[DDN] promoting FOSS in Arab region

[J Cravens]

The UNESCO office in Rabat has just launched a listserv to discuss 
the Miftaah project aiming at promotion of free and open source 
software (FOSS) in the Arab Region.

This list will allow the developers' community from the Maghreb, 
involved in the Miftaah project, to share information and to discuss 
issues related to the project and the promotion of free software. 
Several institutions are partners in the Miftaah project, in 
particular the Mohammedia School of Engineering, Morocco, and the 
Research Centre on Scientific and Technical Information (CERIST), 
Algeria.

With the help of this listserv, researchers and students will be able 
to work in a network and to create a real online FOSS community. The 
aim of this mailing list is to facilitate the exchange of 
information, to provide solutions to problems and to share experience 
during the development of Miftaah. It is used as common tool of 
communication by the community and any individual and/or organization 
with an interest in this project.

Miftaah is a project for the development and promotion of FOSS in the 
Arab region through an online community of practice composed by 
several university institutions. The project consists of assembling 
and readapting a package of high quality free open source software in 
three languages (Arabic, French and English) and disseminating it in 
Arab countries on USB keys.

For more information, contact Jaco du Toit, UNESCO Office in Rabat
j.dutoit at unesco.org

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