Linux4Afrika goes Egypt?

[Ahmed Toulan]

That's great news. Will notify u when we decide the date.

Best regards,
Ahmed Toulan.

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Stephan Hermann <
stephan.hermann at denkmalquer.net> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> after a couple of weeks and thousands of mails ;-) there are good news
> to announce:
>
> Christian - a big friend of mine and an experienced linux administrator
> - and I will visit Egypt! :-)
>
> We will arrive at Kairo airport on Tuesday, 26 of october and stay for
> 5-6 weeks.
>
> So if you start your "Maverick release party" on 30 of october maybe
> this would be a great opportunity to meet each other.
>
> We're so excited to meet you and your country! :-)
>
> Many Greets from rainy Germany (temperature is about 6 degree Celsius -
> brrrrrr)
>
> Stephan
>
>
>
> Am 27.08.2010 14:31, schrieb 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
> > <mailto: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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