Linux4Afrika goes Egypt?

[mahmoud mohamed]

great ideas and i think we are ready to help.
but I still confused about how we will help on that.

2010/7/30 Stephan Hermann <stephan.hermann at denkmalquer.net>

> Hello again! :-)
>
> as I announced a few days ago, here are some thoughts and ideas I want
> to share with you.
>
> To get an idea about Sekem first, here are some links for you:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEKEM
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Abouleish
> http://www.sekem.com/
>
> ...and because pictures are saying more than thousand words:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDy1NBUzUSc
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXbuC-UJ5vw
>
> (the second clip has got a wrong title: The guy talking is not Dr.
> Ibrahim Abouleish, but his son, Helmy Abouleish)
>
> Some years ago I started to get interested in topics dealing with
> sustainable development (organic food, organic clothes, fair trade
> products, clean energy, ...). This is why I'm also interested in Sekem
> (and by the way: This is also why I started to learn Open Source :-))
>
> So I strongly believe that the ideas and the philosophy of Open Source
> and Sekem fits to each other very well!
>
> And because I get in contact with some people from Sekem during the last
> few weeks, I think that this could be a great chance to introduce the
> ideas and of course the technique of Open Source Software to Sekem.
> Maybe we could do some little introducing steps first, and after this we
> can see how things could grow in the future... :-)
>
> To be more precise now:
> Sekem has got an educational center with two computer rooms, and
> "somewhere" in this educational center there's a server which should
> work as a fileserver and an http-proxy. At the moment this is a
> Windows-Server which has got many problems and downtimes...
>
> These rooms and this server could be the first Open Source projects. Of
> course in order to do this it's necessary to learn much about the local
> network infrastructure.
>
> Probably I will be at Sekem for a few weeks in November 2010, so I'm
> going to take a first look at the local conditions.
>
> That's it for the moment... I would be very pleased to hear your opinion
> about all of my thoughts! :-)
>
> Many greets from Freiburg
> Stephan
>
>
>
> Stephan Hermann schrieb:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > my name is Stephan, I live in Freiburg (Germany) and I take part in a
> > group of volunteers called Linux4Afrika (http://www.linux4afrika.de)
> > which initiates IT-projects based on open source software in some
> > african countries like Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania and Burundi.
> >
> > A few weeks ago, we received a message from a former german teacher who
> > works for an egyptian company named Sekem (http://www.sekem.com)
> > voluntarily. He asked for support for a little file/proxy-server-project
> > in Sekem's educational center.
> >
> > Because Egypt is "virgin territory" for Linux4Afrika I started to search
> > for existing open source groups - and finally I found you! :-) I
> > contacted Mohamed Saudi from this group, and I had a very nice
> > correspondence with him. Delightfully he invited me to join your
> > mailinglist in order to talk to each other and try to connect our
> > voluntary activities for open source in Egypt.
> >
> > So far - I'm very glad to join you and your group, and I'm very curios
> > about our upcoming discussions! :-)
> >
> > Within the next few days I will send detailed information about our
> > ideas and plans regarding Sekem and open source.
> >
> >
> > Many greets from Germany
> > Stephan
> >
>
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