This is an intro about the project by the founder Mohamed el Rafie: "CORD is a social enterprise incubated by Nahdet AlMahrousa aiming to seed commercialized science concept. The CompetitionOfRobotDesign started on 2007 as a student activity evolving into a social business now using 5 profitable and non-profitable approaches. Smart entertainment & technology awareness activities are our missions to reach the Commercialized science Aim. CORD has four profitable arms; Advertising solutions through robot's and dynamic interactive devices, training for kids and adults; the kids section is aimed to induce more productive and resourceful mindsets for the participants through the experience of building a small robot out of nothing, and for adults; the training is mainly based on teaching interpersonal skills through the perfect experience of building a robot while working in a team in one day. the 3rd Arm would be the technology events which is done by involving the public in simple open sessions and then let them build their own dreams in realities using motivational techniques and goals. the final profitable Arm is the production part; it involves two main products as a start; mechatronic games to be used in game rooms and robot kits to be used in our training and to be sold for the public with online support. in brief, the non-profitable arm involves many volunteering based activities however; three of them rises above all; An Annual Open competition for robot building raising the concept of robot building sports, Robo-Academies founded in many engineering campuses and "Best thing out of nothing" project aimed to under privileged kids. As CORD started from a volunteer's dream so, we give special attention to the non-profitable arm of the CORDian dream as it's also where we find the innovative minds that keeps us moving and where we publicize for our work. " I am very passionate myself about this project and we are doing our best to make it one of a kind and would like to see this partnership in reality soon if the team found it beneficial. Regards; Karim Fayez +20122202526 sent via android <div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 9, 2011 3:17 AM, "Karim Fayez" <<a href="mailto:karim.fayez@gmail.com">karim.fayez@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Dear all; > This issue is a very interesting one. > There is a company called CORD "Competition Of Robot Design" that I am a > consulting partner in and its founder is passionate about ubuntu too. Will > send a brief description of the project in this thread and will add it to > tomorrow's meeting. > I was thinking of forming some form of partnership between Ubuntu-eg and > CORD in the following ways: > 1- developing Linux embedded systems under FLOSS for their robots and be > considered as a software provider or developer which will give us more > exposure and publicize FLOSS and open source as an open learning project. > 2- participating in their projects directed towards kids to direct young > generations towards Linux and open source. > 3- having a team with the name of Ubuntu-eg in their competitions which will > lead to more exposure and media coverage that we need. > 4- we get a free chance to enhance our skills in that sector of robotics and > thus have the ability to offer wider range of solutions and gaining more > knowledge and experience while doing what we are passionate about. > > We might have weakness in the hardware knowledge but I got that point > settled already with CORD. > > please share your ideas and more ways to maximize the mutual gains we can > get from this partnership. Waiting for a big discussion about the subject > here and in the meeting isA. > Have a good night. > > Best regards; > Karim Fayez > +20122202526 > sent via android </div>