Open Source Education Day 2011 (OSED'2011)

[Salwan]

On 4/29/2011 6:42 PM, Amr Ali wrote:
> Salwan;
>
> I personally recommend the cooperation with Ubuntu-EG, they are organized and
> used to making med-to-large events, meet regularly, and full of energetic people.
>
> And I'm not recommending them just because I'm a member (very lazy, and rarely
> contributing member, but that's aside from the point), but also because some of
> the members are senior members in EGLUG or administrators, so they got the
> experience and the connections for such thing.
>
> Anyways, good luck, and wish you all the best :-)
>
> On 04/29/2011 06:36 PM, Ahmed Toulan wrote:
>> Hi Salwan,
>>
>> I sent u an email, and no u didn't reply yet :) . Anyway we can continue the
>> discussion here. I mentioned that we give a number of sessions in our events.
>> These sessions include Qt, Python, Joomla, Drupal, Inkscape and Blender. We
>> would be glad to help u in the event as a group isA, in anyway possible.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Ahmed Toulan.
>>
@Ahmed: oops sorry ^_^' it was a little email client mistake on my part..
Yes, let's continue here then.
That sounds amazing!
One of the things I'm trying to do is take the whole curriculum for IT 
department in Misr University and suggest open source alternatives for 
each closed source solution they use.. We might even go beyond that and 
suggest open source alternatives for computer engineering subjects, 
things like GHDL (http://ghdl.free.fr/) or Sage 
(http://www.sagemath.org/) come to mind..
Now, the sessions you mentioned fit this goal perfectly, especially if 
presenters included a direct comparison between the closed-source 
solution in use and the open-source alternative, so if we take Qt for 
example that would be a Windows Forms|MFC vs. Qt comparison, can this be 
done?
Furthermore, in your opinion, how many sessions like these can be given 
in about 3 hours?

@Amr: I'm glad I met you guys =)
I know you're busy, but are you interested in participating in the event 
activities? I remember you mentioning something about taking advantage 
of the event.. ;-)
What do you have in mind?

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Kindest Regards,
Salwan Asaad