Welcome to The Egyptian GNU/Linux Users Group (EGLUG)

About EGLUG

EGLUG exists to serve the Egyptian Free/Open Source Community.

This is a short introduction of what EGLUG and the EGLUG website offers.

you can find out more about EGLUG and its activities at the about page.

EGLUG is a democratic community make sure to understand the rules of the community, the rules where choosen by the EGLUG members themselves, if you don't agree with some of the rules you can suggest changes and ammendments.

EGLUG Website Sections and Services

EGLUG organizes alot of activities and events all over the country, visit the events section to keep up with upcoming events, you can also check our event calendar and browse back to older events, you can also organize or help in organizing events yourself, all EGLUG events are organized in an open process here on the website and are implemented by volunteers free of charge.

to keep up with EGLUG news visit the news section on the front page, the news section mentions EGLUG major activities and sometimes mentions important FOSS rleated news stories.

EGLUG members wrote or translated articles that are of value to new and expert FOSS users, you can read them at the articles section, please help by contributing to the article section yourself.

If you ahve any questions about GNU/Linux, FOSS or EGLUG itself you can ask them at the forums, activities and decisions are also discussed on the forums.

We also have a Wiki a Wiki is a website that anyone can edit and add information to, our wiki is used to collect knowledge from all our members, new Articles are drafted and edited on the Wiki before they move to the article section, and the wiki is also used to draft new rules and policies, EGLUG material that is used in events, and sometimes used to organize events, the WIKI thrives on contributions by all members, if you learn anything about FOSS please share it with us in the WIKI, if you see a mistake in an existing WikiPage or if you think you can make it look better please edit it (note the EDIT tablike link at the top of each wiki page).

sometimes we have important pages we put links to them in the icon bar of the left, for instance the Get GNU/Linux link lists people and shops that provide GNU/Linux cds or those who can't download them, please take a few moments to check all these links, and don't hesitate to suggest new useful pages.

Difficult words, abbriviations and words with unusual meaning will be highlighted if you hover your mouse over them you'll see an explanation of these difficult words, if you find words or expressions that you don't post a comment asking for clarifications, the word will be added to our glossary

Contributing to EGLUG Website

to contribute content ot EGLUG on the Forums, the Wiki or the Article section you can use HTML or WikiSyntax, WikiSyntax is a simplified syntax that is easy to learn, easy to edit yet allows us to create consistent looking content in no time, please check our WikiSyntax tutorial.

an easy way to contribute to EGLUG is by Writing short reviews of FOSS software you rely on or enjoy using, use the create content link from the main navigation menu on the right then choose review article.

You can also share with us ScreenShots of your GNU/Linux dekstop, or artwork and background you created yourself, use the create content link from the main navigation menu on the right then choose image and make sure to choose the correcr gallery for your image.

You might have noticed how important the main navigation menu is, please explore all its options.

The EGLUG website is implemented using The Drupal Content Management System if you want to help with the technical details of the EGLUG website you have to learn Drupal.

please note that any contributions you share with us become community property, you don't own or control these contributions they belong to everyone on EGLUG, don't get upset when others modify and build on your contributions or use them in their FOSS related work, this is the nature of FOSS.

Keeping up with the EGLUG website

Since the EGLUG website has many sections it can be difficult to keep track of new content and changes, here are several methods to help you keep up with updates in EGLUG:

• The recent posts link from the navigation menu on the right is probably the most important link of all, it shows all the new and updated content in all sections and displayes the new comments.
• ever major part of EGLUG has RSS feeds to help you keep track of changes, use an RSS aggregator to subscribe to our feeds
  • EGLUG News Feed
  • Article Section Feed
  • EGLUG events feed
• The Right Side area has listings of new content that can help you keep up it includes
  • a List of new forum topics and forum topics that had new replis recently
  • a list of new articles
  • a list of upcoming events
  • the latest news headlines from FOSS related websites
  • The latest opinion poll or decision vote
  • Information about use of GNU/Linux in Egypt according to the Linux Counter and please consider adding yourself to the counter
• you can keep track of comments on content or forum questions you created by visiting your account page (link from the main navigation menu on the right) then click on the track tab above.
• you can get notifications of changes, new content or new comments by email if you like through the subscription feature
  • if you find pages you are interested in and want to keep track of comments posted on that page click on the subscribe post link.
  • visit the subscriptions link from the main navigation menu on the right to manage all your subscriptions
  • From the subscriptions page you can subscribe to all pages that belong to a certain category, this will inform you about new content in this category and new comments.

Regular Meetings

EGLUG members meet every week at The Sawy Cultural Center (aka Al Sakia), this is an open gathering the main purpose is to allow anyone to visit the group and ask any questions they have about GNU/Linux, FOSS or EGLUG, you can also play and experiment with the GNU/Linux pcs in the IBM lab there, people who need help installing or configuring GNU/Linux on their computers can bring their pcs to the gathering.
so if you are new comer we will be so happy to help you
and if you are expert why don't you come and help us?
the gatherings are every saturday from 3pm to 7pm, I want to see you there next saturday!

Chatting

EGLUG members meet regularly at the IRC channel #eglug on the irc.freenode.org network, please join us if you want realtime answers to your FOSS related questions or if you just want to chat and socialize with like minded people, you can learn more about irc from our IRC/Xchat howto
_NOTE_:Coming to our IRC room is not an execuse to don't come the next Al Sakia meeting!

Partners

Al Sakia is one of our partners, EGLUG works with partners to realize projects and activities, if you know of any organizations that are interested in FOSS and GNU/Linux please tell us about them, we are always seeking new partners.

EGLUG has organized many seminars and training courses inside universities and academic institutes, if you want EGLUG to visit your institute or college please open a dicussion about it in the forums

HELP US

If you have_ any ideas about our fourm come and help us to make it better.
as you can see we make a big effort to support our favorite OS (linux).
so if you love linux as we do,come and be one of us
If you don't know linux, come to our meeting. let us show you the true meaning of freedom!
If you are linux user, come and help the others to be linux.
if you had a bad experiance with linux disscues it with us.

Just come, We want you with us