<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hello Stephan, It would be a pleasure to meet you here in Egypt. :D Regarding Sekem, as far as I can understand there are two main points <ul> <li>Introducing Open Source philosophy to Sekem staff and Sekem school</li> </ul> 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. <ul> <li>Help Sekem to migrate from closed source to open source software</li> </ul> Given that we introduced the idea to them and what are the advantages of moving to open source, we can suggest them several software companies that offer professional migration services, and our contribution in that process would be training their staff for one or two sessions, in which they may save the training costs. Also it is fair if they mention the credit our groups for helping them, so we can include this project as one of our success stories. Let's not speculate too much, and contact them. If you don't mind please provide their contacts info so we can proceed. Thank you Stephan Mohamed Saudi On 08/05/2010 09:19 PM, Stephan Hermann wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4C5B00A8.30508@denkmalquer.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi Ahmed, Ahmed Toulan schrieb: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> that sounds good - I hope that Sekem will understand the philosophy of open source so a good and sustainable relationship can begin! :-) Mahmoud asked about the possible ways to help... brilliant question! :-) So far I haven't got any good answers... *g* At the moment I get in contact to several people at Sekem and try to find out details about the current conditions (company infrastructure, it infrastructure, it specialists, ...). At the same time I try to get an invitation from Sekem to visit them in order to learn much about them. As I mentioned I plan to come to Egypt in November. Maybe somebody of you is interested in getting involved into the "Sekem open source task force" ;-) For example we could try to make a "first contact" between Ubuntu-EG and Sekem even before I will visit Egypt. Best regards from Freiburg Stephan </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>