Linux4Afrika goes Egypt?

[Jonathan N. Hindi]

Hi,
Good news. Welcome to Cairo in advance. Waiting to see you.

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Thanks & Regards,
*Jonathan N. Hindi
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On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Ahmed Toulan <thelinuxer at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 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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