A list of NGOs we work with

1. ArabDev
2. Center For Knowledge Society
3. Scientific Society For Telecom Engineers
4. COSPE Egypt
5. Arabic Human Rights Information Network

Want To Learn how to use GNU/Linux

Call 7350702 and ask for EGLUG courses

Over the month of August, EGLUG will organize 4 GNU/Linux courses for begginers.

The course will last 3 days (sunday, tuesday, thursday) from 5:30pm to 8:30pm and will cover the basics of installing and using a GNU/Linux desktop system.

The courses will be held in Al Sawi Cultural Center in Zamalek.

The purpose of these rules is not to restrict anyone but to help us create a community of friendship and goodwil and to ensure members rights.

all rules where arrived at through a democratic process and are periodicaly reexamined and changed if need be.

The Charter

The charter defines who we are, what we stand for and what the basic principals of the community are.

• english version
• arabic version

Current charter version was ratified on the 22nd of July 2004

Policies

The Resource Usage Policy

Purpose

This document details how resources owned by eglug.org shall be used and what are the rights of the members in relation to these resources.

Disclaimer

Ownership here is a social contract not legal ownership, legal ownership would typicaly be to the one who payed for the resource, in case of payment by electronic means as in credit cards legal ownership will be to the owner of the account used to pay. while this in theory may give one person power over the whole community there is no practical means to avoid this problem, trust and peer pressure are the only thing the only guarantees we could have.

Member Class Assignment Policy

Purpose

This document details the process of selecting Administrators, Moderators and Senior Users.

It also covers the procedure for dealing with members who violate their mandates or abuse their positions.

Senior Members

Senior members shall be choosen from among new members in an auotmated fashion.

A score will be kept to measure each members activity in the LUG, any member who reaches a score of 100 points will be automaticaly promoted to senior member.

Only contributions in the in topic areas of the eglug.org website and activities will be scored, moderated/unpublished contributions will not be counted at all.

The Acceptable Use Policy

Purpose

The Acceptable Use Policy is a simple set of guidelines determining behavior in eglug. The intention is not to restrict, but rather to provide the barest possible protection for members in order to provide a respectable and constructive working environment for the site. The AUP is as follows.

The Policy

The following kinds of speech will not be allowed on the eglug.org website:

1. No content violating the laws of Egypt.
2. No Hate speech against individuals or groups.
3. No personal attacks.
4. No Profanity or sexualy explicit content.
5. No off topic content.

The eglug.org charter

The Bahram Document

Article 1 - Title

The title of the group is The Egyptian GNU/Linux Users Group - مجموعة مستخدمى جنو/لينكس فى مصر.

The lug shall be referred to as EGLUG - جنو/لينكس مصر

the domain name of the group shall be eglug.org

Article 2 - Why Does EGLUG.org exist

• To promote the use of Free/Open Source Software in general and GNU/Linux in particular within Egypt
• To provide support for GNU/Linux and Free/Open Source Software users and contributors in Egypt
• To build a thriving, proactive and friendly community of GNU/Linux and Free/Open Source Software users.

دستور مجموعة مستخدمى جنو/لينوكس فى مصر

وثيقة بهرام

البند الأول - الأسم

أسم المجموعة هو مجموعة مستخدمى جنو/لينوكس فى مصر - The Egyptian GNU/Linux Users Group وأيضا يشار لمجموعة مستخدمى لينوكس ب EGLUG - جنو/لينوكس مصر و أسم موقع المجموعة هو eglug.org

البند الثانى - لماذا جنو/لينوكس مصر موجودة؟

• لترويج استخدام البرمجيات الحرة/مفتوحة المصدر بشكل عام و جنو/لينوكس بشكل خاص فى مصر.

To set up a website the way we described in the Wiki (we need to import this stuff here) there are some descisions we need to make, and some challenges facing us that may require coding or altering the way we work.

The real challanges are not in the CMS though, its in coming up with new guidelines and rules of governance.

sticky topics like posting guidelines, moderation guidelines, administration guidelines, who belongs to which user group and how to determine the criterea, how to avoid conflicts, how to encourage contribution etc.

I will stick to the drupal specific problems here, the rest needs a long dialogue.