Linux4Afrika goes Egypt?

[Ahmed Toulan]

That's gr8 news!

Sure hope to see you in Egypt when you come :)
I don't think we should make a new mailing list for this topic,
we should keep it here. People might get interested in the future.

Best regards,
Ahmed Toulan,


On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Stephan Hermann <
stephan.hermann at denkmalquer.net> wrote:

> 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?
>
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