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[Zita Wenzel]

Mohammed,

Do you mean the web site or the contents of the second paragraph?

Do we have working groups on the latter?  How should we proceed?

Zita

mohammed bashir sani wrote:
> Yes I agree and I think that is the best way towards attracting people 
> who share the same or similar interests.
> Bashir
> 
>  
> On 5/9/07, *Zita Wenzel* <zita at psg.com <mailto:zita at psg.com>> wrote:
> 
>     [Apologies for duplicates]
> 
>     Dear All,
> 
>     Welcome to the AfREN mailing list.  This is the completion of one
>     action
>     item of this year's meeting.  Success!  The next item is the AfREN web
>     site.  Currently, the presentations from April 28 and 29 have been
>     posted to afnog.org/afren <http://afnog.org/afren> (and there has
>     been discussion about that
>     already).  We probably need our own web site.  There is an oil company,
>     Afren, that holds the afren.com <http://afren.com>, afren.org
>     <http://afren.org>, and afren.net <http://afren.net> domain names.
>     What name should we get?  afren.ng?  Please reply and make suggestions.
> 
>     At the beginning of the meeting, the issues raised were finding classes
>     via AfREN and sharing information, power problems and solutions,
>     content
>     for users, bandwidth and fiber, policies, lobbying together, and
>     building NRENs.  At the end of the meeting, our interests were strategic
>     planning, capacity building, education, communication, and lobbying.  We
>     believe that "if you build it they will come" and to evaluate the users'
>     needs afterwards.  Do you agree?
> 
>     Zita
> 
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