On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 12:44:22PM -0400, dror1975@icqmail.com wrote:
It is important to note that we encountered this year unprecedented attempts to discourage people, particularly Arab people, from coming to the event. I don't blame anyone, and I respect the freedom of speech of everybody, but it is very hard to promote an event among Arabic-speaking people, when there are FaceBook groups and blogs, some of them initiated by Wikipedians, calling upon Arab people not to attend, and even spreading false information.
This is something I would like to counter, if possible.