The only thing that I can say is “Wow” and “amazing job!”. Both of those coming from the bottom of my heart. Thanks a lot to great team of Ain Shams University (Egypt), Al-Yamamah University (Saudi Arabia) and Kuwait University (Kuwait).

In the own words from the team:

We are very pleased to let you know that the Visual Studio 2010 documentation in the form of Translation Wiki has been released in Arabic to MSDN Library! It is a combination of human translation and machine translation content. We have worked on this release for very long, as for us in order to ship documentation into Arabic, we first had to make sure that the MSDN Library was bi-di complaint. I am very happy that now the Arabic developers can read Visual Studio documentation in MSDN Library in their native language! This project has been done in close collaboration with local communities, MSDN, and many people in the local offices in the Arabic region. The content has been translated by Ain Shams University (Egypt), Al-Yamamah University (Saudi Arabia) and Kuwait University (Kuwait).

Click here to go to the Arabic MSDN Library

In short: 17 cities in 15 countries till the end of 2010 and a few more in 2011. The main idea of Open Door events is to bring the best content of the biggest Microsoft international conferences (like TechEd and PDC) to the doors of local IT Professionals and Developers. Topics like Cloud, Office 2010 and Windows 7 best practices, Windows Phone and Web development and of course a deep look into server infrastructure – all that is going to be there.

Want to join? – save the date below!

Want to join as a speaker? – ping me by e-mail.

The list is in chronological order (some dates can change, but slightly):

1. Beirut, Lebanon, September 29-30 (Done!)
2. Tripoli, Libya, November 1
3. Cairo, Egypt, November 2-3 (Done!)
4. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 2-3 (Done!)
5. Karachi, Pakistan, November 4-5 (Done!)
6. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, November 7 (Done!)
7. Lagos, Nigeria, November, 23 & 25
8. Port Louis, Mauritius, December 1-2
9. Algiers , Algeria, December 5-6
10. Tunis, Tunisia, December 8-9
11. Nairobi, Kenya, December 8
12. Amman, Jordan, December 15-16
13. Casablanca, Morocco, December 14-15
14. Windhoek, Namibia, February 2011
15. Reunion, February 2011
16. Dakar, February 2011
17. Abidjan, Ivory Coast, February 2011

• Istanbul, Turkey, February 22-23

more cities will be covered in Jan-Jun 2011 (expanding Open Door events for Turkey and South Africa)

P.S. I can’t tell you for now, but there is going to be The Speaker you don’t want to miss. Stay tuned for who and where :)