Qatar is of real interest to me, as its investment in modern technology and in particular in Foss, is exciting and enormously promising. I met at Oscon last summer a representative of the government (a US citizen, actually, working in Qatar) who found the possibilities of OpenOffice.org quite interesting.... And I've been since trying to follow up.
Oman is also driving to use Foss and OpenOffice.org. And Egyptian polities have expressed real interest.
The desire is to unite the interests, focus on Arabic versions (OOo is in Arabic), and get local groups, part of the local polity, engaged in promoting the product and community and in developing local community engagement to make the effort sustainable.
No comments:
Post a Comment