Hello fellow penguins.

I found this on mozillazine.org:

Mozilla Calendar Project Lead Mike Potter Retires, Mostafa Hosseini Named as New Head

Yesterday, Mike Potter retired as the lead of the Mozilla Calendar project. Mostafa Hosseini has now taken over Mike's duties, which include reviewing patches, checking in code, creating new builds and updating the project website. Like Mike, Mostafa works for OEone (the company that launched the Calendar project) and has already written substantial portions of the component's code.

The current plan is to work towards making Calendar into a standalone application, along the lines of Mozilla Firebird and Mozilla Thunderbird. Though the team did discuss moving Calendar to mozdev, they have decided to remain a part of the Mozilla project for now. Encouragingly, there has been interest in Calendar from companies such as Sun Microsystems and Lindows.com.

FULL ARTICLE (http://mozillazine.org/articles/article3373.html
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Just so people don't get confused, Mostafa Hosseini is not the same person as Mostafa Hussein (me).

Have fun.

السلام عليكم،
دي تماحيك دي بقى ولا إيه؟

سلام.

Oneday me and alaa were searching for any arabs with important positions conserning GNU/Linux and opensource software, We found:
Jasmine el huq (S.u.S.E) and Mostafa Husaini (oeone) and we thought that both of you are the same person too :-)

I remember that you asked me last december about that. :) The funny thing that I read the whole post as Mostafa Hussein and not hosseini, untill I focused enough to notice.

check this out ;-)

http://www.linux-egypt.org/article/51

Hey!
I didn't know that we have such an article :rolleyes:

Wala ana! :)

can't we have an anounecment on the homepage then, or some cool banner.

cheers,
Alaa

Originally posted by alaa
some cool banner.


coming soon, with a Keramik look like the Get Fonts one :)

But please, since you are somehow in a better position to complain to AZA-Group. Could you change the Flash Animation ad. on this website frontpage. I guess GIF would be much better, since lots of us don't have flash installed. And the pop-up asking me to install flash each and every time is making me lose my sanity. (I am avoiding the front page, I enter from other pages)

BTW, I think GIFs are liberated now.

Originally posted by whirlpool

I guess GIF would be much better

BTW, I think GIFs are liberated now.

even a .mng image.
that's for you m0h ;-)

Originally posted by whirlpool

check this out ;-)

http://www.linux-egypt.org/article/51

At last you did it man !!
It needs some consistency though.
Plz, Mostafa; don't forget to add the last update date at the top of the article, it will help visitors determine how recent are the info.

Regards
Mohamed Eldesoky

ps, I agree that flash is not suitable, don't bite me m0h ;)

Look I will update it every now and then. I hope I could get more exciting stuff in there :) . This consistency issue will be dealt with in the next update. And BTW, I think I will not be able to do the other thing mohamed.

My Firebird 0.6 keeps on crashing xfs when editing arabic text for a long time. The bug has been fixed but the recent nightlies are compiled for i686 and I don't have the drive space nor the time to download and compile a recent nightly. And Mozilla behaves like a slow lazy reptile, on my beloved PI-233MMX technology with the spacious 32MB of RAM and 2.5GB HDD(with only 1GB "healthy")

BTW, the article was written on Katoob ;-) well, actually lots of things I do to.

MNG support has been removed from Mozilla.
http://www.deftone.com/blogzilla/archives/removal_of_mngjng_support.html

Sometimes i hate the mozilla team!
If you tell them Hey! I want a way to brush my hair with mozilla, They'll
implement it.
Now with 486 votes they are killing an OS thing like mng ?
I placed my vote.

man if I had the power I'd remove the flash from the Linux-Egypt.org homapage and from the AZA-Group home page, hell I'd remove them from all webpages I've never seen a more annoying technology, and Egyptians are soooooo obsessed with it, most decent websites are moving away from flash yet I hardly know an Egyptian site that doesn't use it.

flash is going the way of the java appelet, lets see what will .NET bring us.

cheers,
Alaa

Hey! I stay away from the net for one day to come and find all this attack :p

I agree that flash is not the best solution for this animated AD as it is so simple and Flash is not so welcomed in Linux communities, but its the smallest in size, any way give me time to see what we can replace it with.

I guess GIF would be much better, since lots of us don't have flash installed. And the pop-up asking me to install flash each and every time is making me lose my sanity. (I am avoiding the front page, I enter from other pages)

Then why don't you download it! :D it takes a couple of min only, over 516 million users can view Flash content without having to download the player that's about 98.4% of the Web users!

Flash maybe abuses by some designers but it's still a great technology that added a lot to the web IMHO.

For example Flash saved the online advertising market, it was almost died after most people stopped clicking on those boring banners or even they jumped to anther page before the banner loads which is something solved by Flash check: http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2002/flashmx_ads.html

I know that some people prefer the old classic sites that contains no animation at all and even some don't like sites with colors in it, but MOST of the internet users enjoy Flash sites when it loads fast and its not annoying which is something the designer responsible for, since most users likes it and are able to view Flash content we can safely use it as 1.6% (in Egypt its lower than 1.6%) is not a big deal but also making a non Flash page for the users that can't or don't want to view Flash content would be nice.

Since we are at the "Programming and R&D " Forum and Flash has nothing to do with the topic I started a new thread at:
http://www.linux-egypt.org/showthread.php?threadid=1521
Which we can continue the Flash discussion at, also I added a poll about Flash to see what is the opinion of Linux Egypt members :)

Originally posted by alaa
...Egyptians are soooooo obsessed with it, most decent websites are moving away from flash yet I hardly know an Egyptian site that doesn't use it.

flash is going the way of the java appelet, lets see what will .NET bring us.

cheers,
Alaa

Check out this guy, I wanted to hug his website. I even thanked him for the great webdesign.
http://www.thecairoworkshop.com/

.NET, is bringing us impending DOOM. An Egyptian company called ITWorx took Microsoft's partner prize (http://www.ameinfo.com/news/Detailed/25886.html) for inventing a web based tool to securely access files on corporate file servers and their local drives from anywhere in the world using any internet browser. No client software installation is required on the source or destination PCs.
On October 1985, RFC959 (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc959/) was published.

Damn you M$, more publicity stunts. Exactly like that 5 year old kid that they labelled SMART and baba billy gates gave him a prize. local TV that mutes the name of any company went whoring about M$.

Go away Microsoft, we don't want your delusional prizes that aid no one. More methods to infiltrate more markets like a cancer, to suck more money.

sorry, I couldn't hold my self.

>Check out this guy, I wanted to hug his website. I even thanked him for
>the great webdesign.
>http://www.thecairoworkshop.com/

very nice, can you please also explain to him the difference between GNU anf the GPL, he lists some non GNU bu GPLed software as GNU (it's nice of him to link the the GNU project so that people could learn about free software but it pays to be accurate).

hey we should also tell him about sylpheed and gpg this way he'll replace the freeware he uses with real Free Software.

cheers,
Alaa

Originally posted by alaa
>Check out this guy, I wanted to hug his website. I even thanked him for
>the great webdesign.
>http://www.thecairoworkshop.com/

very nice, can you please also explain to him the difference between GNU anf the GPL, he lists some non GNU bu GPLed software as GNU (it's nice of him to link the the GNU project so that people could learn about free software but it pays to be accurate).

hey we should also tell him about sylpheed and gpg this way he'll replace the freeware he uses with real Free Software.

cheers,
Alaa

The guy is a linux user from a year. Well, I guess I will forward the url for this discussion to him.