<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">WA Mohamed,</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Having contacts with TAs is great, this will ease many things isAllah, "including the meeting with the Dean or Vice Dean and other reservations."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I suggest going directly to the Dean, not the vice dean, because when Dr. Reem is convinced she will get you what you want directly "men 3'eer laf we dawaran ma3 ba2eet el nas".</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The place you suggested is great, it will be like a big installation booth, however, I suggest to make a pre-installation session, that motivates students to install Ubuntu , because the open source mentality in our faculty is not so mature, "this is from my personal point of view"</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There are two main issues you have to take care of:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1- Media , Media & Media</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2- Visitors or speakers who are not from FCI-CU, will need a permission from the faculty security before the event . "Ka2ed El 7aras", "something for routine, and to avoid embarrassing situations on the event day from the faculty security"</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Finally this is my opinion from my own point of view, you may ask more people to get wider view.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">P.S. : "Any posters or flyers will need a permission from Re3ayet el Shabab too."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><span style="font-size:16pt;" lang="AR-LB"><font size="3">Regards, </font></span><br><span style="font-size:16pt;" lang="AR-LB"><font size="3">Aya Raafat El Gebeely.<br>B.Sc. of Computer Science and Information Systems<br>Faculty of Computers and Information - Cairo University<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ayagebeely.blogspot.com/"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Land of Ideas</span></a><br></font><b><font color="#ff0000"><span style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;"></span><br></font></b></span><style></style><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;">*** It's Never Late to Pursue your Dream ***</span></b></font><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;"></span></p> <br><div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Aya El Gebeely <ayagebealy@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> ubuntu-eg@lists.ubuntu.com; thelinuxer@gmail.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, September 26, 2009 11:15:28 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Installation Festival<br></font><br> AA Aya,<br>I have been in contact with TAs Mostafa Saad and Eslam Foad from the<br>CS department and we have agreed to contact the vice-deans as soon as<br>possible. Feel free to contact them along with the rest of the C2S<br>teams to see if we can arrange something and keep me in sync.<br><br>As for the hall, I do think that the halls you suggested would be more<br>suitable for organizing the sessions, however installing ubuntu on<br>machines of attendants would require a more open space, perhaps the<br>ground floor of the new building or the open ground in front of el<br>modarrag el kebeer, however this will likely require some serious<br>approvals from the dean, but I don't think it's going to be a major<br>problem if we arrange the fest to take place during the weekend in a<br>Friday or a Saturday.<br><br>Please feel free to reply with any opinion or suggestion you see fit.<br><br>Regards,<br>Mohammed<br><br>On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Aya El Gebeely <<a ymailto="mailto:ayagebealy@yahoo.com" href="mailto:ayagebealy@yahoo.com">ayagebealy@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Assalam Alikom,<br>><br>> Dear All,<br>> I've seen the recent mail about the event, that we might shift to FCI-CU<br>> ..<br>> Actually I was checking the feasibility of the event with one of my team<br>> mates in a team called "C2S Team" (C2S: Connect to Success), we used to<br>> reserve the biggest hall* in the faculty for our annual event, and if we can<br>> do so for the installation festival. However, the hall reservation is never<br>> an easy issue, you know the bureaucratic rules of Cairo university.<br>> Currently we are still investigating the issue, and whether this gonna<br>> affect the annual event that is made in the 2nd semester by the team or<br>> not.<br>> So this is a path, there is another path, that we may contact the faculty<br>> Dean directly, and present the idea firmly and in fascinating way then she<br>> may approve or not "anyway she is an open-minded person" .<br>> If Mohamed Gamal has another connections in the faculty that the festival<br>> can be made under its name, this will be another good solution too.<br>> The biggest halls in the faculty are :<br>> - Abd El Mone'em El Shafe'ey Hall --> Capacity 500+ person<br>> - El Modarrag El Kebeer "bad logistics" --> Capacity 500+ Person (It's used<br>> for the lectures)<br>> Or Seminar 1 room -> capacity 100 to 120 person at most.<br>> Meanwhile this is what I have, if I reached further good solutions with C2S<br>> team or any better idea , I'll update you isAllah<br>><br>><br>> Best Regards,<br>> Aya Raafat El Gebeely.<br>> B.Sc. of Computer Science<br>> Faculty of Computers and Information - Cairo University<br>> Land of Ideas<br>><br>> *** It's Never Late to Pursue your Dream ***<br>><br>><br>><br></div></div><div style="position:fixed"></div></div><br> </body></html>