Linux4Afrika goes Egypt?

[Jonathan N. Hindi]

Hi Stephan,

I think most of us are interesting. Thanks for the great news. Hope to see
you in Egypt soon.

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Thanks & Regards,
Jonathan N. Hindi


On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Ahmed Toulan <thelinuxer at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 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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