[General] OSKW Con

[Ahmad Al-Ibrahim]

Glad to see that much of interest from OSKW community to OSKW Con idea.

Discussing the details in meeting as Bu Rashed suggested is the next
thing to do.

If anyone in the list is interested to participate in organizing OSKW
Con, kindly send the dates of availability for the times between 7:30PM
to 10:00PM in the following format with A for available, N/A for not
available:

Sat Oct 10: A
Sun Oct 11: A
Mon Oct 12: A
Tue Oct 13: A
Wed Oct 14: A
Thu Oct 15: N/A
Fri Oct 16: N/A
Sat Oct 17: A
Sun Oct 18: A
Mon Oct 19: A
Tue Oct 20: A
Wed Oct 21: A
Thu Oct 22: N/A
Fri Oct 23: N/A
Sat Oct 24: A
Sun Oct 25: A

The meeting should be at least 1 week away form today to give a chance
for everyone to prepare ideas, and reply to this email, and get others
involved.

Keep the discussion going in the mailing list.

Regards,

Ahmad Al-Ibrahim

Bashar Al-Abdulhadi wrote:
> Dear Ahmad and All,
> 
> 
> This is great opportunity to organize such event and Masha'allah i see
> many are interested to participate from all angles of the IT community.
> 
> 
> Additionally having it surely needs a push from both Local and
> International aspects such as having big players in opensource such as
> Red Hat when it come to Linux for example.
> 
> 
> As Talal has mentioned we do need Media sponsor and support from both
> Government and NGOs (non-government organizations) such as CAIT
> <http://www.cait.gov.kw>, KSE <http://www.kse.org.kw>, KITS
> <http://www.kits.org.kw> and last but not least as Saleh has mention
> Universities! i do believe that both Students and Staff in Science and
> Engineering can add great value to the event.
> 
> 
> as BuRashed (Faisal) has mentioned lets have a meeting and start
> discussing it after few emails brainstorming to see whom interested to
> be a part of the organizing committee.
> 
> 
> Speaking of meetings, i have been asked many times from many members to
> restart our weekly meeting that we used to have a KITS maybe this
> meeting can be a restart of the weekly or monthly gathering :)
> 
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Bashar
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Saleh Al-Saffar wrote, On 10/01/2009 11:42 PM:
> 
>> Hello,
>>  
>> I'd be happy to help promoting it to Engineering and Science colleges
>> in Kuwait University as I'm the chairman of ACM Student Chapter and
>> Vice President of DotNet Club.
>>  
>> Regards,
>> Saleh
>>  
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 04:28:19 +0800
>> From: kuwait at q8net.com
>> To: general at oskw.org
>> Subject: Re: [General] OSKW Con
>>
>>
>> How about a meeting to discuss this?
>>
>>
>> --- On *Thu, 1/10/09, Ahmad Al-Ibrahim /<ahmad at koutbo6.com>/* wrote:
>>
>>
>>     From: Ahmad Al-Ibrahim <ahmad at koutbo6.com>
>>     Subject: [General] OSKW Con
>>     To: "General OpenSource Discussion" <general at oskw.org>
>>     Date: Thursday, 1 October, 2009, 14:59
>>
>>     Salam,
>>
>>     This is a call for organizing OSKW Con, a yearly event that gathers
>>     people interested in Open Source in Kuwait to share their
>>     experience and
>>     knowledge, and encourage others to use Open Source technologies. I'm
>>     sure many of us could help either by participating in organizing the
>>     event or by sharing their open source knowledge and experience through
>>     the conference talks.
>>
>>     We could start from this mailing list, and the people around us,
>>     to form
>>     the organizing committee that will be responsible for OSKW Con
>>     organization.
>>
>>     Event organization includes:
>>     Call for talk proposals and accept/deny talks
>>     Set event dates and time
>>     Set the Location and prepare the equipments for the event
>>     Get Sponsorships from interested parties
>>     Promote the event to other organizations to invite people
>>     Cooperate with Media for PR work and to cover the event
>>
>>     Thoughts?
>>
>>     Regards,
>>
>>     Ahmad Al-Ibrahim
>>
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