug-users] IT Day idea

[Alaa Salman]

Hey guys,

Sorry about the delay. Busy times.

I think i made my position and interest quite clear during the last meeting.
I also believe in the "More Action, Less Words" attitude.

In regards to the topics, i expressed my concern over these suggested topics
and instead recommended we stick with Free/Open Source software and
principles and how they relate to a country like Lebanon in the relevant
context of business and IT. But like i said, thats just my personal opinion
so let's see how/where this goes.



On Nov 26, 2007 7:31 PM, Haytham KHOUJA <haytham at khouja.net> wrote:

>  Hello all,
> On our 2-3 last LEGLUG meetings, we discussed the idea of hosting an IT
> day event in Beirut. This has been in my head for quite some time and i
> promised i would talk about it and brainstorm with you guys on the mailing
> list. This is a strictly "Draft/Brainstorming" place for this idea.
> This is just a start, i'll be responsible of organizing this thread and
> send a bi-daily/weekly summary of all the ideas pointed and agreed
> (Depending on the traffic of this thread).
> If you feel that you can participate in the organization of such event,
> please reply to this thread by just stating "Hey, i can help". You will be
> able to promote your assistance in a later stage.
>
> Please share your ideas, but make sure you add your name before your
> comments in this format:
>     1) Idea Number 1
>         [Haytham] This idea is not so great, i'd rather go with foobar's
> ideas bla bla bla
>           [Kamal] No, Haytham does the cha-cha, bla bla bla
>              [Hisham] Meeow!
>                 [Kamal] and the tango!
>
> I remember that Alaa Salman was very much interested -- mark --
> So my ideas are the following:
>
>    - a 1-2 days event with major sponsors, venue(s), guests, speakers
>     - Example of topics/events/guest speakers:
>       - I.T in Lebanon + Management
>        - ADSL service in Lebanon
>       - Ogero's plans for the future
>       - Lebanese .gov, we can invite Marwan Hmede and Ghenwa Jaloul
>       to answer questions
>        - Introduction of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority
>       (TRA) and what does it do and what are it's authorities over DSPs/ISPs/GSM
>       operators
>        - Ripe Community and the RIPE NCC since Lebanon deals with
>       RIPE NCC for IPv4/v6 assignment (ripe.net)
>       - Menog, The Middle East Network Operators Group which is a
>       regional forum offering network engineers and other technical staff the
>       opportunity to share knowledge and experiences and identify areas for
>       regional corporation (menog.net)
>       - LEGLUG can promote Linux/GNU products
>       - Oracle/Cisco/Microsoft people talking about the latest in
>       their products
>       - Formatech/New Horizons can put stands, give discounts
>       - Big development companies can talk about their market in the
>       gulf and can guide/direct students for their choice of courses to take,
>       programing languages to learn etc...
>       - ISP/DSPs can talk about their infrastructures
>       - VoIP and IP telephony (Carriers)
>       - Arabeyes.org
>        - High Availability Facebook/MySPACE/Wikipedia
>        - ....the ideas are endless
>        - Place LAU/AUB/Biel/UNESCO/Virgin/Forum de Beyrouth/Hotels,
>    anyways, somewhere big, with good location
>     - It can also be incorporated within Termium 2007 (IF its gonna
>    happen), or during the same week
>
> Good luck to us all!
> --
>  Sincerely,
> *Haytham KHOUJA*
>  <http://www.facebook.com/people/Haytham_EL-KHOUJA/566465455>
>
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-- 
Regards,
Alaa Salman
"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then
you will see how low it was." ---Dag Hammarskjold
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