Muslim American Society - New Jersey

Assalamu `alaykum,
  I created this group so that we can easily share information about testing the website. Feel free to post any entries you feel are useful. Explore the site and get familiar. Click on Read More to see the rest of this article.

Assalamu `alaykum,

  Have a look, this may interest some of you or someone you know:

Mazen Mokhtar

Qatar University announces its Arabic for Non-Native Speakers Program.

If you are 18-40 years old and need to learn Arabic, don't miss this opportunity, which includes:

1-Learn Arabic for Free at Qatar University
2-Free airline ticket
3-Free Housing

For more information and to apply, visit Qatar's University website:
http://www.qu.edu.qa/students/services/is/arabic_program.php

Deadline to apply is May 31st.

Our GA meeting is on March 14th at 6:30pm in the MAS office. Please click Here for all the interesting details.

Assalamu `alaykum,

  In a recent MAS Youth Exec meeting we discussed the need for a place where news from around the world is filtered and relevant articles (be they news of perspective) are posted.

  I would like to announce the experimental “News and Views” section of the http://masnj.org. There, important news from around the world and perspective will be posted regularly inshaa Allah. This section is still experimental, its name and function are may change.

  You can visit the blog at http://masnj.org/site/groups/news-and-views. If you use an RSS reader, you can subscribe to it at http://masnj.org/site/groups/news-and-views/feed.

  Please feel free to post comments on the articles. You can comment on the whole concept by posting a comment to this article.

Assalamu `alaykum,

Mazen Mokhtar

I've been thinking about my Halaqa for a while. I have a group of youth, and I want to keep them interested. Does anyone have good ideas for keeping the Halaqa interesting?

RS

Assalamu `alaykum,

  We have updated the MAS-NJ website from Drupal version 6.6 to 6.7. This fixes a security problem and is more stable.

  I think we are ready to start using the website officially, what do you think?

Mazen Mokhtar

Assalamu `alaykum,

  Please help us test the site and give us feedback. A special thanks to Dr. Safaa and Anas for being the most active testers on the site. Here are a few things to do:

1. Go to your account, and fill your introduction (ta`aruf), and other information. It's a good way to get to know each other.
2. Upload a picture for yourself. For those who wish to upload a picture of their children, or of themselves sleeping, we'll create a picture area inshaa'allah, but it's nice to have a clear identification picture if at all possible.
3. Please get familiar with the site. We want to test membership payments, event registration and donations next. Let's get this phase of testing done as soon as possibe.
4. Send me all feedback you think is useful. Create posts, comment on posts...

Mazen Mokhtar

Assalamu `alaykum,

  Our favorite site keeps on getting better. I think we may be ready to start using the site normally. Here are the latest changes:

1. Group members now receive Email notifications! Isn'nt that fantabulous?
2. Users receive HTML Email
3. The Navigation menu (on the left) is now a dynamic menu that opens and closes without refreshing the page
4. There is now a top menu with the most essential links
5. When users sign up, there were duplicate first name and last name fields, I removed the duplicates
6. I added a contact phone number, gender and an introductory paragraph
7. I rearranged the menus to be more logical
8. You can turn off the Email notification

Mazen Mokhtar

Alright site testers, it's time we start getting serious. I'd like people to try and give feedback on the following:

Assalamu `alaykum,
 
  I installed and configured a new editor. This one should be easier to use than what we had before. This solves the problem that was causing some pages to freeze.
 
 
Assalamu `alaykum,
 
Mazen Mokhtar