MENGOS Conference: Call for volunteers | جنو لينكس مصر

Submitted by Manal on Tue, 25/01/2005 - 18:24.

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Center for Knowledge Society is planning a three days FOSS conference from ~~7-9~~ 13-15 March 2005.

1st day: (10 a.m to 5 p.m)

Panels on: FOSS in development covering:

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

2nd day: (6 p.m to 10 p.m)

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 (6 p.m to 10 p.m)

where we bring together all interested parties:

companies offering FOSS based services
companys using FOSS
NGOs using FOSS
developers
Academics interested in FOSS
FOSS communities
etc.

each will present their work and may be we can have round table discussions and handson technical demonstrations)

we want volunteers to help with the organization, administration, promotion and other meta work.

we also need volunteers to give technical demonstrations..

we need speakers for the first 2 days, so if u can do a presentation or know someone who can, plz contact us

finally, if u know of or represent any company or organization, using FOSS or offering FOSS services, plz let us know so we can invite them to join the mini expo.

I'll keep u updated with the details.

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Strange! I thought that vo

Submitted by MohammedSameer on Wed, 26/01/2005 - 02:02.

Strange!

I thought that volunteers should post here, Not to contact via mail ??

I'm not also sure whether senior users should ask people to contact info@eglug.org, I thought that when someone is asking something they might by answered like that, But not when organizing something, And I should that since you are asking people to contact anyone for a conference organized by mengos the email should be info@mengos.net NOT info@eglug.org

Also, Since when do we organise things that way ? everything should be OPEN to the cmmunity and organized on the website not via info@eglug, This is returning us to the dark ages IMHO.

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speakers should contact by email

Submitted by Alaa on Wed, 26/01/2005 - 08:00.

> we need speakers for the first 2 days, so if u can do a presentation or know someone who can, plz contact us

speakers CAN contact by email, this is not for volunteers, this would be more convenient for most candidate speakers.

I mean if you know someone who might want to present at the conference then you can tell them send an email to info@eglug.org which is probably easier than teeling them register and post a comment on eglug.

besides nothing in the post says you should send an email, it says contact us, contact us i a link to the email, but if you contact US in anyother manner thats fine.

cheers, Alaa

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i am here

Submitted by ramez.hanna on Wed, 26/01/2005 - 09:47.

i want to volunteer for this event as i did with other events with mengos and eglug
also i represent a company that provides FOSS services and do programming in the open source way we already have our application which will be posted on sourceforge soon.
as for the speakers part i can do that and someone from our company can do it too.
let's start working . . . VIVA la FOSS

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i hope so

Submitted by UnTouchAble on Fri, 28/01/2005 - 02:31.

salamo 3alekom i've sent my CV to you and i hope to join u in this event my mail is ahmad.ahmadsayed@gmail.com

I'm in

Submitted by BooDy on Fri, 28/01/2005 - 20:25.

My presentation skills suck I'm a bad organizer I use winlinux as my main linux distro but hey, I wanna contribute :P

seriously I'm in :)

any updates? ---------------

Submitted by ramez.hanna on Tue, 01/02/2005 - 14:43.

any updates?

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not really

Submitted by Alaa on Wed, 02/02/2005 - 00:02.

at the moment we're just trying to collect people to contact.

I think we should set up a wiki for the event and start real planning, time is very tight afterall.

the moment the folks at Center For Knowledge Society book a place they should start sending invitation letters.

but if you've got any ideas itching you now please share

cheers, Alaa

http://www.manalaa.net "i`m feeling for the 2nd time like alice in wonderland reading el wafd"

well i awas having some thoug

Submitted by ramez.hanna on Wed, 02/02/2005 - 13:07.

well i awas having some thoughts and some quesrtions
like is there any idea about the schedule i mean what does it contain ? will it be sessions only or there will be hands on tutorials or maybe hands on demos
what about sponsoring ? someone maybe interested in sponsoring, what should he do?
i think having sessions on FOSS applications like drupal or maybe SQLledger (tools that are needed by companies not just desktops) could be motivating
what do you think guys?

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some answers

Submitted by Alaa on Wed, 02/02/2005 - 15:59.

the format is to have

panels on the first day (meaning people will take about generic issues not particular technologies).
technicl presentation on the second day (this is stuff done on a projector with a speaker and people sittin down, it should be about useful tech, stuff like drupal and SQL ledger certainly has a place here, but remember only 4 hours in the second day).
3rd day will have handson presentations done for small groups gathered around a table.

the topics for the 1st day are fixed in stone more or less the 2nd day they're negotiable but IMO the topics chosen are the ones that make most sense for the theme of the conference (FOSS and development)

the 3rd day is not fixed at all, each company is free to present what it wants, and is expected to advertise its services and products, EGLUG volunteers should present other tools, solutions and techs.

keep the excellent ideas coming

BTW folks do you think we should setup a proper wiki to organize this, or is the drupal book module good enough for now?

cheers, Alaa

http://www.manalaa.net "i`m feeling for the 2nd time like alice in wonderland reading el wafd"

BTW folks do you think we sho

Submitted by Hossam (not verified) on Wed, 09/02/2005 - 01:24.