Eglug volunteers who participated in the event:

1. Manal
2. Ezabi

1st day:

we took the 7:15 train from Cairo and arrived in el Menya @ 10:30 and went directly to Gam3eyet el Sa3eed hotel in Abu Qorqas.

arrived @ Salah el Din school (for boys) in Abu Qorqas @ 13:00, we then started the installation of MandrakeLinux 10.1 Eglug edition in their computer lab. the teachers started to arrive while we were installing and we decided to explain the installation process to them all.

انتهت انتخابات المراقبين، فريق مراقبى EGLUG مكون من

voting period is over, our moderation team is

1. Manal
2. DarknessWolf
3. Conceptor
4. Ezabi
5. BooDy
6. DJ King

احصائيات

Center for Knowledge Society is planning a three days FOSS conference from 7-9 March 2005.

1st day:

Panels on: FOSS in development covering:

• FOSS as a tool in development
• challenges facing FOSS, and case studies
• Intellectual property

2nd day:

technical presentation on specific FOSS technologies, solutions and opportuinites for development

• Status of FOSS desktop and arabization
• FOSS web publishing platform
• FOSS and universal access

3rd day: mini FOSS expo

where we bring together all interested parties:

I'll be flying to Bangalore, India to represent Arabeyes in Asia Source from the 28th of Jan. to the 4th of Feb. The 7 days camp is co-organised by Mahiti.org (Bangalore) and the Tactical Technology Collective (Amsterdam). The aim of the camp is to increase the uptake of FLOSS by NGOs.

اليوم بدأنا فترة التصويت لانتخاب 6 مراقبين من ضمن 13 مرشح.

تذكير سريع بالقواعد:

• الكل له الحق فى التصويت
• عملية الصويت تتبع نظام ترتيب بدل من اعطاء صوتك لعدد محدود من المرشحين مطلوب منك ترتيبهم حسب رايك فى من الاصلح لدور مراقب
• أفضل مرشح فى رأيك يحصل على ترتيب 1 و أخر مرشح فى ترتيب الأفضلية 13
• يجب ترتيب كل المرشحين
• لا يمكن اعطاء ترتيب واحد لأكثر من مرشح

نرجو مراجعة مراجعة القواعد و الدستور

today is the start of our election period, we will elect 6 moderators out of 13 candidates

review of rules

• every member has the right to vote
• voting uses a ranking process, instead of giving your vote to certain candidates you will rank candidates according to you opinion on how suiteable they are for the role of moderator
• the most suitable candidate gets a ranking of 1 the least suitable candidate gets a ranking of 13
• all candidates must be ranked
• you cannot give more than one candidate the same rank

This is a call to all Senior Members it is finally time we elected our team of moderators. if you're interested in helping keep the EGLUG website in shape and well organized please nominate yourselfs.

نداء لكل الاعضاء القدامى، وقت انتخاب فريق المراقبين أزف، من يريد أن يشارك فى تنظيم و تنسيق صفحة EGLUG يمكنه ترشيح نفسه.

according to the list of Senior Members we have 28 seniors, and according to the Members Class Assignment Policy moderators should be 20% the number of seniors at election time, this means we need to elect 6 moderators.

وفقا لقائمة الاعضاء القدامى عدد القدامى 28 و وفقا لسياسة تصنيف الأعضاء فريق المراقبين يجب أن يكون 20% من عدد الأعضاء القدامى وقت الانتخابات، اذن علينا انتخاب 6 مراقبين.

as you all know we've announced elections before but failed to deliver (this time is for real and we got the pizza to prove it) so we'll assume the old list of nominees is still valid please add your name if you want to run for moderatorship.

I know we said this before this time its for real.

elections where delayed because of me finding no time to write the ranking vote module, then they where delayed because we waited until the upgrade to drupal 4.5 was done. then it was delayed even further because we dleayed the upgrade until we moved to a new host, the move to a new host was delayed until we could find a decent host and after finding one it was delayed until we could find a functioning credit card.

as you all must have noticed we've been having many problems with our hosting provider, we decided to move to a new host and we've been working slowly on the migration and a upgrade to drupal 4.5

however yesterday we found strange changes to file permissions and the site theme was b0rked, we decided enough was enough and started on emergency migration. the idea was to move the hardly ever used eglug.net domain to the new host and work on the migration there then change the eglug.org domain, this way most users would not feel any downtime.

at last we got around to populating our photos section, with photos from our various events and activities.

most of these photos are from Alaa and Manal's collection.

if you have any other EGLUG photos you want to share please upload them.

cheers, Alaa

For the next month we will organize a series of special short sessions at Al Sakia from a variety of topics covering Web Development, Programming, Networking and Advanced GNU/Linux usage.

طوال الشهر القادم سنقوم بتنظيم مجموعة من الجلسات التدريبية فى ساقية عبد المنعم الصاوى تغطى مواضيع فى تطوير صفحات الوب، البرمجة، الشبكات و الاستخدام المتقدم لنظم جنو/لينكس.

As it is celebrated all over the world, we're going to have a gathering for open source enthusiasts to celebrate the launch of Mozilla Firefox 1.0.

Following is some information about the registration.

Sign up for the party at: http://www.openforce.at/mozparty2/?party=298

On Thursday the 25th of November from 20:00 to 22:00 in the Falaki Cafe at the American University in Cairo!

IMPORTANT: If you're not a student or an Alumni of The American University in Cairo, please send your full name and ID number to events@os-sp.com by Tuesday(23rd of November) so that we can make you a security clearance.

As part of the project of Center for Knowledge Society with the CDA of 3ezbet Bekheet in Mansheyet Naser, GNU/Linux is now installed in Mansheyet Nasr with the cooperation of EGLUG.

Yesterday (Thursday 11th November 2004), Manal, Alaa, Ezabi, MohammedSameer and DJ-King's laptop arrived @ Mansheyet Nasr @ 9 p.m after getting lost on the "autostraud" looking for a u-turn.

First, Ezabi and Manal were setting up the network, (Ezabi did the major part of course) while Alaa and MohammedSameer were installing GNU/Linux on one of the pcs in preparation of a network install.

Everybody,

We will be having an interview with Eng.Ahmed Hussien currently TE Data's R&D manager and previously Geganet's operations manager and TE Data's operations manager on his story with FOSS and its implementation in a large Egyptian ISP working on a carrier level.

Here we will be suggesting our questions and awaiting for you to submit your own question to choose among them and have an interview 'a la slashdot' style.

as part of our partnership with ArabDev Arabdev asked us to attend the ActionApps Workcamp which is being held in Cape Town, South Africa from the 24th to the 29th.

ActionApps is a content management system geared at NGOs who do lots of campaigns, it is being developed by The Association For Progressive Communication (an umbrella organization ArabDev is part of which has a strong FOSS focus)

The WorkCamp will include training streams for people who want to implement websites using ActionApps and development streams for people interesting in hacking it.

When we started giving GNU/Linux courses for Beginners in August we were planning to give 4 courses only, but due to the great demand we continued to give them in September and the first half of October.

Although we still have a very long waiting list for the courses, attendance has been very low in the past two courses, we are not sure if this is due to mistakes on the booking and confirmation process or a sign of change in the demand.

EGLUG announces that the courses will stop with the beginning of the month of Ramadan.

The last course will start on the 10th of October.

We hope that we gained new GNU/Linux users and new EGLUG members :-)