This is the raw minutes I took of our first EGLUG meeting, it needs to be summerized in a proper report. From the agenda:

1.Working out the details of EGLUG courses at El Sakia: who teaches what when and to whom

• Sakia Membership (for who'll attend activities held there)
• Courses:
  • arius32 will start graphics courses in August
  • Try the courses on ourselves and friends in July, and do it on public in August
  • Sameh from CuLUG will organize a course with Khaled (instructors, times)
  • Khaled will advertize the courses on Sakia's mailing list (8000 members)
  • Participants in courses should pay Sakia's membership
• Weekly workshop:
  • kernel_canine has promised to giv a workshop on Firewalls next Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.
  • in case he can't do it he will hav to organize an alternative workshop by someone else
• Souk El Sakia on Fridays:
  • need 1 person to help with khaled
  • Distro CDs
  • need a free book to photocopy and sell
  • may b t-shirts, meddles
  • YoussefAssad and seek_the_reality promised to help with Khaled in Souk El Sakia next Friday (9 to 9)
• Weekly sessions (linux support + gathering):
  • make the gathering with a topic??
  • agreed to make it free topic
  • LI-6YLUCY has promised to be the facilitator of the day
  • Put a dedicated PC in Sakia for ppl who come and ask Khaled for support, so that they ask their questions on the forum
  • Advertizing for the weekly gathering/support on our mailing list, Sakia's mailing list
  • put the support questions on the forum to show the ppl how EGLUG operates
• Do or Die:
  • Translation, Bug hunting
  • Joker Prince has promised to be the facilitator for the next Do or Die, it will b translation of the document: From power-up to bash prompt, they will start at 10

2.Deciding on the Alexandria InstallFest; where and when?

• couldn't get Alex Library or Victoria college (needed tasree7 men wezaret al tarbeya wa al ta3leem)
• Mina will contact Motaz and talk with Abu Qeer Academy, will giv us feedback by the end of the week.
• Cvirus and kernel_canine will try to get tasree7 men wezaret al tarbeya wa al ta3leem, will giv us feedback by the end of the week.
• due to how busy we r, we'll leave this topic to the ppl looking for a suitable venue, when a venue is found all of us will focus on the fest

3.Improving cooperation with Linux-Egypt: how and why?

• Policy: we share goals, if they need help we should giv them, if we need help they should giv us
• we should document our experiences and share it with other LUGs and groups
• this should be the policy with any LUG or group in Egypt

4.Marketing EGLUG: how?

• we have 600 mailing lists/forums
• other groups we cooperate with (Sakia: activities, website, newsletter)
• Flyers in computer malls (list the shops on our website)
• Bumper stickers (can Alameya giv us an offer?)
• financing adverts by trivial fees taken for the courses (through el Sakia)
• put flyers in newspapers
• Sponsorship??

5.Improving access to Linux distros and linux books and other things.

• Goal: 1 new place per month for CDs (computer shops, internet cafes)
  • follow up on the latest releases (buy it from sakia or get it from our distributors list)
• put them on elwaseet
• Goal: 1 new place per month for books (3am sa3d, photocoping shops, bookshops)
  • print first copy (kernel_canine, Sakia)
• kernel_canine has promised to giv khaled a copy of the Open CD they had already arabized at work

6.The eglug.org website; challenges facing us, improvements needed, suggestions (and praise for Alaa, Manal, whirlpool, and ramez for their great work!)

• Editorial policy
• Simplification of the interface

7.Discussing and ratifying the EGLUG charter

• we will hav a poll on the approval of the charter on Tuesday

8.Discussing ideas for group work such as writing a book, translating tldp.org articles, etc. (brainstorming)

• Collaborative work on the website, anyone can start a project

Off Agenda:

• How to operate Linux Suppport Sessions (Q: How do I migrate my system to Linux)
  • Make a list of the ppl who want to work (as admins) or can give Linux support (payed)
• Discuss Linux curriculum on the forum
• we need to look on the possibility of translating Rute (chapter by chapter for example)
• Legal questions:
  • What the egyptian laws say about publishing material licensed under the GPL?
  • What the egyptian laws say about leasing our own material under the GPL?
  • Free legal support at HMLC (Hisham Mubarak Law Center)
• MENGOS
  • 3 workshops on free software targeting NGOs 12 to 14 July, 19 to 21 July and 2 to 4 August from 9 to 4
  • EGLUG will give a session on Linux
  • we need volunteers to giv these sessions
• points raised by kernel_canine
  • Why do we do face to face support?
  • Consultancy on EGLUG
  • why r we using drupal
• Promoting Linux and Free Software
  • In universities (in semisters)
  • In small businesses
  • see action plan and open discussion
  • Poll: which university u r in?, the we choose a coordinator for each university
• Cross announcements between EGLUG and CuLUG, cross RSS feed
• Developers oriented activities:
  • a subgroup??
  • Programming on one of the weekly workshops

Who attended the meeting:

1. Alaa
2. MohammedSameer
3. Whirlpool
4. YoussefAssad
5. Manal
6. Dr Marlyn Tadrus (MENGOS)
7. amg
8. SamehRagheb
9. soppy_boy
10. magdon
11. mina ramses (mina_r_Tux?)
12. Login
13. Copelt (new member who came by accident ;-)
14. mvlinux
15. khaled
16. ahmed
17. CVirus
18. ADminS
19. DarKnesS_Wolf
20. mildewy
21. BooDy
22. Pronco
23. Rocket_Lancher
24. seek_the_reality
25. ahmadtarek
26. samersarhan
27. Joker Prince
28. robertoramsis
29. ramez.hanna
30. LI-6YLUCY
31. phaeronix
32. DJ KING
33. kernel_canine
34. ShErbO
35. Khaled Mohsen (Sakia)
36. Ayman Noubi (Sakia)
37. samah johnson