<div dir="ltr">@Samar, <div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, I think Ahmed and Osama are right. However, I don't want to put you down, but I've had an experience with talking to a facebook group that had a *generic* name about Egypt and open source, I've removed some names not to be insulting anyone though :D,<br>
here is what was said in the conversation, it dates back to 16 Jan 2011 :) --again, this is not meant to be putting you down and it doesn't necessarily reflect how all other communities think, however it gives a basic image of what you are up to, so that you can prepare your self :D</div>
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AA<br><br>Dear ******,<br><br>First of all, this is my mail <img class="emote_img" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/blank.gif" alt=":D" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; height: 16px; vertical-align: top; width: 16px; background-image: url(http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/y5/r/JkUnaUKIb1j.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; bottom: 1px; margin-bottom: -2px; position: relative; background-position: -48px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "> <a href="mailto:m.fawzy.linux@gmail.com">m.fawzy.linux@gmail.com</a>, kindly add me <img class="emote_img" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/blank.gif" alt=":D" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; height: 16px; vertical-align: top; width: 16px; background-image: url(http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/y5/r/JkUnaUKIb1j.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; bottom: 1px; margin-bottom: -2px; position: relative; background-position: -48px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><br>
<br>second, I wanted to know more about this initiates as a whole coz I'm interested in helpiiiiiiiiiiiiing <img class="emote_img" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/blank.gif" alt=":D" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; height: 16px; vertical-align: top; width: 16px; background-image: url(http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/y5/r/JkUnaUKIb1j.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; bottom: 1px; margin-bottom: -2px; position: relative; background-position: -48px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "> but kindly try to answer, this question while replying (I would be really grateful if you took the time to reply <img class="emote_img" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/blank.gif" alt=":)" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; height: 16px; vertical-align: top; width: 16px; background-image: url(http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/y5/r/JkUnaUKIb1j.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; bottom: 1px; margin-bottom: -2px; position: relative; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "> ) "why just another community! why not eg-lug, linux-ac, ubuntu-eg or whatever, alraedy there are many other communities that exist, and even some of which are students focused like IShare (<a href="http://ishare-eg.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(59, 89, 152); text-decoration: none; ">http://IShare-eg.org/</a>), <br>
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this community is mainly focused on 'embedded linux' ... which I was not able to find any help about from any other egyptian community.<br>we're interested more on stuff like :Openembedded -><a href="http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/Main_Page" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(59, 89, 152); text-decoration: none; ">http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/Main_Page</a><br>
open moko -> <a href="http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(59, 89, 152); text-decoration: none; ">http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page</a><br>poky -> <a href="http://pokylinux.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(59, 89, 152); text-decoration: none; ">http://pokylinux.org/</a><br>
and other topics like these .. which are important for our specialty; biomedical <img class="emote_img" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/blank.gif" alt=":(" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; height: 16px; vertical-align: top; width: 16px; background-image: url(http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/y5/r/JkUnaUKIb1j.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; bottom: 1px; margin-bottom: -2px; position: relative; background-position: -16px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><br>
besides .. for myself, I do not like these communities which are focused on 'administration' , 'GUI', 'ready-for-use apps' and "UBUNTU" : vista of linux !!<br>I don't mean these topics are not important .. just not my edge <img class="emote_img" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/blank.gif" alt=":D" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; height: 16px; vertical-align: top; width: 16px; background-image: url(http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/y5/r/JkUnaUKIb1j.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; bottom: 1px; margin-bottom: -2px; position: relative; background-position: -48px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><br>
I did not find help in finding : kernel compilation, kernel modules programming, unix shell. I did not even find how to 'develop open source software' .. most of them are focused on administration, so we need another community for 'development' .. specially 'embedded'<br>
me and some others are using linux for 4 years, and really it was hard for us to know about embedded linux .. so via this community we'll share what we know and spread this, what I think, new field in the egyptian linux communities <img class="emote_img" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/blank.gif" alt=":D" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; height: 16px; vertical-align: top; width: 16px; background-image: url(http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/y5/r/JkUnaUKIb1j.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; bottom: 1px; margin-bottom: -2px; position: relative; background-position: -48px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><br>
please I'm w8ing for feedback about our scope </div></li></ul></div></div></div></div></li></ul></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>:) ..... simply they are all different and all think that they can't merge with others not to loose their focus :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Mahmoud :)</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:57 PM, OSAMA MONGY <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:osama.op@gmail.com">osama.op@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr">I mean for ahmad's openion <br><div class="im"><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'm totally supporting :)<br><br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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