Manal and Alaa's bit bucket

I just noticed that we passed the 1000 nodes milestone, I suppose thats a long way for our website.

is anyone wondering about the rate by which eglug is growing?

I made a crude plot of eglug's growth with time using.

green is for nodes and red is for users.

what do you make of it?

even though the growth is steady our active members are still among the first 200 (most among the first 100 actually), how to we engage the new members?

At last YoussefAssad Got for us the solution ( i`m posting cuz he is a little busy )

first of all, we will consider that the issue is too grey to be covered either in the charter or by discussing. So, we need to do two things

1. Make a note to amend the charter.
2. decide who becomes admin.

about the second part As for who wins, the current admins will get together and decide. This is the only way to get over this thing. We will decide by tomorrow noon.

The current team of admins got together just now to decide what to do about the election situation. We have decided the following:

1. The next time the charter comes up for modification, we need to fix this issue (by saying that we use cron to close the election poll)
2. There will be ONE person leaving the admin team and TWO persons joining it. I (YoussefAssad) will be leaving and both Conceptor and Ezabi will be joining it. This is effective immediately.

Sorry for the mess; we're a young community. Our charter is also young and it will learn from our mistakes. Thanks everyone for your patience, and thanks to Roberto Ramsis for the idea to make both admins.

Without further ado, our administrative team is:

• Alaa
• Conceptor
• Ezabi
• Uniball
• whirlpool

انتهت انتخابات مديرى الموقع، فريق المديرين مكون من administrators voting period is over our administration team is

1. MhammedSameer (Uniball)
2. Alaa
3. Whirlpool
4. Ezabi
5. Conceptor

ادلى 43 عضو و عضوة بأصواتهم، الحد الأدنى للأصوات لنجاح الانتخابات كان 17 صوت، عدد الأعضاء حوالى 537 منهم 28 أعضاء قدامى

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

Panels on: FOSS in development covering:

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

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

where we bring together all interested parties:

1. Manal
2. Alaa

we took the 7:15 train from Cairo and arrived in el Menya @ 10:20. we were staying at a 3awama called Dahabeya, we went directly to it and had a lovely breakfast on the Nile.

we then went to meet the people from New Vision at their place, we spent around 2 hours there (details later).

1. Manal
2. Ezabi

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.

اليوم بدأنا فترة التصويت فى انتخابات المديرين لانتخاب 4 مديرين من ضمن 6 مرشحين.

• 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 6
• يجب ترتيب كل المرشحين
• لا يمكن اعطاء ترتيب واحد لأكثر من مرشح

الحد الأدنى من الأصوات المطلوب لنجاح الانتخابات هو 17 و تستمر فترة التصويت لمدة 10 أيام

نرجو مراجعة مراجعة القواعد و الدستور

today is the start of our Administrators election period, we will elect 4 administrators out of 6 candidates

• 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 suitable they are for the role of moderator
• the most suitable candidate gets a ranking of 1 the least suitable candidate gets a ranking of 6
• all candidates must be ranked
• you cannot give more than one candidate the same rank

minimum number of votes required is 17, election period will last 10 days.

please review our rules and charter

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

• MohammedSameer score = 94
• Alaa score = 99
• Whirlpool score = 151
• Ezabi score = 177
• Conceptor score = 180
• DJ-KING score = 202

Manal and Ezabi will go to Abu Korkas in Menya to start the ArabDev/EGLUG project there.

they will be training 8 school teachers from the Salah El Din (e3dadi, boys school) and Adib Wahba (e3dadi, mixed shcool).

This is more or less an initial visit, Ezabi and Manal will install GNU/Linux on schoool pcs, meet the terachers, explain what FOSS and GNU/Linux is about and asses their skills and their needs.

• Manal score = 275
• DarKnesS_Wolf score = 315
• Conceptor score = 384
• Ezabi score = 389
• BooDy score = 390
• DJ KING score = 394
• ramez.hanna score = 396
• Pronco score = 411
• SeeKeR score = 423
• NewComer score = 425
• ShErbO score = 444
• SoPpY_BoY score = 456
• robertoramsis score = 485

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

• 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

• 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

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.

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.