Moulin in Wikimaina 2008
Bassem JARKAS
Hello Friends,
I was in Alexandria 2 weeks ago to attend the Wikimania 2008. many thanks to Kunnafoni who helped me to attend this event. It was a wonderful conference, where i met a lot of people interested by moulin and offline wikpedia.
I distributed there about 500 CDs of Arabic version of Moulin. and also i printed 1000 flyers with moulin logo and short description about the project in Arabic, English and French. I have tried to save(as much as i can) some for you, I'll send it soon (sorry i couldn't save a lot). i distributed most of the CDs in the conference, and left about 100 CDs in Bibliotheca Alexandrina with the volunteers.
People and Organizations i met who are interested in the Moulin project:
- SJ from OLPC project: we worked on modifying the Arabic Moulin to run on XO, it was great to show the visitors the power of moulin with XO laptop in Arabic.
- people from the universities who want to distribute moulin to the students.
- UNDP Egypt: they want to cooperate with moulin project to spread the knowledge.
- I've been interviewed with many Arabic press agencies, that give us chance to let Arab world know more about the project.
- Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization, they want to build free Arabic encyclopedia based on mediawiki engine, and they are interested in making offline version with moulin's code.
- Lars Aronsson (user:LA2), he suggested to sell moulin to the national library of Sweden with high price. (i don't know if that is possible...)
if you want to see some photos from the event: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jarkas/sets/72157606499465696/detail/
It was great event, and i hope it will help both moulin project and the Arabic content to be stronger. Again, Kunnafoni, thank you very much.
P.S.: a lot of people ask about the updates...
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