<div dir="ltr">Hi Stephan, Welcome to our mailing list:) Sorry for being away the last couple of weeks. IMO, I guess we can help Sekem find their way to the opensource world as long as they understand the community spirit and know that they need to give something back to the community. Best regards, Ahmed Toulan. <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:31 AM, mahmoud mohamed <<a href="mailto:eng.ma7moud.ebrahem@gmail.com">eng.ma7moud.ebrahem@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr">great ideas and i think we are ready to help.<div>but I still confused about how we will help on that. <div class="gmail_quote">2010/7/30 Stephan Hermann <<a href="mailto:stephan.hermann@denkmalquer.net" target="_blank">stephan.hermann@denkmalquer.net</a>><div><div></div><div class="h5"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">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: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEKEM" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEKEM</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Abouleish" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Abouleish</a> <a href="http://www.sekem.com/" target="_blank">http://www.sekem.com/</a> ...and because pictures are saying more than thousand words: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDy1NBUzUSc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDy1NBUzUSc</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXbuC-UJ5vw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXbuC-UJ5vw</a> (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: <div><div></div><div>> Hi everybody, > > my name is Stephan, I live in Freiburg (Germany) and I take part in a > group of volunteers called Linux4Afrika (<a href="http://www.linux4afrika.de" target="_blank">http://www.linux4afrika.de</a>) > 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 (<a href="http://www.sekem.com" target="_blank">http://www.sekem.com</a>) > 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 > -- Ubuntu-eg mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-eg@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">Ubuntu-eg@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-eg" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-eg</a> </div></div></blockquote></div></div></div> </div></div> -- Ubuntu-eg mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-eg@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-eg@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-eg" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-eg</a> </blockquote></div> </div>