Linux4Afrika goes Egypt?

[Stephan Hermann]

Hello everybody,

I'm sorry for this long delay - I was on holidays for a couple of days 
just to "recharging my batteries"! ;-)

There are good news from Sekem:
The first little but important step is done: We succeeded in convincing 
the general manager and the two leading IT administrators of using open 
source! :-) They are very interested in Linux and want to know more 
about it.

Mohamed Saudi schrieb:
> Definitely that is a very good idea, specially their school, if 
> we made it to make their school teach Ubuntu/Linux that would be a 
> significant achievement in the Egyptian education sector, plus that 
> would make them very unique among other schools. We can prepare 
> educational materials for them, and train their staff and teachers at 
> their place.

As I suggested, this could be the next step: There are one or two 
computer rooms in Sekem's educational center. We will try to migrate 
these rooms to open source software - both the clients and a little server.
The aim is to build up a little "open source oasis" which will be the 
place where

1.
IT administrators and users can make their first experiences with Linux 
and open source

2.
trainings, presentations and workshops about Linux and open source can 
take place.

The server will be a donation of Dieter: An Intel Atom N270 with 2 GB 
RAM, an Intel D945GCLF2 Mainboard and a 300 GB SATA hard disk.

Unfortunately the clients are very weak: Something less than 1-GHz-CPU 
and little memory. This is why I think about an LTSP solution or 
something similar - we will see.

And now it's almost sure that I will visit Egypt! :-) The current plan 
is that I stay for about six weeks, probably from Tuesday, 25.10.2010 up 
to Saturday, 04.12.2010. So it would be an honour for me to meet some of 
you! :-)


Many greets from rainy Germany
Stephan


P.S.: If much of you are not interested in this Sekem stuff I suggest to 
make an own mailinglist where the people who are interested can join. 
What do you think about this?