So while the free drupal hosting service we are running on manalaa was not a spectacular success we got 5 subscribers ya3ni the service is useful.

thought I'd tell you about the features in drupal (sad attempt at PR ya3ni).

you can test all these features at the demo site.

At Manalaa (TM) You have the power to

CREATE

• Blogs
• Image galleries
• Discussion forums
• Polls
• Surveys
• Event calendar and send invitations
• Create your own content types and forms (book or movie reviews)
• Books with hierarchical organization

CONTROL

• Categorize your content (unlimited categories and hierarchies)
• Selective unpublishing of contents (no need to permanently delete content)

الناس كلها فاقدة الأمل فى شباب البلد لكن انا تجربة eglug جددت ايمانى بيهم المستقبل فى ايدينا يا جماعة، و الحمد لله شباب مصر زى الفل

و علشان اثبتلكم اللى باقوله ادى مثال بسيط للعينات اللى بتعدى علينا

ده ايميل وصل لinfo@eglug.org النهاردة

هاىيا شباب جنو/لينوكس

انا شاب مصرى ومعاجب بالاختراعات والبرامج وانا من المستخدم جنو/الينوكس واحبة جدا توجدبعض الاشياء مش مظبوطة

from http://www.eglug.org/mengos_conf

مؤتمر البرمجيات الحرة مفتوحة المصدر و التنمية 13 – 15 مارس 2005

دعوة لحضور مؤتمر تحت عنوان البرمجيات الحرة مفتوحة المصدر و التنمية، 13-15 مارس 2005، يوميا من السادسة مساء حتى العاشرة، بفندق شبرد - القاهرة. ينظم هذا المؤتمر مركز مجتمع المعرفة (http://www.mengos.net) بالأشتراك مع مجموعة مستخدمى الجنو/لينوكس المصرية (http://www.eglug.org).

الدعوة مفتوحة، للاستفسار
manal@mengos.net
info@eglug.org mailto:info@eglug.org

Free Open Source Software and Development Conference 13 – 15 March 2005

Invitation to attend the conference entitled Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) and Development (13-15 March 2005, daily from 6 p.m to 10 p.m, Shepard Hotel in Cairo), which is organized by Center for Knowledge Society (http://www.mengos.net) with the cooperation of EGLUG (Egyptian GNU/Linux Users Group http://www.eglug.org).

Open Invitation, for enquiries:
manal@mengos.net
info@eglug.org

its not just that I don't blog, but when I blog its not on this site.

since my work and my free time are all spent on Free Software and GNU/Linux I blog on my EGLUG Blog

maybe I should just mirror this stuff here to make this page look lively.

anyways my last piece of work is a huge messy document that tries to record my thoughts on how to use Free Software to make computers and computing more accessible and affordable to egyptians.

its a great big mess but its worth a read IMO, maybe one day I'll clean it up.

meanwhile I hope it will result in actual EGLUG activities.

SlashDotInterview turned out to be a great success, Alaa is a famous guy now, everyone loves him, this time there was almost no racism (we must have misjudged slashdotters then) and very few trolls even though we got 530+ comments. Alaa met wonderful people, made new friends, got invited to Orkut and we did not get slashdotted.

The Interview

Yay Alaa is famous; slashdot is doing an interview with him http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/05/1354234 .

Man look at the racist comments, we never could stomach slashdot, the trick ?MadFarmAnimalz tells us is to browse at +5!!!.

Anyway this is the first time we expose ourselves to racism (is this how it feels to be black, female, homosexual, jewish, copt, palestinian.... hell its probably even worse), but what scares us the most is how misinformed slashdotters are,maybe we should start a ?SlashDottersGuideToEgypt one day.

come to think of it this is probably a good idea, I doubt you can find a photo of an ?EgyptianBus or an ?EgyptianClassRoom on the web.

We where not organized, we did everything wrong, it was a great mess, it was the best day in my life, it couldn't have been better, the 1st ?LinuxEgypt ?InstallFest was a great success, we got around 3000 visitors, had a great time and we're completley burned up. ?InstallFest website @ http://festival.linux-egypt.org Photos @ http://home.linux-egypt.org/cgi-bin/show_photos.cgi?photos/festival/ The wiki where we organized everything @ http://linux-egypt.manalaa.net/index.php/MayInstallFest Communication with ?InstallFest visitors @ http://aquaehost.com/pipermail/linuxday_manalaa.net/ Slashdot report @ http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/02/1838225