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Submitted by ShErbO on Sun, 03/10/2004 - 17:59.
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It all started 3 days ago, when linuxawy was showing Abdallah - his neighbour - Mandrake 10.1 with xfce4 desktop. Abdallah was interested, being a former windows user - he loved the eye candy without the sluggishness of windows. linuxawy wanted to impress him more, so he showed him phaeronix 0.77. He got really impressed by the concept of LiveCDs. It was the first time he'd seen a real linux system in action.

Abdallah was full of enthusiasm, linuxawy told him about eglug's activities so he wanted to help. Abdallah is an engineering student, 4th year in AIT (Alexandria Institute of Technology). He talked with Dr. Ayman Shawky (head of continuing education & training center), who got interested about the whole thing.

The following day, the 3 of us (ShErbO, Linuxawy & Abdallah) went to AIT. Abdallah introduced us to Dr. Ayman, who was friendly and hospitable. We told him a little about FOSS, concentrating on the GNU/Linux O/S while showing some key points in the GPL license. We also told him about eglug and spoke to him about the various LUG activites.

We asked him if we could hold a seminar about Linux, but he told us we'd rather arrange a short introductory course straight ahead, to get interested people to attend. He asked us to prepare the course schedule, and a banner ad to announce the course. All he needed was permission from the dean. He'd allow us access to one of the computer labs for the few days of this short course.

Dr. Ayman is now awaiting our course schedule to discuss it with the management. We're now in a hurry to get the whole thing done before Ramadan, more importantly before the computer lab gets busy with other courses. We'll do our best.

ShErbO, linuxawy & DarKneSs_WolF will be teaching, it's going to be a 3-day 2-hour course.

! Our suggested course outline: Day 1: Intro + Installation.
Day 2: CLI Basics.
Day 3: Applications & Open Discussion.

The course details will depend mostly on the level of our audience and their interaction with us, which we'll sense in the first course day. Any hints/suggestions about the course are welcome, please wish us good luck :)

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very good
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Submitted by Alaa on Sun, 03/10/2004 - 18:25.

keep us updated with news.

and thank for telling the whole story in details maybe this will help others realize how easy it is to promote GNU/Linux and start EGLUG activity initiatives.

I've found it very easy to convince egyptians of the ideals of FOSS the difficult part is getting over the laziness and apathy and getting them to do something about it.

please Alex team try to include the zombies that live in your city in this, maybe you'll bring them back to life one day.

cheers,

Alaa

http://www.manalaa.net

"u know i once dream that the office of mobinil is from el 7`os :S and the one that answer u and tell u rasidak a girl called ghada"


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news updating from AIT
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Submitted by linuxawy on Mon, 04/10/2004 - 20:41.

hi all i passed today at Dr.Ayman in AIT, and i handed him a small paper about what is supposed to happen in the next steps, here is what was in it:

Dear Dr.Ayman Shawky, Regarding the appointment we had last Saturday in your office about introducing the Linux OS to the students in AIT through a free, short introductory course, we would like to tell you our idea about this matter: We'll introduce Linux through that course with main aim to make students able to install it and make basic usage of the Linux OS. We'll use Mandrake Linux version 10.00 official as our Linux distribution with KDE desktop. The course will be in three successive days, 2 hours each day. We'll need a computer lab with pc's with minimum 3GB unpartitioned free space on each PC to do an installation of Linux. We'll provide the installation CD's to the students upon request.

The coarse plan will be as following:

Day One: Introduction to GNU/Linux and FOSS. Installing Mandrake Linux. Day Two: Configuration through GUI. Basic CLI commands. Day Three: Applications. Open discussion.

We'll be happy to have your suggestions about this plan.

Please note that our web page about this issue is: http://www.eglug.org/node/view/595

Regards, EGLUG Team

now our next step is to prepare a prochure to be hanged on the walls advertising EGLUG and the linux coarse.. anybody can help in that???

Ahmed D. El-Mekkawy

  • I was known as Black Cat

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hey it happened to me also,
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Submitted by maslan on Mon, 04/10/2004 - 23:52.

hey it happened to me also, after 2 years failing at the fac of sc. alex univ is finally went to the AAST (arab academy for science and technology and maritime trasport) the Computer eng not science . most of 1st year just now linux and some computer have linux already installed, i show some mo3eedeen knoppix 3.4 live cd , they seemed interested and asked me for the cd to make copies for themselves, ha nice

Maslan - Mohamed Abdelsalam Aslan
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Even if u need portability, u have to use assembly ;-)


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Great, Schedule ??
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Submitted by ShErbO on Tue, 05/10/2004 - 18:22.

what will our schedule be ? (Days, Times)

I'd rather have this at the beginning of the week, after 5.


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schedual not yet done
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Submitted by linuxawy on Wed, 06/10/2004 - 01:21.

the schedual is not yet done, but basically it will be after 4pm cause this is the time that all lectures end in AIT, about the days i'm not sure yet. but before we make a schedual we have to get the dean't approval first, which is i'm waiting for. untill we get it we can only make the bruchure so we are ready when he approves ISA

Ahmed D. El-Mekkawy

  • I was known as Black Cat

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The dean refused
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Submitted by linuxawy on Mon, 25/10/2004 - 15:58.

bad news, i got a contact from Dr.Ayman telling me that the dean refused giving the free linux course :S i sent him an email asking him why... i'll tell you when i get any news

Ahmed D. El-Mekkawy

  • I was known as Black Cat

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