Hi everyone, Let me try to clear some of the confusion since I attended the original meeting:
Mansoura: It was mentioned that we cannot start by a mission critical site, it would be a good idea to start operating in a smaller city as a *pilot project*. Mansoura was suggested, the minister +1'ed it, and attendants +1'ed it too. I personally like the Mansoura choice since it does have lots of open-source oriented youth. It was suggested we start by the University, and I recently knew Mansoura university is already strongly open-source oriented. This will help this pilot conversion project succeed, which will help the overall thing to succeed. Being the "capital of open-source" is just marketing buzz you can ignore The minister made the point that we should "*manufacture* software, rather than being only resellers". It is understandable why he would feel that way of course, however, there is still some confusion because open-source by definition, and of its strongest merits, is being able to stand on the shoulders of giants. I don't think this will be a problem though. Please correct me, my understanding is that there is now a push for creating an excellence center for open-source, that will push forward interest in open-source, lay down strategies ..etc. And that will attract, foster and grow local foss oriented companies. Thanks On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Ahmed Toulan <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes that's what I am talking about, it's really confusing to me. I am not > sure what they actually mean by that. > About the buy and sell thing, we should produce products and services based > on OSS. Think of it like we will have companies like RedHat and Canonical > here is Egypt. >
